The Perfect Child
A Washington Post andCharts bestseller.A page turning debut of suspense about a young couple desperate to have a child of their own and the unsettling consequences of getting what they always wanted.Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture perfect lives All that s missing is a child When Janie, an abandoned six year old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own.But Janie is no ordinary child, and her damaged psyche proves to bethan her new parents were expecting Janie is fiercely devoted to Christopher, but she acts out in increasingly disturbing ways, directing all her rage at Hannah Unable to bond with Janie, Hannah is drowning under the pressure, and Christopher refuses to see Janie s true nature.Hannah knows that Janie is manipulating Christopher and isolating him from her, despite Hannah s attempts to bring them all together But as Janie s behavior threatens to tear Christopher and Hannah apart, the truth behind Janie s past may be enough to push them all over the edge. Download The Perfect Child – kino-fada.fr I m okay with not having a happy ending, but an ENDING would be nice I feel like the book ended in what should have been the end of a chapter Good book, although I found the husband, Christopher, INFURIATING.One word to sufficiently describe this book DISTURBING Dr Christopher Bauer and his wife, Hannah, have been struggling with infertility for years Hannah, now 41, has all but given up hope of having children until..A young girl is found abandoned and walking alone through a parking lot covered in blood, malnourished, and once examined, is found to have multiple old and new bone fractures, none of which have ever been treated Once thought to be a toddler it turns out after surgery that sh One word to sufficiently describe this book DISTURBING Dr Christopher Bauer and his wife, Hannah, have been struggling with infertility for years Hannah, now 41, has all but given up hope of having children until..A young girl is found abandoned and walking alone through a parking lot covered in blood, malnourished, and once examined, is found to have multiple old and new bone fractures, none of which have ever been treated Once thought to be a toddler it turns out after surgery that she is actually 6 years old Christopher, being an orthopedic surgeon, is the one to perform the many surgeries she requires and from here he keeps a close vigil on young Janie When it comes time for Janie ...BEWARE OF SPOILERS A dead meth addict s child being wild proves to be a pretty good read, even though placed far out in the field of unbelievable I m not sure where the ending is, though Do regular 6 year old undernourished kids the size of a newborn even crazy ones have the necessary strength to kill a grown up meth addict Is it really all right to ignore that the kid s mentally ill And she s not just blandly ill , but bonkers and plenty dangerous to other people, not just herself.All th BEWARE OF SPOILERS A dead meth addict s child being wild proves to be a pretty good read, even though placed far out in the field of unbelievable I m not sure where the ending is, though Do regular 6 year old undernourished kids the size of a newborn even crazy ones have the necessary strength to kill a grown up meth addict Is it really all right to ignore that the kid s mentally ill And she s not just blandly ill , but bonkers and plenty dangerous to other people, not just herself.All the manipulation they were letting Janie do, it wasn t improving even her own state Kids areclever than we realize and had they actually communicated to Janie that she can t do things she does, she would ve been quick to improve Obviously, she knew well how to behave with the people she...There was a knock on the door, I peeped behind the curtains to see who it was then I didn t bother to write a review after all.I m not sure I ve ever read such a crazy, intense, non stop, haunting, anxiety producing novelbut only in the best and most desirable way I didn t want it to end Once this book has you in it s grips, it won t let go I started it this morning and literally could not put it down My poor husband probably feels deprived Having received The Perfect Child free as a Kindle First February option, I honestly didn t have high expectations These freebie books are hit or miss for me Sometimes theI m not sure I ve ever read such a crazy, intense, non stop, haunting, anxiety producing novelbut only in the best and most desirable way I didn t want it to end Once this book has you in it s grips, it won t let go I started it this morning and literally could not put it down My poor husband probably feels deprived Having received The Perfect Child free as a Kindle First February option, I honestly didn t have high expectations These freebie books are hit or miss for me Sometimes they re decent, sometimes they absolutely stink, and sometimes, they slowly mesmerize you with their intensity and unparalleled chaos.The Perfect Child was like thatI was absolutely mesmerized The characters, particularly Hannah, were so beautifully tragicshe felt very real to me I could relate so very much...This is one messed up book and Janie is one messed up child You d think that thepsychological thrillers you read, the less they will affect you But actually, it doesn t work like that If anything, your insides instinctively prepare themselves to be disturbed the moment you begin a new thriller.I read this story at night First mistake My second was to take a break from it by taking a shower in my apartment, alone, at 4 am Normally, I don t care, I feel safe enough But that night, the This is one messed up book and Janie is one messed up child You d think that thepsychological thrillers you read, the less they will affect you But actually, it doesn t work like that If anything, your insides instinctively prepare themselves to be disturbed the moment you begin a new thriller.I read this story at night First mistake My second was to take a break from it by taking a shower in my apartment, alone, at 4 am Normally, I don t care, I feel safe enough But that night, the softest sound unhinged me, making me wonder if a Janie like figure was waiting for me outside the bathroom door Needless to say, I am happy to be done with this book Lucinda Berry, the author, is a doctor, so she knows what she s talking about She knows what s normal and what isn t She knows what can drive a pe...Jesus, What I ve just read This book is very disturbing but I couldn t put it down My emotions where all over the place because I didn t know who should I feel sorry forI guess all of them It is a story of the couple Dr Christopher Bauer and his wife Hannah, who adopted an abused by her real mom child, Jenie I think they underestimated how hard it is to foster traumatized child.Lucinda Berry is a trauma psychologist and she uses her clinical experience to create psychological thr Jesus, What I ve just read This book is very disturbing but I couldn t put it down My emotions where all over the place because I didn t know who should I feel sorry forI guess all of them It is a story of the couple Dr Christopher Bauer and his wife Hannah, who adopted an abused by her real mom child, Jenie I think they...Audiobook.narrated by Christine Williams Erin Bennett, Dan John MillerThe three voice narrators kept me interested really hooked One reviewer compared this to Baby Teeth Both books deal with a mentally troubled child.But where Baby Teeth was fiction nonsense in which several of my friends who are child therapists agree Baby Teeth being way out in left field one which few therapists vouch it s realistic qualities in which a young child expresses she wants daddy to k Audiobook.narrated by Christine Williams Erin Bennett, Dan John MillerThe three voice narrators kept me interested really hooked One reviewer compared this to Baby Teeth Both books deal with a mentally troubled child.But where Baby Teeth was fiction nonsense in which several of my friends who are child therapists agree Baby Teeth being way out in left field one which few therapists vouch it s realistic qualities in which a young child expresses she wants daddy to kill mommy while watching them have sex The Perfect Child was written by a child trauma therapist I thought it was very plausib...5 Disturbing Stars This book will stay with me for a very long time It was a disturbing and horrifying read but also it was so painfully real that it made my hair stand up on my arms at times It is definitely not an easy read but oh so captivating and so hard to put down I admire any parent that decides to adopt or even foster a child, especially a child that has special needs, mental or physical Christopher and Hanna lived through a spine chilling nightmare, when they adopted Janie, an abu 5 Disturbing Stars This book will stay with me for a very long time It was a disturbing and horrifying read but also it was so painfully real that it made my hair stand up on my arms at times It is definitely not an easy read but oh so captivating and so hard to put down I admire any parent that decides to adopt or even foster a child, especially a child that has special needs, mental or physical Christopher and Hanna lived through a spine chilling nightmare, when they adopted Janie, an abused and mentally disturbed child I felt for Hanna and I wanted her to do well because all she wanted in life was a child, but what she got was a lot of pain and suffering instead And ChristopherwellI just wanted to smack him over the head Even tho...Okay I have been thinking about this book for the past 24 hours as what I am going to write well here it goes it was one disturbing read which I am not sure if I liked it or not I had a few issues with it, first of Christopher got under my skin how could a Orthopaedic surgeon be so gullible, knowing true well what Janie was like even though he thought she was the apple of his eye could not do anything wrong yeah right Piper Goldstein was Janie s social worker she did all that she could t Okay I have been thinking about this book for the past 24 hours as what I am going to write well here it goes it was one disturbing read which I am not sure if I liked it or not I had a few issues with it, first of Christopher got under my skin how could a Orthopaedic surgeon be so gullible, knowing true well what Janie was like even though he thought she was the apple of his eye could not do anything wrong yeah right Piper Goldstein was Janie s social worker she did all that she could to help Hannah Christopher through Janie s adoption but even she fell short, I did Feel for Hannah she was with her all the time in the end she had a complete meltdown coping with a new baby Jani...DNF 15%The fact that anyone can say this book is believable is beyond me You have an abused child, an open investigation and a surgeon nurse couple who can t have kids You mean to tell me that a surgeon would be allowed to hug, kiss and fall asleep on the bed next to a child under these circumstances That any surgeon with any level of professionalism would behave this way This is believable A surgeon who would allow a child patient with whom he has NO relation to other than that of doct DNF 15%The fact that anyone can say this book is believable is beyond me You have an abused child, an open investigation and a surgeon nurse couple who can t have kids You mean to tell me that a surgeon would be allowed to hug, kiss and fall asleep on the bed next to a child under these circumstances That any surgeon with any level of pro...No ending Great story, but then it just stopped It was as if the author got tired and quit Such a disappointment.After years of infertility Dr Christopher Bauer and his wife Hannah, a nurse, gave up the idea of having a biological child When abandoned and battered six year old Janie winds up in the ER, they decide to adopt her Despite warnings from professionals that Janie trauma will take years to heal, if it ever does, the Bauers feel they are equipped Then somebody dies.Readers don t know who the murder victim s is or are until near the end of THE PERFECT CHILD Told from the first person points o After years of infertility Dr Christopher Bauer and his wife Hannah, a nurse, gave up the idea of having a biological child When abandoned and battered six year old Janie winds up in the ER, they decide to adopt her Despite warnings from professionals that Janie trauma will take years to heal, if it ever does, the Bauers feel they are equipped Then somebody dies.Readers don t know who the murder victim s is or are until near the end of THE PERFECT CHILD Told from the first person points of view of Chris, Hannah and Janie s social worker, readers are taken through the precarious road of Janie s adoption Lucinda Berry hit all the right notes with the behaviors of a child with reactive attachment disorder so I wa...
- 07 November 2018 Lucinda Berry
- Hardcover
- 370 pages
- 154204054X
- Lucinda Berry
- The Perfect Child