Trust is a big step
Title : Accidents Happen
Author : Louise Millar
Published : 11/04/2013
Pages : 448
Genre : Psychological Thriller
Publisher : Pan
Kate Parker has had so much bad luck in her life, she's convinced she's cursed. But when she tries to do her best to keep herself and her son safe, people tell her she's being anxious and obsessive. Just when her life starts to spin completely out of control, an Oxford professor she meets offers to help. But his methods are not conventional. If she wants to live her life again, he will expect her to take risks. When a mysterious neighbor starts to take more than a passing interest in her, Kate tries to stay rational and ignore it. Maybe this, however, is the one time Kate should be worried.
Near where I live we have an old phone box, In the world, we live in its purpose has become long defunct. So a group of locals got together and decided to turn it into a place where people could take books they longer wanted and could swap them with each other. For me, I think this is a great idea and has led to me getting to read some books that would otherwise never have come up on my radar. This was how I came to have a copy of Accidents Happen.
Kate is a person who you can feel a great deal of affection for. As we learn the tragic events of her life you start to feel the sorrow that lives in her heart. How can some deal with so much loss in their life and still get up in the morning? Well for Kate it's her son who she feels a need to protect and in a form that some would say is a little extreme. She believes in the numbers, By this I mean she is obsessed with the static's that govern life and death in our every day lives. The likelihood of getting hit by a car on your walk to work or the probability that eating a certain type of food will lead to heart disease. A lot of Kate's fears seem to be the sort of things most parents worry about with there kids. And for me, I think this is in part how the author gets her hooks into your brain. Kate's fears while taken to the extreme are at times perfectly reasonable. While I don't have children of my own several of my friends do, and some of the things they have said to me I have seen reflected in Kate.
I like that fact that although I was reading what is a psychological thriller we get to see Kate's journey. She experiences a great deal of growth throughout the book. At times it felt like it belonged to another genre of books. And that's the thing as you settle into the flow of watching someone learn to let go and live there life in a more fulfilling way the author jumps out from behind the shadows to remind you that this is not that kind of story. While it seems at times it is hard to pinpoint the type of story your reading, There in lies the beauty of this book she gets you to connect on a greater level with her heroin by telling the story in this way. You get to experience Kate at her most paranoid freaked out behavior, but you also get to follow her highs as she starts to let go of all this and see what her life could be like. This I think makes the ending all the more horrific and terrible. When she finally chose to pull the rug out from all that is going on you come crashing down with her. But much like everything with this book, it's not a sharp and sudden fall that happens this is more the slow crash where you get to see every detail.
This book for me didn't really fit into the genre it is being sold as entirely. And for that, it does stand out from its usual pack. In the finishing of this book, I realize for some this book may seem a bit of a disappointment. I didn't feel the sort of alarm and terror that tends to build up in other psychological thrillers. But it's more a glimpse into the mind of women dealing with so much that she has difficulty in the everyday. But by the end, you realize that nothing is left untainted by the thoughtless actions. And from these actions, people chose their own paths in how to move on.
Near where I live we have an old phone box, In the world, we live in its purpose has become long defunct. So a group of locals got together and decided to turn it into a place where people could take books they longer wanted and could swap them with each other. For me, I think this is a great idea and has led to me getting to read some books that would otherwise never have come up on my radar. This was how I came to have a copy of Accidents Happen.
Kate is a person who you can feel a great deal of affection for. As we learn the tragic events of her life you start to feel the sorrow that lives in her heart. How can some deal with so much loss in their life and still get up in the morning? Well for Kate it's her son who she feels a need to protect and in a form that some would say is a little extreme. She believes in the numbers, By this I mean she is obsessed with the static's that govern life and death in our every day lives. The likelihood of getting hit by a car on your walk to work or the probability that eating a certain type of food will lead to heart disease. A lot of Kate's fears seem to be the sort of things most parents worry about with there kids. And for me, I think this is in part how the author gets her hooks into your brain. Kate's fears while taken to the extreme are at times perfectly reasonable. While I don't have children of my own several of my friends do, and some of the things they have said to me I have seen reflected in Kate.
I like that fact that although I was reading what is a psychological thriller we get to see Kate's journey. She experiences a great deal of growth throughout the book. At times it felt like it belonged to another genre of books. And that's the thing as you settle into the flow of watching someone learn to let go and live there life in a more fulfilling way the author jumps out from behind the shadows to remind you that this is not that kind of story. While it seems at times it is hard to pinpoint the type of story your reading, There in lies the beauty of this book she gets you to connect on a greater level with her heroin by telling the story in this way. You get to experience Kate at her most paranoid freaked out behavior, but you also get to follow her highs as she starts to let go of all this and see what her life could be like. This I think makes the ending all the more horrific and terrible. When she finally chose to pull the rug out from all that is going on you come crashing down with her. But much like everything with this book, it's not a sharp and sudden fall that happens this is more the slow crash where you get to see every detail.
This book for me didn't really fit into the genre it is being sold as entirely. And for that, it does stand out from its usual pack. In the finishing of this book, I realize for some this book may seem a bit of a disappointment. I didn't feel the sort of alarm and terror that tends to build up in other psychological thrillers. But it's more a glimpse into the mind of women dealing with so much that she has difficulty in the everyday. But by the end, you realize that nothing is left untainted by the thoughtless actions. And from these actions, people chose their own paths in how to move on.
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