The Only Child (Large Print) (Hardcover)

from RowingRabbit

Ack!! The hardest review to write? One for a book that is well written but just not a genre you particularly enjoy reading. It's simply a case of a slight mismatch between book & reader, for which I take full responsibility. So here's the deal. I'll tell you what I did like & why I think those wi...

from Twink

The Only Child is the newest book from Andrew Pyper. Dr. Lily Dominick is a forensic psychiatrist, specializing in the 'worst' cases and the most dangerous offenders. Much of her motivation for her chosen profession is the unsolved murder of her mother. Lily was there, but has only hazy, dream-li...

from HeatherLINC

Surprisingly, I found this book a compelling read but not too scary, just creepy. It is not something I would normally pick up but the premise caught my attention. From the start, I was hooked. There was certainly a feeling of dread in the first half of the book which had me wanting to read 'just...

from RidgewayGirl

DNF. I usually battle on to the bitter end of a bad book, hoping for redemption or at least for it to move from "bad" to "so bad it's good," but I couldn't with this one. From the main character being a male fantasy of the perfect woman (while she didn't spend time fondling her own breasts, she d...

from veeshee

This novel was not at all what I expected - and not in a good way. I'm trying to decide where to start with this book:I really did not like the protagonist in this novel. She was just so off-putting. Her personality wasn't likable at all and there was nothing about her that made her stand out. It...