Book Review: The Blind

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This is my honest book review of The Blind by A.F. Brady.

Book Summary:

Psychologist Samantha James works at Manhattan’s most challenging psychiatric hospital. She is very good at her job. Her reputation is stellar.

Then a man named Richard is admitted. No one else wants to treat him. He won’t speak or answer their questions, and is an enigma. But Sam is determined to figure him out. He has been in prison, she knows, but he seems a bit too normal to be at their institution.

Sam gets pulled into Richard’s past because she has a savior complex. At the same time, she begins looking at her own life, and what she sees is frightening. She drinks far too much. She’s unhappy. And she’s in a relationship with an abusive man that she can’t seem to break away from.

The more she manages to dig up about Richard, the faster she seems to decline into her own abyss. She decides that if she can’t save herself, perhaps she can save someone else. So who is treating whom in this lopsided scenario?

My Review:

Sam seems to have about as many problems as the patients she treats. But she wants to remain the golden girl employee who is tasked with responsibility.

At night, she goes to bars, gets drunk, and her boyfriend often abuses her. Something in her seems to believe she deserves it.

What Sam doesn’t yet know is that she has a personality disorder that she is not receiving treatment for. And suddenly she is on a downward spiral.

Richard is a mysterious person. For a while there, I couldn’t figure out why he was there, how he knew what he knew, and what drove him.

If you read this book, the loose ends will all be gathered together into an explosive explanation.

About the Author:

A.F. Brady was born and raised in New York. She is a psychotherapist and a NYS-licensed mental health counselor.

She has a B.A. in Psychology from Brown University and an M.A. and Ed.M in Counseling Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.

​She lives in New York with her husband and their sons; one canine and one human.

This is her first novel.

Disclosure: I received this book for my honest review.