Review: Not sure...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
I'm not really sure how to feel about this one. It wasn't quite what I was expecting. I figured it would be about a man mentally abusing his wife...and it was but some things didn't add up for me. For example, the psychologist and the doctor had different opinions about which one was mentally off but neither one seemed to be in any hurry to help. When Katie realized Martha was the one needing help and needed to get away from her abusive husband, she didn't insist on getting the doctor to intervene, instead she acted like some vapid, giggling teenager when he said he couldn't get away. Are they the only two people on the planet? Call social services or the police! I also had trouble with the ending. She does what she does and there's no mention of what would surely be an investigation. She gets away with it (battered wife syndrome would surely fit here) with no consequences? We never know because it never says. Not a bad book but not a great or even good one.