Grace Blades is a psychologist, but that is only one very small part of who she is.
I found the book compelling, but the most interesting part is where the reader is treated to Grace's upbringing. Her father murders her mother and then kills himself. So begins her journey through multiple foster homes and what she learns from all the people she meets along the way.
At one of her last foster homes, her foster mother takes in 3 other children, whose parents were killed while in a cult. There is something not quite right with the two boys and girl, and when another foster child in the home is killed, Grace knows who did it.
Fast forward 20 years and Grace is in private practice. A new client walks in, states that he is interested in her paper published years ago on dealing with killers in a family. The man bolts after a few minutes. The next day she is visited by homicide detectives who tell her they have a victim with her business card in his shoe... only his name is not the name he used with her.
The book rocks back and forth between her remembering her life and the things that are happening in the present. She basically starts investigating on her own, as she now knows who her client really was... and the past jumps up and slaps her in the face.
Her memories were much more captivating than her investigation. That part of the book overstepped what I could imagine as actually happening. While good, I don't think it was as good as the author's Alex Delaware series. But he did merit a mention and a very tiny cameo appearance.
This book was furnished by NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine - Ballantine Books in exchange for an honest review.
I found the book compelling, but the most interesting part is where the reader is treated to Grace's upbringing. Her father murders her mother and then kills himself. So begins her journey through multiple foster homes and what she learns from all the people she meets along the way.
At one of her last foster homes, her foster mother takes in 3 other children, whose parents were killed while in a cult. There is something not quite right with the two boys and girl, and when another foster child in the home is killed, Grace knows who did it.
Fast forward 20 years and Grace is in private practice. A new client walks in, states that he is interested in her paper published years ago on dealing with killers in a family. The man bolts after a few minutes. The next day she is visited by homicide detectives who tell her they have a victim with her business card in his shoe... only his name is not the name he used with her.
The book rocks back and forth between her remembering her life and the things that are happening in the present. She basically starts investigating on her own, as she now knows who her client really was... and the past jumps up and slaps her in the face.
Her memories were much more captivating than her investigation. That part of the book overstepped what I could imagine as actually happening. While good, I don't think it was as good as the author's Alex Delaware series. But he did merit a mention and a very tiny cameo appearance.
This book was furnished by NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine - Ballantine Books in exchange for an honest review.
I'm not a Kellerman fan but I do try the books once in a while, I don't like the Alex Delaware series for various reasons, mainly too many descriptions and the stories are usually dry.
So I found this one to be dry reading, a story needs to start out capturing the readers attention and I almost quit after just 25 pages but I plugged on, the story takes forever to get started and I consider it 'dry' reading when it takes pages and pages of descriptions or 'remembering' to get anywhere with the main story, so I mainly just skipped and skimmed this book, the main character is no one to care about and if a psychologist is anything like her I wouldn't want them for my Doctor, she is not a caring person.
I'm just getting very tired of every author thinking they must have a woman as the main character then come up with something as stupid as this one and trying to make them into a superhero, I don't believe every Doctor is going to conduct their own investigation so I find these storylines tedious
So I found this one to be dry reading, a story needs to start out capturing the readers attention and I almost quit after just 25 pages but I plugged on, the story takes forever to get started and I consider it 'dry' reading when it takes pages and pages of descriptions or 'remembering' to get anywhere with the main story, so I mainly just skipped and skimmed this book, the main character is no one to care about and if a psychologist is anything like her I wouldn't want them for my Doctor, she is not a caring person.
I'm just getting very tired of every author thinking they must have a woman as the main character then come up with something as stupid as this one and trying to make them into a superhero, I don't believe every Doctor is going to conduct their own investigation so I find these storylines tedious
