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Daylight Monsters by Sarah Dalton
* I received this from the author via Library Thing for an honest review*
This
is a short but scary novella. Ms. Dalton grabs you from the
beginning of the story. She is an expert in playing with realty
vs. imagination. I thought the cover was beautiful and
represented Mary Hades.
The
novella takes place in a Psychiatric hospital. Mary is having
visions. The author does a great job of keeping the reader
guessing, is Mary having a psychotic episode or is she having
visions? Is it her imagination?
Mary
is a very sweet character and the reader is able to understand and
empathize with her frustration. Everyone thinks that she is
crazy and she feels crazy. She can’t understand why she keeps
seeing “zombie” like creatures walking around. While
in the Psychiatric hospital, she is in Magdalena ward. I
really liked how the author played with the names “Mary” “Hades”
and “Magdalena”.
Mary
meets a great group of characters in the psychiatric ward. They
all form some type of relationship and reflect some of the issues in
the Psychiatric Hospital. One special person is Lacey-Mary’s
roommate. She helps Mary deal with her time in the hospital.
Lacey proves to be a hero and is very instrumental in Mary's life.
While
Mary is at the hospital she has to come to terms with her visions as
her life becomes in danger. She has to learn to figure out who
she can trust ( real or imagined). Overall, this was really a
great story. It was scary and very cleverly written. There is
a cliff-hanger feel so I'm confident we will see more to Mary's
story.
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