Catherine House lures readers in with passion, intensity, and a fire in the belly that never fades!
Having grown up in rural Pennsylvania I can relate to this nightmarish boarding school that makes many promises but delivers nothing but nightmares.
Catherine House is a 'community of minds' and what many fail to realize is there's educational smarts, streets smarts aka life of hard knocks, and there's common sense.
Which avenue you choose depends on many factors such as upbringing, education, supportive systems, finances, and dare we say experimentation/research?!
Ok, here goes the manipulation takes many forms in this one and not just upon students as this is a 'prison atmosphere.'
Our protagonist and heroine is Ines and she's restless in adulthood and this new school.
She's not prepared for the manipulation, brain washing, experimentation, and dark seeded research.
The plot takes us through the matriculation to the "coming in" segway that's built upon fear and terror.
How can one mend a circuit not an object ?
How can one manipulate between objects rather than within each object?
These are all valuable questions for which answers must be uncovered.
As the story progresses we get a feel for the writers talent in connecting one theme with another more pertinent theme involving psycho sexual mending ie. Freud style
The characters were perfectly flawed and fit well into the story line with action beyond measure.
Which brings me to substance and the resulting factors involving life and death, prisons and wards, and of course the ultimate suspended animation.
Catherine chose them all because of secrets they kept not despite them.
Keep this in mind when reading.
Some would rather heed the warning signs and take off with a fight or flight response in recovery mode while others simply want to run and never look back.
In the end, the one question remains- What makes a house a home?
How you answer depends on your ability to interpret what's put forth before you.
Catherine won't let you go...
But perhaps you may never want to leave!
A great new work that I truly enjoyed.
Thank you to Elisabeth, the pub, and NetGalley for exciting the reading senses in providing me this early ARC to devour.
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