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A review by obsidian_blue
The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen
2.0
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
Trigger warning: Description of rape
I was surprised at how much I didn't really like this newest offering from Sarah Pekkanen. I think that the dual POVs was the reason why it didn't work. And the ending was just kind of not finished in my opinion. But this one was a hard one to get into and I just didn't really find some parts of it realistic.
"The Locked Ward" follows Georgia Cartwright, daughter of a very wealthy family, she's currently in a psychiatric facility on a hold. Georgia is accused of murdering her half sister, but her attorney is claiming she is not fit to stand trial. Georgia though has a plan, and part of that plan is a sister she has never met, named Amanda, coming to her rescue. The book jumps back and forth between Georgia and Amanda as Amanda is pulled into Georgia's life and those around her who may mean her harm.
Trying to not spoil anything outside of what it out there for the book jacket, but I think a lot of things that got revealed were very soap operaish. I just didn't buy them. I really liked Pekkanen's last book so this one felt very unrealistic at times.
I didn't really care for Amanda's character at all. I know why she was written the way she was, in contrast to Georgia, but after a while I was just like um okay, not touching that.
The flow was not really good in this one. You jump around a lot within POVs to things that occurred in the past so I had a lot of issues here and there tracking things. I get why Pekkanen did it that way to do more reveals/twists. But it just didn't work for me. And it's not because I guessed at things (which I did) but it just slowed the story down so much and I would go wait whose POV am I reading right now?
The ending as I said, didn't really work for me. Probably because it mimicked how Frieda McFadden would end one of her books. And if you have followed me for a bit, you know that much of McFadden's endings don't work for me.
Trigger warning: Description of rape
I was surprised at how much I didn't really like this newest offering from Sarah Pekkanen. I think that the dual POVs was the reason why it didn't work. And the ending was just kind of not finished in my opinion. But this one was a hard one to get into and I just didn't really find some parts of it realistic.
"The Locked Ward" follows Georgia Cartwright, daughter of a very wealthy family, she's currently in a psychiatric facility on a hold. Georgia is accused of murdering her half sister, but her attorney is claiming she is not fit to stand trial. Georgia though has a plan, and part of that plan is a sister she has never met, named Amanda, coming to her rescue. The book jumps back and forth between Georgia and Amanda as Amanda is pulled into Georgia's life and those around her who may mean her harm.
Trying to not spoil anything outside of what it out there for the book jacket, but I think a lot of things that got revealed were very soap operaish. I just didn't buy them. I really liked Pekkanen's last book so this one felt very unrealistic at times.
I didn't really care for Amanda's character at all. I know why she was written the way she was, in contrast to Georgia, but after a while I was just like um okay, not touching that.
The flow was not really good in this one. You jump around a lot within POVs to things that occurred in the past so I had a lot of issues here and there tracking things. I get why Pekkanen did it that way to do more reveals/twists. But it just didn't work for me. And it's not because I guessed at things (which I did) but it just slowed the story down so much and I would go wait whose POV am I reading right now?
The ending as I said, didn't really work for me. Probably because it mimicked how Frieda McFadden would end one of her books. And if you have followed me for a bit, you know that much of McFadden's endings don't work for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape