Reviews

Before I Wake by Anne Frasier

rebelbelle13's review against another edition

3.0

Maybe it was just me, but I felt as though half of the story was missing in this novel. When I finished, i didn't feel satisfied, or even had closure. I think we were missing a lot of character backstory, and crime scene information from the French murders, and specific information on project TAKE. I understand that we were supposed to be in the dark for most of the story like Arden, but when you don't give the reader enough information to work with, how are you supposed to evoke feelings when events begin happening in the story? I didn't really have enough invested to really care what happened to the characters, which left me feeling neither one way or the other at the end. On the plus side, it did read rather quickly and I didn't dislike any of the characters (what i knew of them, anyway). Had the setting been described better, and more time put into the characters, this might have been a really wonderful mystery/thriller. as it stands, it's simply ok.

rachelmiegel's review against another edition

2.0

There was potential for this to be a good book but it wasn't written well. I found it hard to keep the characters straight and the author didn't spend enough time in the beginning explaining certain things. It was also very confusing how she jumped from scene to scene, and character to character within the same chapter, only separating them by new paragraphs. So in the middle of a chapter it would all of a sudden skip to something completely different.

pglt1177's review against another edition

4.0

I am really digging this author. Will have to get more books by her!

donnaj71's review

4.0

Arden was an FBI profiler before everything went wrong; before her parents were murdered by the killer she was trying to stop. She complately closed herself off and ran. She went to a small town where no one knew anything and she could be someone else for a while. Dr Harris had tried to help her forget those horrible memories by a process called Bleaching but it didn't work. Arden forgot some of the good stuff along with the bad.
Now she wasn't sure what was real and what wasn't. Then the man responsible for the murders was executed and she thought it was over until Agent Fury showed up. He said he got a letter from the killer saying he didn't kill her parents. The killer is still out there and copycatting the original murderer's MO. Agent Fury wanted her to come back to the program, project TAKE (Through a Killer's eyes), designed to help the agents get into the mind of the killer using solitary confinement and sensory deprivation. She had to go even though she hated the place. She had to find the murderer and stop him.

rebleejen's review

2.0

Too many points of view. Characters are flat. Plot is like a promising episode of The X-Files gone sadly wrong. Overall effect is tedious.