The Resentment is a psychological thriller by T.O. Paine. The story informs about a family that is under torment. Everyone has something to hide. Lauren has anger management issues and the dragon in her reawakens when her husband William falls off the bridge, losing his life. She blames the driver of a black Audi that had chased them. She continually sees black vehicles, and her paranoia overcomes any sense of security or decency. Her paranoia is fueled by restricted calls she receives concerning a card she must find and give to the caller.
Someone wanted a card that contained William's work, and they were willing to put Lauren's family through hell to get it. Get The Resentment to find out how each member of the family was trapped in their separate hell.

I enjoyed the plot. It was full of fresh events and changes of scenery. The story was told from Lauren's perspective, wife to William, Mason, their son, and Ryan's brother to William. Each perspective built the character and was a story by itself. The characters had so many shortcomings as well as their positive points. I found the story difficult to guess, and I was surprised by the outcome. The book contained issues of anger, alcoholism, cyber espionage, and the sexual orientation dilemma. The character's mental stability was manipulated and fear was instilled, especially in Lauren, who was being stalked by a guy who did not bother to hide.

I did not like the swear phrases. There were also repetitions of things that occurred. Neither of these was distracting while I read.

I rate this book 4 out of 5 stars. The plot was entertaining. It was a real thriller. I also applaud the author for maintaining such great suspense throughout the work. My favorite character was Ryan. He was strong and put effort into being better. He cared about his life, his relationship with his brother's family, and his fellow drunks.

I recommend this book to readers who love mystery, thrillers, horror, and crime. Readers with an interest in YA will love the work. Themes of family, technology, crime, and blame are highly focused on the work. There are gruesome events, most of them being precisely horror, such as kidnapping and deaths.

Thank you NetGalley and Tony Freeburg, Dark Swallow Books for the copy of The Resentment. I’m not sure this book was for me. The story was great, and I really liked Mason. I couldn’t connect with the writing style but the story was so good I kept reading. There were so many references to drinking and AA it got repetitive and tiresome for me. If you are looking for a good story and don’t mind a rather confusing timeline, you will probably enjoy this book. 3.5 stars rounded up to 4.

Fabulous! Well-written, good characterization, excellent plot, fantastic twist ending. This kept me guessing and reading way past my bed time. It started with a tense scene and never let up.

In this suspenseful story, a woman's perfect life is shattered when her husband is murdered and the woman is seemingly being shadowed by the culprits. It feels like there's a Hitchockian element of innocent person mistakenly thrust into the middle of something they don't understand, where she is supposed to possess knowledge she lacks. That's how I felt as a reader, as well. I was hooked, trying to figure out what was going on. Unexpected ending!

I really enjoyed this book! It had me hooked from the first chapter, and kept me on my toes the entire time!

Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC of The Resentment by T.O. Paine.

I have so many mixed feelings about this one and unfortunately not all of them are good. This did keep me reading and wanting to know what happened next and I did thoroughly enjoy the twist thrown in there. However, I started getting a little annoyed with some of the redundant seeing red in this. Yes, I get that it's a huge part of the story in itself but it was still a bit much in my opinion. The only other thing that bothered me just a little was the addiction aspect. Maybe since it's coming from a recovering addict myself but I just felt that every sentence regarding this was too cliched. I felt that the author did a little Google research on this and got the gist of it and threw in every main and cliched part about it, not all being right either. Again, I'm a little biased about this. If I am wrong and the Author has genuine experience with it, I apologize.

All in all, the book was a good, enjoyable read, just not my favorite.