What Jennifer Saw

This book was a good book. Lots of mystery in it and made you want to find out what happens next. This book had a little bit of everything added into it. There was just so much about it that I liked. You should check this book out and see what you think! .

Can a daring psychiatrist bring a young woman back from the brink of madness and solve a murder at the same time? Jennifer Harris saw her father, Jim, murdered in front of her eyes, but the event was so horrific, she has blocked it out. While she had been diagnosed as having PTSD, she is also showing signs of dissociative disorder, or multiple personality disorder. Her only hope lies with the doctor who is willing to risk everything to save her.

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We have the title What Jennifer Saw, apt title because its all based around what Jennifer actually DID see. She saw her Father killed in the most horrible disgusting nature. This has left Jennifer traumatized, so much so, that she needs help. At first her Mother doesn't accept that she needs assistance at all, eventhough she is waking with terrible nightmares and shouting out in the night.

It has to be faced, Jennifer needs Psychiatric help to overcome and rationalize [if there is such a thing as rationalizing a killing] to move on with her young life.

Her Father Jim Harris was known by everyone has a family man, lovely wife, four children, a good solid man of the community. But what is festering beneath all this? Why did someone want him dead?
A maverick psychiatrist, Dr. Timothy Adle is brought in to help Jennifer. Although his ways are new ways, will they work or send Jennifer over the edge and eventually fatal?

He discovers though that Jennifer has an illness of her own.

My Thoughts

As this book opens its pages pick up quite fast and you stay with it well. I feel the author has done a good job on the story line, and although some reviewers are not 100% happy with some of the reading agility, I would tend to agree with them on some. I think the book lost its pace now and again. Not enough to not stick with it though, I also feel [for me anyway] that the story was well thought out and presented well. I certainly didn't get lost or veered off track towards how the author wanted the reader to respond.

All in all, I liked this book. If I could have 'felt' the pace more, [for example] turning my pages fast and not wanting to put it down, this would have merited a 5 star. I am quite reserved with my 5 stars and don't give them away freely unless the book really moved me and/or stands out on its own among the zillion books that are being written at the moment.

**This review is my own opinion. Reviews are just that....a persons opinion and I give my reviews to help readers get a balance of the book by reading ALL reviews that others choose to make too. I also write review for feedback to the author. Never with malice and always with good intent**

I received this book through NetGalley.
“What Jennifer Saw” by Hal Schweig had me thinking two things. The first is; who is Hal Schweig? And the second was; when is be publishing again? In this psychological thriller by a refreshing new author, we are introduced to a wide array of eclectic characters. The plot begins when one of these characters, a well-known and community-loved businessman named Jim Harris, is shot dead in his home. A reader is led on many different paths throughout this novel, which I loved, and many different characters are believed to be the culprit. Initially, the blame is cast on the lead investigator (isn’t it always?) and in fact, this character is almost so believable as the murderer, that I was left feeling disappointed that the killer had been revealed so soon! However, I should’ve had more faith in Schweig’s storytelling, as it was indeed not whom I expected. Schweig takes a seemingly utopian suburban community and turns it on its heels. We are led to trust no one, and are reassured that no one is whom they appear to be. Adultery, secrets and scandal are just some of the clandestine vices that our seemingly perfect characters display. This book, in its structure and character formulation, reminded me a little bit of “Under the Dome” by Stephen King. I saw this because “What Jennifer Saw” starts with an overly large large collection of characters, and it is not until the character selection is narrowed down to a couple prominent players, that a reader is able to keep better track of the plot line. Then the book basically becomes completely “un-put-down-able”. The story line in itself is original and creative, and the characters are passionate and very literally unstable (which make them fascinating). As I came to the end of the book I began to panic, as the pages were getting fewer but the plot line was not slowing down. I expected an abrupt, unfinished ending and was extremely satisfied when this turned out not to be the case. The epilogue even provided a comforting ending for all the important players. I will be keeping an eye out for more of Schweig’s work!

Fantastic read! Has you hooked from the very first page, awesome plot. Make sure you have nothing else to do, you wont want to put it down.