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The Teacher: A shocking and gripping crime thriller – NOT for the faint-hearted!

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She lives with her family and black cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Hot Nate gets flirted with by the waitress and then spots Addie at the restaurant and talks about Addie's lyrical mind and their mutual love of Edgar Allan Poe a bunch to his wife.

The individual stories bounced from ‘back then’ to the present where DS Adrian Miles and DS Imogen Grey are investigating. The story that unfolds is one that quickly morphs into a sordid tale of bullying, stalking, abuse, revenge and murder. This new range of books which includes My Mummy and My Daddy is the perfect thank you gift for that special person in your life. Robbins also interviewed hundreds of other teachers nationwide who share their secrets, dramas, and joys. take that challenge, go on, you know you want to, you know friends who have read this and said its not a book to be missed.What took away from my overall satisfaction in this book is that I guessed almost from the start who was guilty and why, and then there was the gory violence that was quite grotesque and not something I like to read about. It travels backwards and forwards in time visiting multiple characters until it starts to settle down and the plot becomes clearer. Each thread tantalising interweaves and threatens to reveal only to pull away, ensuring the story is captivating and kept at a great pace. I can’t remember another book that is so deeply informed about the nobility, the rewards, and the struggles of the teaching profession. The disturbing story is narrated via the voices of Eve and Addie with chapters alternating between their points of view.

Alexandra Robbins is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and the Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (Goodreads Choice Awards). Robbins use[s] anecdotes from her subjects’ professional and private lives, interviews with others in the profession, and in this case her own experience working as a substitute at a middle school, to illustrate the myriad challenges teachers face. After being at the center of a school-wide scandal that resulted in a teacher being forced to resign, she is now a social pariah. When more deaths come to light, Miles and Grey face a race against time to work out why these gruesome murders are occurring and who is responsible. Although they are unrefined and bullish one trait they share is being wholly committed, even when the burden of their own demons are doing a terrific job of interfering with their better judgement.I advise going into this one as clueless to the plot line as possible and prepare to be blown to smithereens by a signature McFadden explosive ending that I suspect will leave readers reeling and discussing for some time. The Teacher began to make sense and I realised just how clever the author had been, she set the scene and then cunningly bought all the characters together in a dark and troubling tale. Alexandra Robbins, a journalist who has also worked as a teacher, paints a vivid portrait of the complexities of the job and its increasingly impossible expectations. Eve Bennett has the perfect life on the outside- a nice house, fulfilling career, attractive husband, and plenty of designer shoes, of course. This book is a lot darker than her previous ones, and the theme throughout is made even more scary by the fact that it’s believable and this sort of horrendous crime really does exist in real life.

Don't get me wrong, I 100% believe that she was a victim in her relationship with Nate, but the fact that she had absolutely no repercussions doesn't make sense. This is not something that is 'a little bit wrong', a matter of taste perhaps, in just a few places. I can’t take them seriously anymore and believe me, this hurts, because I really used to love her books. This is a story that immediately pulls you in and doesn’t let go until the last page … The story flowed so brilliantly and made me keep turning the pages; a thriller from beginning to end. It is fast-paced with shorter chapters that will have you hooked from the beginning and shocked at the end.It is cleverly written and with its great characters, subplots and gruesome murder scenes it is a book that you won’t want to put down (unless you don’t like reading about well described murder scenes). Granted I am a publishing industry professional, and hence particularly aware of correct punctuation. Then Kenzie shows up at Addie's house and apologizes for being such a huge bitch and tells Addie SHE was in a relationship with SP Nate when she was FOURTEEN and knows Addie is also being abused because SP Nate gave them both the same shitty poem (which she saw in the lunchroom) and they had to break up when Addie had her Santa Tuttle scandal so that's why she hates Addie so much. Readers should be forewarned that THE TEACHER accentuates dark themes including abuse of power and sexual molestation of minors some may find disturbing. The police stop investigating because Eve isn’t actually dead and they assume SP Nate just left town without a trace.

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