The Madness
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Beware what waits in the shadows…
With one unexpected email from her estranged best friend, Lucy, Mina Murray’s carefully curated life is turned upside down. Leaving behind her psychiatric practice in London, she returns home to the windswept shores of Wales. Faced with everything she’s left behind, she soon discovers that Lucy’s symptoms mirror those of her mysterious amnesiac patient hundreds of miles away.
With nothing but an untreatable sickness connecting the two women, and with Lucy’s life on the line, Mina finds herself asking questions and being drawn ever-deeper into a web of secrets, missing girls, and the powerful, nameless force at its center—one that has been haunting her for years.
As terrible, ancient truths begin to reveal themselves, Mina prepares to confront her own darkest secrets, and with them, an evil beyond comprehension. Together with a group of smart, savvy women, Mina seizes one last, desperate chance to stop the cycle that began so long ago. But there are dangers to inviting the attentions of what might not be a man, but a monster…
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A new favorite!!
This book is a modern Dracula and hits all the story bests that important to me. The vampire is an unknown scare lurking behind the odd events. The more we find out about this mysterious person and the group they surround themselves with, the more terrifying and grotesque he became.
The main character in this version is Mina. She is dealing with her own trauma while trying to council other women who have trauma. In the midst of that her friend, Lucy, calls her home. Mina sees Lucy at home and a new patient in the city and connects the two. Now she is off to investigate what the police are ignoring. She is going to find a way to recuse the women who are tossed aside by society. Mina is vulnerable and determined and willing to learn. Those that come around her to support her investigation are amazing! I loved seeing how the characters I knew from the original showed up in this one.
I genuinely cannot say enough good things about this book! The vampires, the fear, the women, the determination. It was all so excellently done. This is a new all time favorite.
This was a GREAT new take on a retelling of Dracula. A modern day vampire story with a superb feminist slant. Mina was very relatable. I thought that the way she had fled her home as a teen which led to her becoming a psychiatrist who wanted to help women was well-done specifically. The struggles she had with coping with her trauma.
As for the tense parts. The mystery behind her friend Lucy's condition, and the connection to a bigger story of a lot of women being in danger was gorgeous. The kick-ass camaraderie of Mina, Mam, Quincey, and Singer was phenomenal.
The Welsh folklore was also a highlight for me. The only drawbacks for me were some things while overall satisfying were also expected. Not necessarily telegraphed but presumed that they were going to happen. I don't feel it took too much away from my enjoyment.
Great book HIGHLY RECOMMEND
That was unexpected. Some things bothered me and there were weird moments that felt disjointed but worth the read.
