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The Blind
by A.F. Brady
TW: Mental health difficulties, mentions of suicide, domestic abuse.
I received a free copy of this book from Harper Collins in exchange for an honest review.
Sam James is a psychology in a psychiatric unit, and she’s a gone one at that. But even though Sam helps people all day, she can’t seem to help herself and is struggling with alcoholism and an abusive relationship. When nee patient Richard shows up, seemingly perfectly normal and in no need of psychiatric help, he starts to burrow his way into Sam’s mind and her life begins falling apart.
This book is a quiet, slow burn of a thriller and its mood definitely suits October/November and Halloween time. Straight away, the reader is sucked into Sam’s world of the walls of her psychiatric unit, and the stool of her favourite bar. I felt like a lot of scenes in Sam’s workplace felt very real, and authentic and I say this is due to author AF Brady actually having a degree in psychology and counselling herself and she knew how to really write those scenes as if they actually happened.
Even though this is strictly a thriller, I enjoyed some talk around mental health. Sam is funny because she knows very well what her issues are, she just can’t seem to really confront them herself and/or she almost doesn’t want help. The discussions in the group sessions around mental health stigma and domestic abuse were powerful though, and may even help some people who knows.
I would have liked more at the end of this book. I felt like i was asking some more questions, and not everything was tied up for me. I also would have liked more flashbacks about Sam’s mom. We do know about her briefly, and get an idea of what happened there but I think some flashback scenes would have worked well. I also would have liked Richard’s truth talks to have happened quicker in the book too. The first half, almost three quarters of the book is juts Sam’s crazy spiral out of control.
This book is a pretty fast, intersting read and it did keep me hooked throughout. It’s the type you can fly through in a couple of days!
I received a free copy of this book from Harper Collins in exchange for an honest review.
Sam James is a psychology in a psychiatric unit, and she’s a gone one at that. But even though Sam helps people all day, she can’t seem to help herself and is struggling with alcoholism and an abusive relationship. When nee patient Richard shows up, seemingly perfectly normal and in no need of psychiatric help, he starts to burrow his way into Sam’s mind and her life begins falling apart.
This book is a quiet, slow burn of a thriller and its mood definitely suits October/November and Halloween time. Straight away, the reader is sucked into Sam’s world of the walls of her psychiatric unit, and the stool of her favourite bar. I felt like a lot of scenes in Sam’s workplace felt very real, and authentic and I say this is due to author AF Brady actually having a degree in psychology and counselling herself and she knew how to really write those scenes as if they actually happened.
Even though this is strictly a thriller, I enjoyed some talk around mental health. Sam is funny because she knows very well what her issues are, she just can’t seem to really confront them herself and/or she almost doesn’t want help. The discussions in the group sessions around mental health stigma and domestic abuse were powerful though, and may even help some people who knows.
I would have liked more at the end of this book. I felt like i was asking some more questions, and not everything was tied up for me. I also would have liked more flashbacks about Sam’s mom. We do know about her briefly, and get an idea of what happened there but I think some flashback scenes would have worked well. I also would have liked Richard’s truth talks to have happened quicker in the book too. The first half, almost three quarters of the book is juts Sam’s crazy spiral out of control.
This book is a pretty fast, intersting read and it did keep me hooked throughout. It’s the type you can fly through in a couple of days!