Before I go on with this review, I'd actually give it 3 1/2 stars.
I'm deeply conflicted by this book. While it was fast pace and atmospheric, from the first few chapters I sense that Maya's fragile state of mind would be her downfall and I was right. It feels completely unbelievable to me that she would be hired in a psychiatric ward in which she was once a patient. Quite the ethical dilemma.
As a therapist, the amount of malpractice and sexual tension between Lucas and Maya made me cringed and rolled my eyes, thus made this book a lower score. This is personal taste. I do realized that without these stupid decisions, the story wouldn't go anywhere but its like watching the scary movies where the characters walk towards the sound instead of running away.
What I did enjoy was the tense nature of the story, taking us back to Maya's past and interweaving it with Lucas' past. That was skillfully done. Minnesota and the Boundary Waters were described in great detail and painted a beautiful and isolate place. So while I cringed my way through Maya's terrible decisions, I also read this book in two nights. It did what thrillers come to do-engaged and be quick reads.
I'm deeply conflicted by this book. While it was fast pace and atmospheric, from the first few chapters I sense that Maya's fragile state of mind would be her downfall and I was right. It feels completely unbelievable to me that she would be hired in a psychiatric ward in which she was once a patient. Quite the ethical dilemma.
As a therapist, the amount of malpractice and sexual tension between Lucas and Maya made me cringed and rolled my eyes, thus made this book a lower score. This is personal taste. I do realized that without these stupid decisions, the story wouldn't go anywhere but its like watching the scary movies where the characters walk towards the sound instead of running away.
What I did enjoy was the tense nature of the story, taking us back to Maya's past and interweaving it with Lucas' past. That was skillfully done. Minnesota and the Boundary Waters were described in great detail and painted a beautiful and isolate place. So while I cringed my way through Maya's terrible decisions, I also read this book in two nights. It did what thrillers come to do-engaged and be quick reads.