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    The Good Sister
    The Good Sister
    The Good Sister
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    The Good Sister

    Written by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Narrated by Allyson Ryan

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    In New York Times bestselling authorWendy Corsi Staub's electrifying new thriller,a mother races to save her daughter beforeher darkest nightmare comes true.

    Sacred Sisters Catholic girls' school has hardly changed since Jen Archer was a student. Jen hoped her older daughter would thrive here. Instead, shy, studious Carley becomes the target of vicious bullies. But the real danger at Sacred Sisters goes much deeper.

    The only person Carley can talk to is ""Angel,"" a kindred spirit she met online. Carley tells Angel everything—about her younger sister, about school, about the sudden death of her former best friend. Angel is her lifeline. And Angel is closer than she knows.

    When another schoolgirl is found dead, Jen's unease grows. There are too many coincidences, too many links to her past. Every instinct tells her that Carley is the next target. For someone is intent on punishing the guilty, teaching the ultimate lesson in how to fear . . . and how to die.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9780062222398
    Author

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    USA Today and New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than seventy novels and has twice been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in the New York City suburbs with her husband and their two children.

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    • 5/5
      Shauna Reid is my hero! My superhero! I recently came to the end of a major weight-loss journey (90 lbs lost, woohoo!!) and ended up stumbling a lot along the way and even after I had reached my goal. I wasn't prepared for all of the emotional issues I would have to tackle when it came to dealing with my weight, losing the weight and learning to be happy with who I am, imperfections and all. It's still a struggle. But reading Shauna's own personal journey with her amazing wit and flat-out honesty has really encouraged me to keep moving forward and to take the time to get to love the body I have. I know I'm not alone, that I'm not the only person who has experienced what I've been through and what I still go through. The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl started as a blog (which Shauna still runs today) and chronicles the years spent going from 351 lbs to 175 lbs. But it's also so much more than that. The weight loss is front and center but really, where her story becomes so inspiring, is when she begins to blossom into a confident woman ready to create her own adventures as opposed to waiting for life to happen. That's the kind of person I want to be. I used to think "Once I lose the weight, then I'll be able to...." Shauna started that way too, but then she realized what a waste of precious time that really was! So she took some risks. She moved from Australia to Scotland, attended cardio classes at her local gym, traveled Europe, met up with friends more often and stopped obsessing over what and how much she was eating. And along the way, she found her self several sizes smaller, happy with a life full of great family and friends, and also managed to stumble into the man of her dreams. This is such a great book for any woman to read, whether you've struggled with weight or are just looking for inspiration to get out and live life. I loved this book and am now a subscriber to Shauna's blog :) Great read!
    • 5/5
      This is just a wonderful book. Whilst it is primarily about Shauna's weight loss journey, it is so much more than that, and it is, to boot, just wonderfully written. Vivid, funny and moving by turns. Read the opening chapter and tell me this girl can't write. I dare you.
    • 4/5
      Shauna Reid started writing a blog about her fear and sadness at being overweight. Her blog chronicles her trials and tribulations, successes, set-backs and travels. She went from hiding behind food to running in races and around the world. It was a journey of self-discovery as well as weight loss. She's funny, poignant, silly and all-together inspirational. I really enjoyed the book -- it was great to see someone take control with humor and grace.
    • 4/5
      What an inspirational weight-loss memoir. Shauna is really someone to want to emulate in so many ways, because her weight-loss journey took place internally as well as externally and really left her transformed for the better. She is happy and healthy by the end of her 6-year weight loss journey. She seems like both a superhero and a regular person, all rolled into one, because it is super-heroic for regular people to become satisfied with their lives and their bodies and to make healthy choices on an on-going basis. A very uplifting, inspirational book.
    • 4/5
      Like it allot. Good twist in the story.
      The person who did the voice of Carley sounded like Jane Brady from the Brady Brunch, it made me kinda laugh every time I heard it.
    • 4/5
      A very sweet, funny book. Since I'm on a diet it caught my eye, but it's more than that. It's a romance and a story of a girl finding out who she is. I've lent my copy to others and everyone has liked it, even my skinny friends.
    • 4/5
      I loved this book! At the start we meet Shauna 23 years old and 350 pounds. She is unhappy and unhealthy and decides to make a change. Joining Weight Watchers as the first and I think the hardest step for her - they have to get extra weights to put on the scale to weigh her. After the meeting she cries all the way home. The Amazing Adventures of dietgirl is the blog she starts to chronicle her journey - exposing herself and staying anonymous at the same time. The book spans 4 years and 175.5 pounds lost. Shauna is funny, smart and this book was a joy to read.


      May 2013
    • 4/5
      Like many readers, I picked this book up in the hopes of getting some inspiration from Shauna's story. It's hard not to be inspired by someone who lost so much weight the hard, old-fashioned way through diet and exercise. Shauna spent years and years, not weeks and months, to lose her weight, which feels more real than what we so often see in the media. In this blog turned book, Shauna chronicles more about the head space she was in over the course of five or six years. Yes, she learned to eat healthy. Yes, she started to learn to exercise and love it. However, the biggest factor always seems to be how she handled it when things went wrong.This journey was not a fast one for Shauna, which I could appreciate. It seems like too many people yo-yo up and down with their weight at insane speeds. Realistically, it was nice to see what one person did, in a reasonable fashion, to lose a large amount of weight. In fact, I mostly appreciated that her life went on and she lived it! It can seem too unreasonable to expect someone to just stop their life to focus solely on weight (I guess that is unless you're on a TV show or something), so I thought the directions her life took--moving to the UK--was an interesting reality to her story. On the whole, this is an inspiring book if you want a realistic look at the ups and downs of one person's weight loss journey. There isn't necessarily a lot about how she did it, outside of the common sense "eat less and exercise" mantra, but it does give you a lot about her mindset and how it changed over time. Overall, this was a much more entertaining read than a mere self help book. This is one of those books that anyone could read to appreciate.
    • 3/5
      Really not sure how to rate this story. On the one hand, it was suspenseful and well worth the listen/read. On the other hand, there were sections that dragged, and I came close to giving up on it. The last quarter of the book was exceptional, the middle too wordy and - to be honest - frustrating in the pacing of the unfolding events. The character development was particularly good. If rating the last quarter = 5/5, the middle half = 2/5, so ended up giving it 3/5. Hang in there, if you feel like I did at one point where I thought I might give up. The ending is worth it.
    • 4/5
      I love Wendi Corsi Staub's books, and this was another great read. Carley is a teenager being bullied by the girls in her Catholic high school. She transferred from another school where her best friend, Nicki attends. Life is just not the same without her best friend. Soon Carley begins to receive text messages and "Peeps" (think Facebook) messages from her best friend that aren't so nice. Carley begins a new online "friendship" with Angel, who may or may not be who or what she seems. Great story about teenagers these days and how social media has replaced actual face to face communication - sometimes to the detriment of our relationships.
    • 2/5
      Similar in plot and style to a Mary Higgins Clark novel of mad men, and missing and murdered girls and women, this felt like a throwback to the thrillers and mysteries I read in my youth. Likewise I think this probably would have been more satisfying to me when I was younger. This was pretty heavy-handed with its message of getting off the internet and talking, which could be (is probably) true, but also a bit antiquated in the face of the ways we communicate these days. The execution of the crimes and the motives and rational were pretty thin, but I did like the interactions between parents and tens. That’s probably a knee jerk reaction to all the absentee parents in fiction whenever teenagers are involved, so, yay parenting!
    • 5/5
      The Good SisterBy Wendi Corsica StaubMy " in a nutshell" summary...Carley is being bullied at school...manipulated online...and an old vendetta is leaving bodies everywhere!My thoughts after reading this book...This book was just what I was in the mood for on a hot muggy steamy summer day. The book alternates between allowing us to read pages in a diary from quite a few years ago...to Carley's life in a new school...to Angel...who is mysterious, shrouded, hidden and apparently has a vendetta towards tons of people in this town. This book is a true chiller...creepy...a tad predictable...but oh so much fun to read! Once I started reading...I truly could not stop.What I loved about this book...There is evil...tons of it...in this book. There is a weird evil mom and bullies and one of the nuns at Carley's school isn't so nice either...wait until you read about her! It's just filled with yummy terror. You never know who is going to get "knocked off" next! Or why...At first there isn't really any rhyme or reason to the deaths...and it's a mystery so you really wouldn't want me to tell you anything juicy about it anyway! My reviewer's lips are sealed!The best part of this book was the anticipation of what was going to happen next....there were hints and characters that I knew must have a connection...so...that part of the book...trying to figure out the why of everything...was awesome!What I didn't love...My heart went out to Carley...she was sad and lost and the constant target of the mean girls. Final thoughts...I found this book to be scary, provocative and unputdownable. It is the perfect book for beach or plane. Time will fly by as you try to figure out who did it and why! Again...a little bit predictable...but still fun to read...when you are not scared out of your mind!