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The Rapture

By: Liz Jensen
Narrated by: India Fisher
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 In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned a patient who is the most dangerous teenager in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake...©2009 Liz Jensen (P)2009 WF Howes Ltd Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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From the beginning, Gabrielle’s voice, bitter, but determined after a life-decimating accident, pulls you deep into the unstoppable unspooling of disaster. A remarkable piece of writing, tension building slowly at first until it hurtles towards the earth-shattering conclusion. At the centre of it all is Bethany, a foul-mouthed teenage killer and prophet.

Utterly absorbing to the final terrifying climax

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I thought this would be a run of the mill thriller, but it was so much more. A psychologist with a past arrives at a mental institution for criminally insane children. Her new patient, Bethany, seems to be able to predict natural disasters. Can she really foresee them, or is the psychologist not as stable as she seems?

Religion, Mental Health and Armageddon!

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This bears a few similarities to another Liz Jensen book - The Uninvited and it's another chillingly, gripping listen. Reccomended.

An enthralling listen.

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I was completely engrossed in this book, which I listened to from Audible. The book I was supposed to be reading for a book group was only half read by the day of the discussion and I was looking for jobs around the house that I could do with my headphones on!!

Unfortunately a couple of niggling annoyances left it as a 4 1/2 star read. Firstly the constant reference to Frazer Melville rather than Frazer - who uses their whole name all the time? References to him as 'The Physicist' weren't much better. In addition I cringed at the repetition of the lengthy Spanish (Portugese?) phrase related to the painting in Gabrielle's house.

Gabrielle Fox is an Art Therapist on the rebound from a crippling accident that has left her confined to a wheelchair, paralysed from the waist down. This leaves her very vulnerable when she is confronted by Bethany Crawl, a psychotic teenager who killed her own mother by repeartedly stabbing her with a screwdriver. Gabrielle makes a noble attempt to behave professionally with Bethany but the teenager is wise to all the 'psychobabble' and soon sees through her.
Bethany claims to be able to predict environmental disasters and when she is repeatedly correct it becomes more and more difficult to fob it off as coincidence.

The only date that I spotted as I listened to the book was 2012, a date that has been linked to current apocalyptic predictions, making the book even more topical. In addition there is a love interest, in the person of Frazer Melville and a Christian viewpoint, depicted as the Faith Wave, whose members believe the increase in catastrophic events heralds The Rature, when they will be whisked off to heaven and non-believers will be left to suffer.

I couldn't predict how the author was going to end the book but I thought it was spot on.
It's a shame that many people have not enjoyed it so much and it does have its flaws but I'd recommend it without hesitation.

Totally gripping.

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A novel with many layers; psychological and geopolitical. And with fascinating and unusual main characters. Recommended.

Insightful and pod suspenderas

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