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Parker H. is a young psychiatrist who finds a new job at a mental
asylum in New England. He decides to undertake the curing of a dangerous
patient that everyone else in the asylum avoids. He begins to chronicle
his journey through a series of online posts. Parker hopes to
communicate with the world on his struggles and efforts on helping the patient.
The patient is a forty-year-old man who was originally admitted
to the hospital at the age of six for night terrors. However, the
patient currently has no known diagnosis. His symptoms keep evolving and
every person who attempted to help treat him ends up driven to madness
or suicide.
The hospital directors are desperate but, fear
for Parker's safety. They allow him to be confined to the patient's
room and have minimal contact with him. They are worried that if they
release the patient to the outside world, that there will be terrible
consequences. Parker is confident that he will be the person who will
help cure the patient. However, it becomes very clear that after his
first encounter with the patient, things start spiraling out of control.
The novel was an interesting and engrossing read. I finished the entire book in one sitting and it was just too good to put down. Some of the characters were more well defined than others. For example, Parker's wife, Jocelyn seemed like an afterthought. Parker was considered a genius and brilliant but, I sometimes question some of his behaviors. However, all in all, I still found the novel to be a suspenseful read with a bit of a supernatural twist.
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