Review: Pressure Situation
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
The Fading Place is a well written psychological thriller by Mary SanGiovanni, Charlie Van Houten is a single mother with a young daughter, going about her normal business she is abducted by the mentally unstable Simone who has designs on forcibly taking her daughter.The unpredictable Simone’s history is alluded to throughout as Charlie thinks of a way out of this desperate situation as it all builds to a crescendo, someone is going to die and it may not be a happy ending.The story was enjoyable if a little predictable but what dragged proceeding’s down for me was the glaring opportunity for escape when they are stopped by a law enforcement officer, Charlie’s state of mind becomes irrational under the immense pressure of the situation and Simone’s single mindedness, sometimes calm while others frenetic, propel them to a life or death struggle.