Since We Fell

 

Shirley J.      Adult Fiction  Psychological Thriller         Negative Information Overload = Breakdown    

Since We Fell: A Novel by Dennis Lehane    496 pages

When journalist Rachel Childs undergoes a number of horrible, terrifying events while doing a story in Haiti, she loses her mind for a time and relapses when she encounters triggers to this event.   Her life becomes a prison inside the walls of her apartment.   She cannot go past the threshold without having another melt down.   She loses her career, her marriage and for all intents and purposes her life.   She is given another chance with a man devoted to her every wish, who caters to her every whim and cherishes her and coddles her when things begin to overwhelm her, then, she finds out he is seeing a very pregnant woman and thoughts of his leading a double-life take over and become her obsession.   Her fairytale is coming to an abrupt end and she is the evil that is bringing it to a close.    Is she losing her mind again or is there more to this story?   Her philandering husband must pay so she shoots him and throws him off a boat or is she mixing fantasy with reality?  No she saw the blood...wait....what?     Good story, I liked it way more than I thought I would although Rachel can be like fingernails on a chalkboard at times.  Well done!   I would recommend this book to adults just because some of the events are really tragic and haunting even if they are fiction they describe actual things that have happened.