The Prediction

De: Faith Gardner

Narrado por: Raquel Beattie

A new marriage. A perfect home. A machine that says it's all a lie.

Welcome to Silicon Valley, where the weather is perfect, the income is high and Rowena Snyder is miserable.

A transplant from New York, Rowena moved into her husband Jacob's idyllic childhood home with their new baby. But suburbia isn't Rowena's cup of Starbucks. And she's got serious anxiety and depression to boot.

Jacob, worried about their marriage, scores a new product currently in beta testing from his tech job: Maxine, a "digital friend" that bonds with an individual by continually gathering their personal data. Along with functioning like an upscale digital assistant, Maxine has "advice" and "prediction" modes that have shown promise for patients with mental health issues.

To Rowena's shock, the device turns out to be not just helpful, but eerily accurate, predicting events before they occur. It's a godsend until Maxine offers a series of increasingly bone-chilling predictions that will change Rowena's life forever.

This domestic suspense novel set in a near-future dystopia asks, who do you trust more—your mind, your man, or your machine?

©2022 Faith Gardner (P)2026 Faith Gardner

My first audiobook and I’m glad I chose it

I can’t say I had anything I disliked. I went in with low expectations and was extremely surprised. I didn’t see where the story was going, it was a new fun story line, and I had a hard time pausing between chapters. It was so interesting. I’ll suggest those that like books like gone girl.

Not predictable but not great

Ending felt abrupt but the concept was interesting. Boring characters and too many red herrings.

Loved it

A little predictable in some parts, but overall an amazing story. The end was a little weird, but I like weird

Praise Maxine

I need a Maxine in my life to take care of me. Even if she was creepy, I would love her

Psychological thriller perfection

I loved this book so much. I listened to it in the car to and from school rides with my 12-year-old son, and while there were a couple times I had to tell him earmuffs, we both still LOVED this book. It was twisted and kept us guessing. We both have some theories that may or may not have been true, the ending left room for several of them to be true. Which we liked. We can’t wait to listen to the next near-future book by Faith Gardner.