Ward D

A thrilling psychological thriller with twists you don’t expect coming! Freida McFadden knows how to keep you turning the pages!

• A well-written story about Amy (a medical student) and her overnight stay in a psych ward and meeting the denizens therein. The story has excellent pace, with great little cliffhangers at the ends of each chapter to keep you turning the pages. I inhaled this book in a very short time (which is something very rare for me). I loved the incredible pace McFadden was able to maintain, slowly increasing the tension throughout the story. The twists she inserted in the story were also excellent, most of which I did not see coming. • I liked the variety of characters, as well as their uniqueness and vulnerability. Spider-Dan was funny and very memorable, as was Jade. But the other characters (particularly Amy’s ex-boyfriend Cameron and Dr. Beck) could’ve used more description and backfilling. Even the main character, Amy, kind of fell into this bucket for me. In the end, I wasn’t as frightened for Amy as I’d hoped to be when I started the book. Perhaps that’s because I didn’t feel that much attached to her (a fault of the author for not tying me emotionally to Amy). • Overall, I liked the book. It was a fun, exciting read, and a very fast one. At times, though, I found it too unbelievable (the author even admits to some of this in the introduction, that such things would never happen in a psych ward). • The ending wasn’t wholly unexpected, but it does give a satisfying jolt to the reader. While the denouement was necessary, it was just a tiny bit too lengthy for my tastes, and the final handful of paragraphs were just too trite. I think if the author had left the story “on the high road” and not gone down an all-too-familiar finale, it wouldn’t have left me with a final tepid taste.

There isn’t much that surprises me when it comes to reading books. I’m what you’d call a seasoned vet. Having said that, you have to be a pretty good author to fool me in a story line, but I have to say McFadden did an amazing job in keeping the reader guessing. Amy Brenner is a medical student and just recently went through a breakup with her boyfriend, Cameron. Although she would have preferred to not be assigned to Ward D, it was a terrific way for her to earn extra credit and to take her mind off of her breakup. But, as luck would have it, if you can call it that, poor Amy was not only assigned to Ward D, the psyche unit, but her ex-boyfriend was also assigned. And to make matters even worse, one of the patients there was someone that Amy knew very personally. Amy was upset and distraught. Even though, she needed the extra credit to help catapult her medical career. Try as he might, Cameron did everything to let Amy know he made a mistake in breaking up with her. And Amy wasn’t even trying to hear it. She had been there and done that. Besides, Cameron was a huge suck-up and couldn’t get enough of Dr. Beck. It was driving Amy nuts. Speaking of which, Amy and Cameron were assigned patients they needed to follow throughout the evening. Dr. Beck made it clear what the rules were. He gave them the secret code to get out of the building, in case of emergency. He advised that the patients were allowed to roam around and be treated with the utmost respect and more importantly—no matter what they did, neither of them were to go near Seclusion Room One. Hmm? Why couldn’t they go near there? As Amy was making her rounds for the evening, she heard a noise coming from Seclusion One. It sounded like someone snarling and growling. But what was worse this person sounded like he was breaking through the door. Amy was terrified, but she knew no matter what she wasn’t going near that room. Amy returns to the lounge area to see what type of patients Cameron had been observing when she noticed she couldn’t find him. In fact, there were a few patients that were missing too. Where did they go and why? When Amy confronts Dr. Beck about the whereabouts of her friend, Cameron, and some of the patients, he’s just as baffled too. There was one patient everyone was terrified of and one whom Amy was anxious to meet, but would she? In order to find out more, you have to read the book. OMG! Let me tell you, I gobbled up this book so fast it made me angry that I finished it so quickly. This was one of the best horror books I’ve read in quite a while. I’m happy to report I figured it out, but McFadden threw in a twist at the end that caught me by total surprise. And for that, she gets major kudos. It takes one heck of an author to fool me, and she got me in the end. This is my type of horror book! I could not get enough of this story. She wrote the words off the pages. I felt terrified and my heart was beating fast. Those patients were pretty scary and not knowing what was happening was even worse. It’s not knowing that brings fear and makes for a good horror story. McFadden executed that well.

This one just wasn't my favorite. It was well written, well done - but I saw the twist coming so early on - I was kind of hoping I was wrong, though. Amy Brenner, a med student, is required to spend the night in Ward D for her rotation. Ward D just so happens to be the hospitals inpatient unit for mental health, a place Amy has visited once before and swore to never go to again. Some of the hospital's most dangerous patients reside there, and the ward is locked - requiring a code to get in and out. After much reluctance and dread, Amy heads to the ward for her shift, and finds her ex boyfriend there to boot. When checking in on the patients, Amy meets some who are terrified they wont make it through the night, all dreading the same person - a person who is confined in a special seclusion room. Amy also happens to recognize one of the names in the unit - one who knows too much about Amy's past. As the hours tick by, people start to go missing, and Amy has few people she can trust. Will she make it through the night? I thought the overall story was good - but the fast that I knew what was coming from when Amy sent her first text message, I was a little deflated by everything. Not only that, but some of the descriptions of the patients and mental health in general seemed a bit outdated. I did like the twist on the very last page - that was a good way to end it! Overall, not my favorite, but definitely worth a read!

Many of this author's characters have similarities and it becomes very wash, rinse, repeat but the stories pull you in for an entertaining read and immaculate twists. This one is my favorite

This book had my attention from the first page. It's an easy, fairly quick read with a plot that you think you may know until it pivots. Then pivots again. While it's nice (even a reader ego boost) to figure out a story ending before it gets there, it's more humbling when you don't get it right. This book definitely kept me engaged.

This was a very intense book with lots of excitement and adrenaline. The story was very easy to follow and had a great plot. The ending was brilliant

Älskar att köpa böcker från amazon, snabbt enkelt och smidigt. Böckerna kommer fram i bra skick och är oftast några kronor billigare. Själva boken är en klassisk Freida Mc Fadden. Spännande, lättläst och underhållande!

Amazing book with lots of twist and turns loved it as expected of author

Kept me hooked from beginning to end. Well written, and the plot twist did not disappoint. Highly recommend to thriller books lovers.

Great book!