Cold Cold Sea

I had a love/hate relationship with this book.  It was a thriller and and and like a bad addiction, I could not stop reading until I finished the book. As sick and twisted as some of the characters were, I wanted more and the author delivered!  I read this book over the weekend with my three year old at my beach house...I will be keeping a closer eye on my kids now!

You Got Me!!!

Very rarely do I read a book where an author captures my attention.  In this case,  right off Ms. Cooke had my full attention, because the subject matter dealt with a therapist working with a severely emotionally disturbed child, who came from an unstable home.  Since this was my job for many years, I was fascinated to read about the dynamics and issues that went on between the therapist, social worker, and the boy, and as geeky as this sounds, how policy worked in Northern Ireland.  I was immediately sucked in, and could not put it down.  I was impressed at how realistic it seemed, even when sometimes the lines between therapist and patient seemed to be crossed, maybe I was getting a little too  into the story, but in the end...Carolyn Jess-Cooke, You got me!