Book Review

The Seer

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The Seer
by Martha Harris

Bobbi Wheeler is a psychiatrist who uses her psychic abilities to help her patients deal with depression and grief. This ability to know her patients’ history and inner thoughts through a simple “touch” is the reason behind her successful therapy sessions with satisfied clients.

Bobbi doesn’t always view her abilities as a gift, but a curse, because not all of her dreams are pleasant. She saw her grandfather’s death in a dream when she was young child and tried to prevent it but couldn’t. This started her feelings of helplessness whenever she dreams about dangers involving people she encountered and touched by chance.

While she may know the ways in dealing with emotional pain, she is also somehow battling with her own frailties and inner turmoil, making her long for the ocean and the pleasant things about it to give her peace. It is in one of these trips that she meets Lance Wolfe, a nonbeliever in psychics and a widower who blames himself for the death of his wife in a car accident. His guilt somehow hinders him from loving another woman again. Nonetheless, Bobbi opens his heart once more, but not completely. He seems to have the gift, as it is with him that Bobbi learns she can communicate using thoughts alone and go through someone else’s psychic’s mind.

In one of her visits to Lance’s house in Belford, Bobbi feels like she’s been inside a man who gave her the most horrifying nightmare ever. This man—who for a time she mistook as one of her patients, Tobias Emerson—murders a couple in her dreams. This man has the ability to control minds and although she is able to go inside the dream and prevent him from doing the crime, the man prevails over her and goes ahead with the carnage. After the police get involved, the man has only one thing on his mind—killing her.

About the Author

Martha Harris holds a degree in occupational therapy. She has been writing poems, short stories, and novels since she was in sixth grade.

(2011, paperback, 122 pages)

My Review

I didn’t think that I would be able to get into this book but once I started reading it I couldn’t put it down.  I loved the characters in this book.  The author did a good job at making the characters relate able and easy liked.  She also did a good job at capturing human emotions with the things the characters went through.  I loved the ending and was actually sad that the book was so short.  I really did fall in love with the characters and I also loved how to she told what happened to each of the characters over the years.  I don’t usually read books over again but this one that I am sure I will read again and keep because it was such a great book.  If you are looking for a great mystery book with a love story thrown in than this is the book for you!

***FTC- I received a complimentary copy of (Book Title) as a member of the Dorrance Publishing Book Review Team.  Visit dorrancebookstore.com to learn how you can become a member of the Book Review Team. The opinions expressed in this review are mine and only mine.

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Book Review-Who Is The Girl In The Picture

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by Kimberly Ann Gehret Herman

Who is the girl in the picture Sam found in Erin’s attic? Why does she seem to be playing some sort of sick and tortuous game with Sam and her friends? And who is Lee Stevens? What does he have to do with all of this?

The gang sets out to find the answers and solve the mystery behind the unusual and paranormal happenings that have begun haunting their lives since Sam unearthed a picture of a girl who eerily resembles Erin, but whom no one seems to know. It seems only Erin’s parents can provide any clues to the mysterious and frightening occurrences, but now they’ve disappeared for parts unknown!

Will they return before events escalate to a lethal level? Will the group keep from turning on one another as they race against time to find the solution and return their lives to normal? Delve in to find out, but don’t plan on putting this one down until you reach the shattering climax and find out Who Is the Girl in the Picture!

My Review

Let start by saying that I really liked this book.  I am into paranormal things and I love suspense/mystery books.  This book combined all of those areas into one book.  The  authors writing grab me from the beginning and kept me interested through out the whole book.  The story follows 4 friends that have been friends forever trying to figure out who the girl in the picture is that Sam found in the attic at Erin’s parents house.  Sam took the picture because she thought that her best friend Erin looked just like the little girl in the picture.  After Sam takes the picture things start to get super weird and tons of crazy stuff is always happening as they are trying to figure out who the girl is and why Erin’s parents had a picture of her up in their attic.  There was always something going on and I didn’t want to put it down.  The only weird thing with the book was the fact that it just one super long chapter.  I don’t know if you could even call it a chapter because there wasn’t any other ones.  Other than that I loved the book and would recomend it to anyone who likes thrillers.  If you was interested in buying this book you can go here and pick it up!  If you read this  book please let me know what you thought of it!

  I received a complimentary copy of Who Is The Girl In The Picture  as a member of the  Dorrance Publishing Book Review Team.  Visit dorrancebookstore.com to learn how you can become a member of the Book Review Team.

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Book Review-The Girl in the Box

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Caitlin Shaughnessy, a Canadian journalist, discovers that Inez, a traumatized young Mayan woman originally from Guatemala, has killed Caitlin’s psychoanalyst partner, Dr. Jerry Simpson. Simpson brought the girl, who may be autistic, back to Canada as an act of mercy and to attempt to treat her obvious trauma. Cailin desperately needs to find out why this terrible incident occurred so she can find the strength to forgive and move on with her life.

Inez, whose sense of wonder and innocence touches all who meet her, becomes a focal point for many of the Canadians who encounter her. As Caitlin struggles to uncover the truth about Inez’s relationship with Jerry, Inez struggles to break free of the projections of others. Each must confront her own anger and despair. The doctors in the north have an iciness that matches their surroundings, a kind of clinical armour that Caitlin must penetrate if she is to reach Inez.

The Girl in the Box is a psychological drama of the highest order and a gripping tale of intrigue and passion.

My Review

When I read the back of the book this book made me think of the movie “Nell” but once I started reading the book I realized that it was nothing like that movie.  I had the same idea of a feral children but other than that they are totally different.   The books starts when Jerry was in Guatemala and finds Inez.  The book then jumps to the present day when Caitlin finds out that Jerry was killed Inez.  It jumps back and forth quite a bit as Caitlin starts to write a book and looking into why Inez killed Jerry.  Lets just say that I never saw the book ending how it did.  Even now while I am writing this I am still in shock about how it ended.  The author does a great job keeping the person interested and making you feel like you are there with the characters.  I couldn’t help but like Inez and even feel bad for her.  I know that most people would find this book interesting if you like mysteries and/or thrillers.

  FTC- I received a complimentary copy of “The Girl In The Box” for this review and I received no other compensation.  The opinions expressed in the post are mine and only mine.

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Book Review-The Crossing

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On the way home from a football game, a decade earlier, a masked gunman opened fire on a Texas school bus. Cheerleading coach B.J. Remington was killed, but her murderer was never found. Claudia, who had a close friendship with the young, spirited teacher, constantly relives the anguish of that day, caught in one moment in time. When her husband, the assistant district attorney, becomes determined to uncover the mystery of that tragedy, the secrets buried over the years threaten to tear their family apart.

Officer Casio Hightower will never forget the day his dreams were destroyed. A star quarterback with a promising future, Casio was on top of the world—until one bullet changed everything. He is eager to help Victor Campbell find B.J.’s killer, the man who shot him. Maybe solving the case will help silence the demons driving Casio to hurt the woman he loves.

As the Campbells and Casio teeter on the brink of losing everything, will they be able to discover that what begins at the crossing ends at the cross?

My Review

I loved this book!!!!!!!!!  I can usually figure out the outcome of the books before they are done but I couldn’t figure this one out.  Lets just say that the ending totally shocked me and I didn’t see the end coming.  This book also held my interest and ended up being a book that I didn’t want to put down.  I really want to read more books by this author because her writing is amazing and she does such a great job describing things in her book.  Most of the mysteries/thrillers that I have tend to get gross but this book didn’t.  It still kept me interested even though it wasn’t super gross.

If you like mysteries then you will love this book!

FTC-I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review
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Book Review-House Of Secrets

House Of Secrets

FTC:I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

The cover and excerpt from the book were taken off of the website that gave me the book to review.

They vowed, as children, to be silent…

When her father orchestrates a surprise trip to the summer house of her childhood, Bailee Cooper is unprepared for what follows. What is intended to be a happy reunion for Bailee and her sisters quickly becomes shrouded by memories from the past.

Together again, the three sisters sift through their recollections of fifteen years ago…of an ill mother, and of their father making a desperate choice. One sister believes their silence must end and the truth be revealed. But they soon come to wonder if they can trust their memories.

Mark Delahunt arrives in the wake of this emotional turmoil. Determined to win Bailee’s affection, Mark becomes a strong fortress for her in this time of confusion, and what was once a tentative promise begins to take root and grow. Caught between the past and an uncertain future, can Bailee let God guide her to healing…or will she risk losing the chance to embrace love?

My Review

I can’t saw enough good things about this book.  I read the whole book in 3 days.  It was an amazing book.  It really made me think about things in my own life.  I also now have the motivation to make some changes that I need to make in my life.  I usually don’t like books like this one but I couldn’t put it down and I learned so much about myself because the main character in the book is my age and has a personality like mine.  I am not going into details because I don’t want to give the story away to anyone who may want to read the book.

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Review: Pattern Of Wounds

This is first information if from the website that sent me the book.

A brutal murder.
An unraveling conviction.

To catch the killer, Roland March must decipher the
PATTERN OF WOUNDS

It’s Christmas in Houston, and homicide detective Roland March is on the hunt for a killer. A young woman’s brutal stabbing in an affluent neighborhood bears all the hallmarks of a serial murder. The only problem is that March sent the murderer to prison ten years ago. Is it a copycat–or did March convict the wrong man?

Alienated from his colleagues and with a growing rift in his marriage, March receives a series of taunting messages from the killer. The bodies pile up, the pressure builds, and the violence reaches too close to home. Up against an unfathomable evil, March struggles against the clock to understand the hidden message in the pattern of wounds.

My Review

When I received the book I was excited because it is the type of book that I love to read.  I love the thrill type books.  This book is well written but I personally couldn’t get into the characters.  It is an easily followed story and a mystery thriller but there are just books that I can’t seem to get into and this was one of them.   I don’t have much to say because I had a hard time getting through the book.

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