THE HOSPITAL, PART ONE: RUDE AWAKENINGS
SEAN MCCRACKEN
ISBN# 1-4241-2756-4
March 2006
Publish America
P.O. Box 151, Frederick, MD 21705
Paperback
$19.95
221 Pages
Thriller
Rating: 2 Cups

Emily Flesher has grown up in and around Weston State Hospital and has always wanted nothing more than to become a nurse or psychiatrist and help the patients there. However, after two years as a nurse changes in the health care system forced the closure of her beloved hospital.

Weston State Hospital has stood for over one hundred years in the town of Weston, West Virginia. It holds many secrets.

When six former employees of Weston State Hospital die under mysterious circumstances, a secret agency drafts another former employee to help them get to the bottom of the problem.

First of all, I have to say that this book was well on its way to a three or four cup rating. The characters are well written, the setting wonderfully eerie. The author obviously knows his way around an older mental health facility. It is described exactly as I remember some of the facilities in my area. The suspense and mystery build nicely, hooking the reader into the story and then the major problem occurs. The story ends. There is no resolution of any mystery and the reader is just left hanging. Obviously there is a sequel, and a dedicated reader will want to buy the second book, but I felt cheated.

Maura
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