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Book Review - Closer Than You Think by Lee Maguire #BookReview #BookBlogger #suspense

A different thriller of sorts where the psychologist was so many paranoid about every small thing that it was a wonder where he found the sanity to treat patients. But well he did. Till one day he found a stalker. He was Bryce the leading force behind the book, and someone wanted him dead.

My first book by author Lee Maguire saw me flipping through the pages really fast. The plot line was creepy. Bryce was followed everywhere, his home was broken into, his dog doused with perfume, his wife left him. He had problems galore. I liked parts of his characterization.

Then came my niggles, I didn’t like Bryce. I didn’t understand or connect with him. There were pages and pages of his thoughts which could be easily skipped. The emotions behind the words were missing. The writing flatlined, everything felt as it was told to me. This was a thriller which didn’t thrill me at all. The easiest metaphor I could give was a cola where the bubbles have fizzed out!!

I read this book with a hop, skip, and a jump and finished it in less than an hour. All my love was for the idea of the plot.

I downloaded the digital version of the book from Kindle Unlimited, and this is my journey into its pages, straight from the heart!!

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Lee Maguire has practiced as a psychotherapist, behavioral health consultant, and taught master’s and doctoral level psychology students. A focus of his clinical practice was clinical hypnosis. Lee resides in central Pennsylvania with his wife and basset hound.

Meet Bryce Davison, a gifted psychologist who can heal any troubled mind—except his own.

You see, Bryce’s life is falling apart. His marriage is crumbling. His insomnia brings only half-sleep and troubled dreams—visions of dark and buried memories he’d rather forget or ignore completely. And the new female patient in his psych ward just might be more trouble than he’s able to cope with.

…and now he has a stalker.

Somebody’s been watching Bryce for a long time. Somebody who knows his life inside and out—his fears, his regrets, his greatest longings and deepest despairs. Somebody with access to his most private places—his workplace, his home, his family…anywhere Bryce might have felt safe.

They do their dirty work in the shadows… and they want Bryce Davison dead.

So Bryce has got to get his life together. To save his patients. To save his family. To save his marriage…and his life.

Because no matter how close Bryce gets to the deadly truth, the enigmatic stalker is always closer than he thinks.

Publication Date: 22nd October 2018

Publisher: TCK Publishing

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  9. Well, I must say it is disappointing that you were unable to connect with the MC, because the cover is very attractive. I agree that a reader must connect with the main character in order to truly enjoy the story, but everyone is so different that one person may love a book while another may hate it. This could indeed lead to an interesting discussion… Thanks for sharing, Shalini. 🙂 🙂

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  16. Awww. That’s a pity it didn’t work out for you better . But I ended up laughing out loud with this line “psychologist was so many paranoid about every small thing that it was a wonder where he found the sanity to treat patients. ”
    So thanks for the laugh! 😂

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