I really, totally and completely, enjoy Ms. Waines books, and I love the surprises that she cooks-up for her readers. Really amazing fun for those of us who enjoy psychological thrillers!
Book 1 of the Dr. Willoughby series ("Inside the Whispers") was wonderfully strange, intriguing and puzzling--as was this one! Since there is a double narrative (first person from the view of Dr Willoughby [Sam] and Rosie (her patient) we get to know more than Sam does, at certain parts of the story. But it does no good for the Reader to mumble warnings to Sam...
When Rosie comes to Sam's office, we see a young woman who is trying to regain her memory after a van accident that claimed three of her friends' lives. The van plunged into a lake, but Rosie escaped because she was riding in the back. Rosie seems overly enthusiastic one moment, then she is plunged into total dejection the next. She seems to have child-like ways of speaking, yet she is 33 years old. As soon as the treatment begins, Sam notices that Rosie is overly-clingy, "needy," and wants to extend the barriers of the doctor-patient relationship.
Of course, we Readers are all allowed into Rosie's head to know the extremes of her thoughts about Sam. Rosie can be charming, but she is also manipulative and tries to control the interaction of her sessions. And she is harboring secrets too, ones that she doesn’t share with Sam—or the Readers either, until later in the book.
So there is a shadow of deceit about Rosie, and we soon see what she is capable of. The amazing thing about the characters, as presented by Ms. Waines, is that we can't totally dislike Rosie; we do appreciate and sympathize with a troubled woman who has been in therapy nearly all of her life, and we understand the elements of her background that hurt her so deeply.
This is a psychological thriller that builds in intensity, as we learn more and more about Rosie--and we hope that Sam can see the reality--and soon!
I have already loaded Book 3 of the series ("Perfect Bones") onto my Kindle. I thoroughly recommend this book! Also, as a fan of Ms. Waines, I must suggest reading "No Longer Safe," a stand-alone with such a killer of an ending--I guarantee it will come at you totally unexpectedly! It is a WOW and the first of her books, which cemented my "reader relationship" with this author! She's great! Enjoy!
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