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"When your worst fear comes true."Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she's a little crazy. Kaycee's popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee's mind. Where is all this coming from? Maybe she is going over the edge. High action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Facing the Fear Factor,
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This review is from: Exposure: A Novel (Paperback)
Kaycee Raye thinks she has forever rid herself of the paralyzing fear that someone is watching her. But then, after spinning out dozens of therapeutic and fear-conquering "Who's There" columns, her best friend's biggest nightmare comes true. That's all it takes to bring her own anxieties back to malevolent life. Now it seems that even the walls of her once-snug home have sprouted eyes. It doesn't help that other creepy things are happening too - cameras flashing pictures of her when no one is around, mysterious images appearing on her computer...But before this heroine of Brandilyn Collins' latest suspense thriller Exposure can enlist the help of the police, Hannah, her dead friend's nine-year-old daughter, goes missing. Could the danger she feels be linked with Hannah's disappearance? Or maybe, as everyone seems to think, her mind is just playing tricks on her. Interspersed between the chapters about stalker-obsessed Kaycee and the search for Hannah is the tale of Martin Giordano, his wife Lorraine and their daughter Tammy. The eventual weaving together of these two story threads is a feat of plotting that does Collins proud in the clever department. Though plot is the story's strength, Kaycee is a nicely developed character with whom it is easy to identify and sympathize. Martin and Lorraine are also interesting. I especially enjoyed the bit characters Nico and Bear for their pure villainy. The book is written with true suspense finesse, has lots of nasty surprises, and contains an abundance of pounding heartbeat, sweaty palm and adrenaline-producing passages. (Poor Kaycee - what she has to endure to give us these vicarious thrills and shivers!) I found Collins' writing style so suited this genre, I lost all awareness of it as I was swept along by the story. The theme of fear dominates this tale, fleshing out how its presence tricks, debilitates, paralyzes, poisons and spreads. Kaycee's faith in God often helps to calm her inner frenzy, but it doesn't provide any kind of miraculous cure. For a swift read of seatbelt suspense, air-bagged by comforting and eternal truths, Brandilyn Collins' Exposure is a good choice.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A decent, readable crime/suspense novel,
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This review is from: Exposure: A Novel (Paperback)
A columnist from a small town starts experiencing some very disturbing events at her home that closely mirror her own worst nightmares. It is not clear if those events are due to her delusional mind, some sick copycat who plays some elaborate joke on her, or genuine supernatural phenomena. Meanwhile a daughter of her friend runs away from home and goes missing. In an unrelated story a bank clerk with severe case of claustrophobia goes through a very harrowing bank-robbery. These three stories don't seem to have much in common, and the reader is kept wondering until the very end what the connection is. This puzzle is the one of the main sources of interest for me in an otherwise rather unremarkable novel. The writing is extremely simplistic even for a hard-boiled crime novel, and characters are very flat. The characters oftentimes do such dumb things that it can be a challenge to maintain the suspension-of-disbelief throughout the novel. The final resolution of the plot did somewhat work out, although even that left me scratching my head about many particulars. The invocation of God in one of the last chapters felt totally gratuitous and unconnected with the rest of the story. I have no problem with intertwining a deeper spiritual or religious message into a story, but this needs to be done with some dose of tact in a meaningful, naturally-flowing way. Otherwise it looks as ridiculous as a top-hat on a hobo.Despite all of its flaws, this is a decent, readable, book that will keep you interested and can be worthwhile if you have nothing better to read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
High Octane Seatbelt Suspense,
By Bonnie Toews "Heart Tugs ... at the crossroad... (Newcastle, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Exposure: A Novel (Paperback)
Brandilyn Collins proves what a master of suspense she is in this new novel EXPOSURE. She not only handles the plot in an innovative treatment, she forces us to face our deepest fears. At one point, when I dozed off as I couldn't put the book down, I had a nightmare (which I can't remember now) that woke me up and I kept reading to the end. The pace never relents, only intensifies as the dangers escalate.Kaycee Raye writes a syndicated newspaper column that ridicules her own fears, while exploring them. Until she starts seeing things that disappear and the police can't believe her. And then the young runaway daughter of a friend disappears and the child's note indicates she wanted to stay with Kaycee. Are all these incidents related? The fear that she is responsible for young Hannah's possible abduction drives Kaycee to fight her fears and help look for her. I agree with the first reviewer. To go further with the plot is to give away the stunning ending. Even though EXPOSURE is produced by a Christian publisher, this novel could have been mainstream. Kaycee's experience with God is organic to the story. She prays in "short-tongue" style--according to her quick observation or urgent appeal, more in keeping with how most people pray--and only at the end of her ordeal does she analyze the part God plays in what has happened to her and in the healing process. That too is how most of us experience our relationship with God, whatever our religious belief. Brandilyn deserves to stand at the top of the podium. This is an outstanding novel that rates five stars PLUS.
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