Who D.I.D. it?


Having studied psychology in college when this book came to Netgalley I rushed to request it. This type of mystery is completely up my ally. So, thank you to all parties involved in my getting a copy of this book. A.F Carter you have a new fan with me I really enjoyed this new twist to a thriller so thank you. Carolyn Grant had been subjected to extreme and horrible sexual and physical abuse from her biological father, then by the foster family, she was sent to. Even after she aged out of the system, she continued to be exploited by others around her. She had fractured into several different people all sharing the same body, all with the goal of surviving one day at a time. Their lives are put at risk when Eleni the rather promiscuous personality gets picked up by the police and their freedom is questioned. The story takes an even more interesting turn when the father who abused Carolyn for so many years is paroled after serving a large part of his sentence. I don’t want to give two much of the story away but I will say someone does die and we don’t know who did it until the very end.

This is one of those novels that will do well with book clubs and friends because it opens the discussion for mental health. I love how the author treats the subject with respect and gives the reader a proper insight on treatments. I enjoyed that the separate personalities had a great deal of details and independence to them. Who I hated was the psychiatrist that the court appointed I will say that I enjoyed that he made all the personalities work together to better support the collective but that is about all I liked of him. Overall a 4.5 star read. I will continue to support this author in the future because I enjoyed the original concept. ( )

Carolyn Grand has very distinct multiple personalities. There's Eleni, the seductive one, Serena, the timid one, Martha, the one that does all the choresss, Victoria is the well dressed one, Tina is the little girl and then there's Kirk, he feels that he is a man stuck in a woman's body.

When Eleni accidentally solicits a detective, Carolyn Grand is forced to prove she's able to care for herself. She then finds out her father, the man that abused her, was being released from prison. All of her rage comes to the forefront as she realizes her psychiatrist isn't really trying to help her and her father has been murdered. Can she prove her innocence when she has no recollection of that night?

I loved this book, it really makes you think about what someone with this disorder goes through. Imagine having days, weeks, or months missing out of your life at a time. The descriptions were so vivid that you feel the frustrations and confusion, not knowing what she did and what happened on those missing days. The only part I wasn't very happy with was the very anti-climatic ending. ( )

Definitely not a thriller. Interesting enough though. Decent plot but the characters are very bland and one dimensional. ( )

Carolyn Grand suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Inside her once abused and battered body live 6 individuals. Martha, the housewife, Victoria, the public persona, Eleni, the promiscuous, Kirk, a heterosexual male, Serena, the new age spiritual, and Tina, the keeper of memories. After Eleni propositions a cop, they find themselves in therapy. They immediately distrust the psychiatrist, who is a bit too forceful, and who takes pleasure in their discomfort. Then, their father, their primary abuser, is paroled.

This book seemed to have very little plot. The story focused so much on describing the personalities that nothing ever seemed to happen. The psychiatrist, meant to be a dark character, was a bit bland. The situation with the father was resolved too quickly and too easily. Overall, this book was much ado about nothing. ( )

I liked the idea of this book a lot more than I liked the execution. The concept and overall story were awesome, but the delivery left something to be desired. I wasn't a big fan of the writing style - I love a good multiple viewpoint story, but for me, there wasn't enough separation amongst the characters. It could be confusing who was speaking at times. I was also bothered by the relationship between Carolyn and one of the detectives handling the case. I don't want to include spoilers in this review, so I will leave it at this: nothing about their relationship is acceptable. The men in the book are overwhelmingly icky, and it just leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth (which to an extent is to be expected, but it can also feel a little heavy handed). I did, however, enjoy seeing the ways each personality adapted to the world around them and howthey all ultimately took care of each other and Carolyn. ( )