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Behind Closed Doors

B.A. Paris

Start date: March 1, 2020

Finish date: March 31, 2020

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Nov 12, 2016 ☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horrible-families

This world has many sorts of closed doors. Some of them people close on themselves, others on people closest to them and on other pepople in general. The most scary part is that I know for a fact that many people's lives either use or are used in some or other variation of such techniques'.

Another dangerous idea implicitly described here is that people tend to be inflexible in their worldview. Just ask someone homeless how 'easy' it is to upgrade back to home life. Ask someone getting better af This world has many sorts of closed doors. Some of them people close on themselves, others on people closest to them and on other pepople in general. The most scary part is that I know for a fact that many people's lives either use or are used in some or other variation of such techniques'.

Another dangerous idea implicitly described here is that people tend to be inflexible in their worldview. Just ask someone homeless how 'easy' it is to upgrade back to home life. Ask someone getting better after a potentially life-changing illness how people will perceive them in terms of strength and capabilities. Most of us become adherents of how we have seen the world before. We rarely question our formed perceptions or ask ourselves if we had been wrong or if something has changed along the way. If we see a woman with a 'prolonged history of maniacal depression' we might be not ready to accept her claims of violent treatment, especially when there are no outward signs of just that.

There are things in this world that you can literally shout from rooftops about and no one would believe you. People tend to remember the worst and to expect the best so when you inform them of the worst happening they are not generally inclined to be entirely rational about that. This is probably why the whole situation from this novel is borderline both monstrous and trivial.

This is chilling. Chilling pretty much to the bones. Still fakey a bit. Somehow, I'm not sure this is realistic enough. The cause for such impression is that it's just another general tendency of people to underestimate the pain of mental suffering in comparison to physical. Overall it's a nerve-tickling cautionary tale.

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Once outside, I help myself to fruit and pancakes and find a table in the corner, wondering if anyone else in the world has been as fooled by a man as I was. It seems strange that I’ll never be able to tell anyone what I’ve been through, never be able to tell them about the monster I was married to, not if everything turns out as I hope it will.
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I walk into the bathroom. The shower stands in the corner, concealed behind opaque doors, which means I can’t use it as there is always the possibility, however slight, that I may come out and find Jack standing on the other side of them. I look at the bath and work out that if I leave the door open, as well as that of the bedroom, I’ll be able to see through to the sitting room and, so, the main door. Reassured, I fill the bath, strip off my clothes and lower myself tentatively into the hot water. As it rises up around my shoulders, the tension that engulfed me the moment I heard Jack step into the house at three o’clock the previous afternoon melts away and I begin to cry in huge racking sobs, which tear from my body at an alarming rate.
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Oct 01, 2021 Kristina Masone rated it really liked it

I was thrilled and I felt sick and uncomfy the entire time I read this book, but I could NOT put it down.

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Aug 08, 2017 Bedelia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite-stand-alones, heroine-is-kick-ass, didn-t-see-that-coming, narrator-amazing, own, favorite-authors, trigger-warning, suspense, mental-illness-or-not, devoured

Wow! What a rollercoaster ride!!! Great book! Trigger warning (abuse).

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Mar 05, 2020 Noni Fro (Janon) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: library

Wow, just wow is all I have to say. I literally couldn't put this book down. I had to keep reading to find out what happens from chapter to chapter. ...more

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