Tuesday, February 5, 2019

The Girl Who Lived/Christopher Greyson/284 pages



     Faith was 12 years old when her sister, best friend and father die in a
The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel
bloody knife massacre at the family's lake house.  Faith survived but for the past 10 years she has been hospitalized with crippling survivors guilt.  The official ruling from the investigation was that Faith's father was the one who killed everyone and then took his own life.  No one believes her story of a rat faced man who hums being the killer.  Everyone is convinced that Faith is crazy, that she would harm herself if left alone.
     The 10th anniversary of the killing is coming up.  Faith's mom (who wrote a tell-all book that made Faith and her story famous) helps get Faith released into her custody with strict rules--survivors meetings, therapy sessions, AA meetings.  Faith tried but it really seems that the deck is stacked against her.  Chapter after chapter gets her roughed up, stolen from, terrified, stalked and more.  Many people try to help her but she becomes convinced that the original killer is back.  Faith wants to find and kill him and she doesn't care what happens to herself.  Worst of all, she doesn't know who to trust.
     What a powerful book!  The story grabs you as soon as you start reading and you simply cannot put it down.  Towards the end of the book you start doubting that everything Faith is experiencing is real which makes the ending perfect!  Really a great story.


                                                                                                                            

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