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Second Life: Losing You Saving Me
Second Life Losing You - Saving Me is a contemporary psychological thriller – with edge. A triangle of grief, obsession and unrequited love. It is the summer of 2014. Juliet tells of leading a duplicitous life of appearing to be in a happy, successful marriage with the seemingly steady Mark, while beginning to obsess about her ex – lover, Luka.
Flashback to when Juliet and her identical twin, Grace, survive a childhood of chaos being brought up by their emotionally absent alcoholic mother, who often can't find her way to return home, or by people paid to care.
Then Grace, tragically, dies of cancer and leaves behind a son, aged four. Throughout the book Juliet tells of how she is haunted by the death of her twin. Alone and not knowing how to deal with her grief, Juliet immerses herself into a career, her behaviour mirroring the brutality of her life lived to date, just in a more refined setting. When promoted into the boardroom, Juliet begins to hallucinate, seeing and hearing what she believes is her sister's voice and image. Whether real or imagined, Juliet believes the voice represents her sister's love being reciprocated. The book then takes a dark and twisty path, as Juliet travels around the globe to try and escape her grief where she meets an falls in love with Luka. Juliet finds herself not knowing who is telling the truth? Who can she trust?
Interspersed throughout the book are the perspective of Juliet's husband Mark, and the object of her obsession, Luka. Filling in the parts of Juliet's life that she cannot see or understand.
Can Juliet trust herself? Events unfold that change everyone's lives forever. Ultimately she has to make a choice: to accept the ultimatum of a life with Mark and medical intervention, or lose everything and remain living in her own world, accompanied by the voices in her head. #secondlife by MCBrowne. A new and original voice.
Flashback to when Juliet and her identical twin, Grace, survive a childhood of chaos being brought up by their emotionally absent alcoholic mother, who often can't find her way to return home, or by people paid to care.
Then Grace, tragically, dies of cancer and leaves behind a son, aged four. Throughout the book Juliet tells of how she is haunted by the death of her twin. Alone and not knowing how to deal with her grief, Juliet immerses herself into a career, her behaviour mirroring the brutality of her life lived to date, just in a more refined setting. When promoted into the boardroom, Juliet begins to hallucinate, seeing and hearing what she believes is her sister's voice and image. Whether real or imagined, Juliet believes the voice represents her sister's love being reciprocated. The book then takes a dark and twisty path, as Juliet travels around the globe to try and escape her grief where she meets an falls in love with Luka. Juliet finds herself not knowing who is telling the truth? Who can she trust?
Interspersed throughout the book are the perspective of Juliet's husband Mark, and the object of her obsession, Luka. Filling in the parts of Juliet's life that she cannot see or understand.
Can Juliet trust herself? Events unfold that change everyone's lives forever. Ultimately she has to make a choice: to accept the ultimatum of a life with Mark and medical intervention, or lose everything and remain living in her own world, accompanied by the voices in her head. #secondlife by MCBrowne. A new and original voice.
295 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 5, 2015
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April 22, 2015
Oh what a fantastic book that kept me hooked.
At the start it was an OK book, then when I went past the 25% mark I was flicking pages like there was no tomorrow.
Juliet appears to have an ideal life, she seems happier for now after everything she has had to endure.
We reflect how Juliet lost her twin sister to cancer. How this has affected her becomes clearer in the book as we read.
We see how she hears her twin sister in her head, even in so far as having conversations.
Juliet is married to Mark.
We are introduced to Mark early on in the book.
But Juliet loves and adores Lucas.
Lucas marries someone else.
We get inside Juliet's head on how she reacts to each 'tragic' thing that happens in her life.
Lucas is the love she cannot have, but Lucas in the one she thinks she wants, the one she thinks she needs.
This really is a psychological thriller. The more I read, the MORE I NEEDED to KEEP reading until I realized I had arrived at the end.
I read this for a blog tour that is happening soon. It caught my eye by the blurb, and me, knowing I love a good thriller that can mess with your head, I wanted to see what this NEW author came up with.
Debut novel? I thinks so. And if this is anything to go by, I need more.
YES this is her debut novel, blimey, if this is anything to go by, then this is another author I will be keeping my eye on for her next book
June 5, 2015
"Losing You, Saving Me" is an interesting psychological thriller. The story evolves around Juliet, who has lost her twin sister to cancer, and her journey to try to work through her grief issues. Along the way, the reader begins to see sides of Juliet that hint to a deeper level of psychological instability.
MC Browne has written an intense novel that has several subplots within the main plot. At times I found the novel somewhat confusing until many chapters later. I also found that while parts of it kept my attention and were truly engaging, there were other parts where I felt the story line dragged a bit and the author could have condensed those areas.
Overall, I found this novel to be interesting and engaging. I thought the author used an unusual but generally effective means of telling Juliet's story.
MC Browne has written an intense novel that has several subplots within the main plot. At times I found the novel somewhat confusing until many chapters later. I also found that while parts of it kept my attention and were truly engaging, there were other parts where I felt the story line dragged a bit and the author could have condensed those areas.
Overall, I found this novel to be interesting and engaging. I thought the author used an unusual but generally effective means of telling Juliet's story.
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