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anniej623 's review for:
A Madness So Discreet
by Mindy McGinnis
This was a decent read and I would recommend it to a mutually interested friend for sure! It was over 300 pages which I think is a little ridiculous for a novel unless you are Stephen King but I read every page and it was pretty good.
It's about a young girl named Grace who is stashed away in an insane asylum because she is pregnant and unmarried (more twists and turns there... it's not what meets the eye) when a medical doctor who specializes in crime scene investigation see's Grace's observation skills and her ability to read people and sneaks her out of the asylum to help him solve crimes.
Now this is why I didn't give it 3 stars... the plot line kind of wandered around a bit. First, it was about criminal profiling and then it was about bringing justice to the populace and then it completely turned around and became about bringing her assailant to justice. It was all written and put together well enough that you kind of just wound up carried along, which is a testament to the author's skill, but at the end of the book I felt like I had been slightly deceived by the inner covers synopsis. The criminal profiling actually seemed like a rather small blip in the map of a 300+ page book but oh well.
It was good enough to finish and good enough to recommend to anyone who has a similar interest in 19th century asylums and criminal profiling like me! Enjoy!
It's about a young girl named Grace who is stashed away in an insane asylum because she is pregnant and unmarried (more twists and turns there... it's not what meets the eye) when a medical doctor who specializes in crime scene investigation see's Grace's observation skills and her ability to read people and sneaks her out of the asylum to help him solve crimes.
Now this is why I didn't give it 3 stars... the plot line kind of wandered around a bit. First, it was about criminal profiling and then it was about bringing justice to the populace and then it completely turned around and became about bringing her assailant to justice. It was all written and put together well enough that you kind of just wound up carried along, which is a testament to the author's skill, but at the end of the book I felt like I had been slightly deceived by the inner covers synopsis. The criminal profiling actually seemed like a rather small blip in the map of a 300+ page book but oh well.
It was good enough to finish and good enough to recommend to anyone who has a similar interest in 19th century asylums and criminal profiling like me! Enjoy!