DMR

It was okay. The first part of the book especially when the protagonist is as clueless as the reader. It has that nice confining atmosphere. The prose is nothing elevated, but I think it fits nice to the theme of the story. With all the secrets and whatnot.

It gets way worse when action starts to pick up though.

First of all I felt that the brutality of the guards is unnecessarily excessive. Their behavior gives no shock value and only dampens the atmosphere that would shine far more when it show more was revolving around confinemnt/solitude. Abuse doesn't need to get physical to work.

Actions scenes are WAY too short. All happens so fast you basically skim through it without knowing it even happened. Since this book clearly is aiming for another part, this needs to be addressed so all the battle will leave some taste after its over.

And lastly when it comes to action, two things happened that I really disliked. Christopher is one. He plays no role in the book and just takes up space for his POV that is practically redundant since what he doesn't know, we as readers already do. He brings nothing to the table and just exits the stage like any other villain. More of a prop than a character, and a really unhandy one.

The main villain is such a cliche trope that it hurts with how he walks in a circle and delivers a bad guy monologue wrapping everything we still didn't know in a tirade right at the very end. It would be so much more awesome if Christopher would unravel this for us, at least then his POV would have a goal and he would have a role more worthy than a bookmark. show less

[Disclaimer: I got this book via LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program]
The novel is halfway between horror and sf (ok, probably more horror, but not very fearful - think at Frankenstein). I am quite sure that the author, which gives only her initials, is planning a sequel: there are some threads willingly loose. The trouble is that - at least for me - the transformation the main character has in a few dozen pages has no basis, and this ruins the joy of reading. I have no problems with show more suspension of disbelief, but I need logic in the plot! show less

The story follows Cabinet 8 and her experience in a "hospital" that "cures" mental and physical disabilities. You find that the hospital is really just a ruse for supernatural experimentations on humans. It was strange, eerie, sad, and in some parts empowering. I am curious what will happen in the following book.

Beautiful telling of a very realistic situation that could happen. Definitely recommended to others