The Night Bird by Brian FreemanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Memory Reconsolidation
Thats what Dr Francesca Stein, a prominent and often contrversial psychiatrist specializes in. She prides herself in helping her patients overcome their phobias by using a mixture of hypnosis and drugs to help "rewrite" their memories of the traumatic events that may have led to their phobias.
But things begin to go horrendously wrong when women who were helped by this treatment suddenly have psychotic breaks and commit suicide in a bid to escape what;s haunting them in their mind.
Suddenly, Francesca finds herself thrown into a storm of controversy again. At the centre of an investigation, she is struggling with losing her patients and her own deteriorating personal life. And while dealing with this, it quickly becomes evident that someone is stalking her, determined to destroy all that she holds dear, by using her patients to get to her.
In a race against time, Francesca struggles with ethical boundaries while trying to help Frost solve the complex mystery and put an end to this deadly game once and for all.
MY THOUGHTS:
SO I think I was still in a Jonathan Stride reading rut when I started this book, so it took me a while to really get into the groove of things, but I;m glad I persevered, even when things got crazy scary.
“Everything in life came down to memories. The good. The bad. The real. The imagined. Put them all together, and that was the person you were.”
I found the concept of memory reconsolidation fascinating, but really scary at the same time. The thought of manipulating someone's mind like that gave me the chills.
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