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    What Doesn't Kill Her: A Novel
    What Doesn't Kill Her: A Novel
    What Doesn't Kill Her: A Novel
    Audiobook11 hours

    What Doesn't Kill Her: A Novel

    Written by Carla Norton

    Narrated by Christina Delaine

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    About this audiobook

    Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore-not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity.

    Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the effects of the head injury he suffered in the car crash that freed Reeve seven years ago. Post-concussive syndrome, they call it.

    For all that Flint seems like a model patient, he has long been planning his next move. When the moment arrives, he gets clean away from the hospital before the alarm even sounds. And Reeve is shocked out of her new life by her worst nightmare: Her kidnapper has escaped. Less than 24 hours later, Flint kills someone from his past--and Reeve's blocked memories jolt back into consciousness. As much as she would like to forget him, she knows this criminal better than anyone else. When Flint evades capture, baffling authorities and leaving a bloody trail from the psychiatric lock-up to the forests of Washington state, Reeve suddenly realizes that she is the only one who can stop him.

    Reeve is an irresistibly brave and believable heroine in Carla Norton's heart-stopping new thriller, What Doesn't Kill Her, about a young woman who learns to fight back.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJun 30, 2015
    ISBN9781427243829
    What Doesn't Kill Her: A Novel
    Author

    Carla Norton

    Carla Norton is the author of the Number One New York Times non-fiction bestseller, Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box and the true crime book Disturbed Ground. She was awarded a Royal Palm Literary Award for best unpublished mystery for The Edge of Nomal. She served as the special sections editor for the San Jose Mercury News and has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Los Angeles Times andThe San Francisco Chronicle. She has an MFA from Goddard College and has twice served as a judge for the Edgar Awards. The Edge of Normal is her debut novel. Carla Norton lives in Florida.

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    • 4/5
      I didn’t even know this was a sequel because it worked as a stand-alone novel, which I really appreciate. I didn’t feel like I was missing out on the action by not having read the first book - but now I want to! The suspense was pretty great, and the climax wasn’t too over-the-top. Reggie was kidnapped as a preteen and held captive for four years. She was found by accident and her captor was locked up, but he escapes, and Reggie feels obligated to help the FBI find him again, even if it means putting herself back within his reach.
    • 3/5
      Exciting and quick read. Another serial killer book but a twist that involves 2 killers and 1 who goes off on his own and captures a young girl and keeps her captive for years. During the torturous years, he carves symbols into the girls skin. He is put away (insane) and escapes. The young lady feels the need to help find him even though she is suffering from PTSD.
    • 5/5
      Reeve is a survivor. When she was 12 years old she was kidnapped and held captive for four long years. Fortunately for her, her abductor was in a car accident when she was in the trunk of the car so she was finally found. Her captor, Daryl Wayne Flint, was found to be criminally insane so he was locked up in a psychiatric hospital. Unfortunately for Reeve, he escaped and evades capture, forcing her to face her demons and to take part in the hunt for Flint before he comes for her or others. I simply could not put it down. This was truly a fun read!
    • 3/5
      3.5 starsWhat Doesn't Kill Her is the second book in Carla Norton's Reeve LeClaire series. Although it can stand alone, I am one of those obsessive-compulsive readers who just has to read a series in order, so I picked up Edge of Normal first. My decision to do so both helped and harmed my opinion of What Doesn't Kill Her.On the positive side, Norton's writing has become more polished, making this one of the rare series in which the second book is stronger than the first. On the negative side, What Doesn't Kill Her exacerbated the major flaw with Edge of Normal: protagonist Reeve LeClaire is a two-dimensional character whose only interesting feature is that she survived four years of captivity at the hands of a sexual sadist. This experience defines her, which may well be an accurate portrayal of the real victims of such abuse; however, a fictional character needs more to retain my interest, particularly across multiple books. As Dr. Ezra Lerner, Reeve's psychiatrist, observes at the end of Edge of Normal, Reeve's experience makes her uniquely well-suited to help other survivors, but What Doesn't Kill Her simply dumps her back into her own trauma.My sense is that Norton has created, and is using, the Reeve LeClaire series as a sort of public service announcement directed at readers who may themselves be the victims of sexual violence, a sense heightened by Norton's decision to close each book with an express exhortation that, "[i]f you or someone you know needs help, please act as quickly as possible" by calling 911 or one of the other organizations she helpfully lists.I would never tell a real victim to "move on," but if this series wants to survive, that's what Reeve needs to do.I received a free copy of What Doesn't Kill Her through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      I got this book as an ARC for an honest reviewthis is a thriller about a college student named Reeve. Years ago she was held captive for 4 years in Daryl's basement. He has been locked up in a psychiatric facility, but has escaped. Reeve realizes she is the only one who can stop him and bring back justice. I loved the story line idea! I just couldn't give it a higher rating because it was hard to get into at first. It was also easy to put down...i was hoping it would be more gripping!
    • 4/5
      Reeve is a young woman who has rebuilt her life after being held captive for years, but everything threatens to break open again when her captor escapes. It’s a good story with all of the makings of a really good thriller, but for some reason it didn’t quite come together and grip me like it should have. Perhaps it’s because we don’t really get to know the inner Reeve very well - instead of being exposed to her thoughts and inner turmoil, we are mostly exposed to her actions (sometimes heroic) and decisions (often questionable), and some of it just doesn’t ring true for a woman who has been through what she has. I hate having that roll-your-eyes kind of feeling when she does something that is clearly in the book purely for its contribution to the suspense and final denouement, and not because it makes sense or is a realistic turn of events. But all that being said, it’s a good book and an enjoyable read.