Review: When depression is not an illness
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
This seething story of mental illness and depression seeps in your veins like some kind of dark shadow.Blending the best of Peter Straub and Stephen King, this psychological thriller takes the titular character through the last hours of her life, and looks at the cataclysmic events that have brought her to the point of no return.This is not easy reading, and many of themes felt uncomfortably close to the truth - we all know people who have been bullied, people who have married the wrong person, or could never win Daddy's love.It's not that Emily is weak... but these things grind her down, and when the author allows us to take a step back to understand why... well that is true horror.I loved it.