The Pact
The gripping thriller for readers who love dark academia and shocking twists
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4.1 • 663 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
'The Secret History for Millennials' Belinda Bauer
A golden summer, and six talented teenagers are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, leaving three strangers dead.
18-year-old Megan takes the blame for the crime, leaving her friends to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a 'favour', payable on her release from prison.
Twenty years later Megan is free.
It is payback time.
And her friends start disappearing, one by one . . .
Richard & Judy bestseller Sharon Bolton is back, with her twistiest thriller yet.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We love a pacy thriller that’s not afraid to throw its characters into some extreme predicaments—so this was incredibly fun reading from the first page to the last. It follows six students at an exclusive English school who are responsible for the death of a mother and her two young daughters when an end-of-term dare goes horrifically wrong. One of the group agrees to takes sole blame on condition that she can demand a favour from each of her friends once she’s released from prison. Two decades later, scarred by incarceration and public vilification, she’s ready to collect that debt in increasingly—and imaginatively—torturous ways. Your heart in your mouth, you’ll find yourself racing through this twisting, tightly plotted skewering of privilege and entitlement in one sitting.
Customer Reviews
Good read
Slow start, but sensational read! Would definitely recommend! The jumping between characters was confusing, but great plot twists!
Lost interest, couldn’t finish reading
Felt like there was something there at the start but I felt too drawn out after.
Loved the book, the ending felt very rushed
Sticking with 4 stars because I enjoyed most of the book and read it in almost one sitting, but was very disappointed by the ending which felt like it had been rushed and left so many questions. A shame it didn’t do the rest of the book justice.