Amnesia

Rating:
Summary: Okay
Review: The premise of this book is basically that a young child witnesses the death of her sister in the hands of a serial killer. It turns out they catch the guy and place him in Gibson Hospital for the mentally ill.

Fast forward to 18 years later and the little girl is now a psychiatrist with a plan to somehow get to the serial killer and along with some friends get a mental memory image of the event of it on tape.

Its very confusing in the beginning because although the author tries to explain mental memory images to us laypersons, its stilll not really clear.

Anyway, suffice it to say that the scheme backfires and the main character becomes involved in a complicated case of scientific reasearch gone seriously awry.

The story was good (what I could get of it) and there are a few intesting turns in the story which kept me reading. The pace is very good and the author does not get too bogged down in boring details.

The only real problems I had (apart from the scientific part) was that I really did not like the main character at all. Although she was supposed to be a heroine, I kind of felt as though she was kind of portrayed as "me, me, me" and "i want, i want, i want" all the time. It got a little annoying.

Not quite sure what the role of the guy next door was supposed to be either. He kind of floats in and out of the story without giving us a chance to get to know him.

Still, this book kept me reading until the end and while I would not reread it over and over again, it was a good read.