Midnight Rain 
asked by fusionz on November 11, 2006 11:22 PM
Phoebe Rain's sadistic ex-husband lies in a coma a thousand miles away-a coma she put him the last time he tried to kill her. Yet Phoebe knows the voice on the other end of the line belongs to the twisted man who vowed he'd never let her get away. Panicked, she turns to her neighbor, Dr. Alan MacKerrie. Alan finds the story hard to believe himself, but now he, too, is receiving chilling, ghostly warnings of danger. Caught between icy terror and mounting passion for Alan, Phoebe knows there's no escape.
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Phoebe Rain is a woman with a past - a terrifying past of being trapped in an abusive marriage. When she manages to escape her husband, Michael, and forges a new life as a school teacher she thinks she's safe. Then he finds her one day and shoots two of the children in her class before she manages to attack him, knock him out (causing him to fall into a coma) although she's badly injured herself by his shotgun blast.
We meet Phoebe in this book as she tries to rebuild her life two years after the classroom attack. Her husband Michael is still in a coma, her life has disappeared to almost nothing as she feels responsible for the deaths of the two schoolchildren. She makes a living by doing telephone tarot readings but is constantly frightened that one day Michael will wake up and come back after her.
And then it appears that he has done just that - who is it who is telephoning her? And why does she have strange nightmares now? Why do things in her house move? And what is the ghost of a child that she is seeing? She finds herself getting to know her next door neighbour, Alan MacKerrie, a widowed doctor whose daughter died five years ago - and whose ghost is appearing to Phoebe.
This book is full of suspense - is Michael alive? Is it him to blame for the phone calls? How does he know everything Phoebe is doing? Alan the neighbour vacillates between trusting Phoebe and wondering if she's a bit of a loony, especially with all the tarot and psychic stuff.
I wasn't particularly keen on the tarot side of the book - it's not something that I am interested in or particularly keen to read about - but as the book wore on and it appeared there were more concrete reasons for some of Phoebe's experiences, I found myself more gripped. There's a lot to this book and it's slow-build, and there are some interesting exploration of the spiritual world and how Phoebe's links with that world might help, but it's still a pretty good thriller in the `normal' physical world.
The previous book I've read by Holly Lisle, Talyn, is a fantasy book and I preferred the setting of that book and the freedoms of a make-believe world. But this book was still well-written and it was easy to get caught up in Phoebe's story - I found myself rooting for her throughout.
We meet Phoebe in this book as she tries to rebuild her life two years after the classroom attack. Her husband Michael is still in a coma, her life has disappeared to almost nothing as she feels responsible for the deaths of the two schoolchildren. She makes a living by doing telephone tarot readings but is constantly frightened that one day Michael will wake up and come back after her.
And then it appears that he has done just that - who is it who is telephoning her? And why does she have strange nightmares now? Why do things in her house move? And what is the ghost of a child that she is seeing? She finds herself getting to know her next door neighbour, Alan MacKerrie, a widowed doctor whose daughter died five years ago - and whose ghost is appearing to Phoebe.
This book is full of suspense - is Michael alive? Is it him to blame for the phone calls? How does he know everything Phoebe is doing? Alan the neighbour vacillates between trusting Phoebe and wondering if she's a bit of a loony, especially with all the tarot and psychic stuff.
I wasn't particularly keen on the tarot side of the book - it's not something that I am interested in or particularly keen to read about - but as the book wore on and it appeared there were more concrete reasons for some of Phoebe's experiences, I found myself more gripped. There's a lot to this book and it's slow-build, and there are some interesting exploration of the spiritual world and how Phoebe's links with that world might help, but it's still a pretty good thriller in the `normal' physical world.
The previous book I've read by Holly Lisle, Talyn, is a fantasy book and I preferred the setting of that book and the freedoms of a make-believe world. But this book was still well-written and it was easy to get caught up in Phoebe's story - I found myself rooting for her throughout.
reviewed by fazer on November 21, 2006 1:43 AM
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A loyal dog would have torn Michael to shreds before the sorry excuse for a man could retaliate. Then all her problems would have been solved, but then there'd be no story, I guess. Her ex truly was evil and the author made him very realistic. I thought the doctor was a little wimpy, though. The book will hold the reader's attention.
reviewed by bigwinner on November 25, 2006 1:37 AM