Book description
Teenager Paige Abernathy awakens after a severe beating to find that she suffers from amnesia, and that everyone seems to hate her.
She has only flashes of memory until the night a grieving parent attacks her in her hospital room. Paige then remembers her role as creator of an online…
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1 author picked The Samaritan's Patient as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The cast of characters is fascinating. There are very few “normal” people. But then, in real life, there are very few normal people as well. We all want to think we’re normal, but we’re not. Everyone has their idiosyncrasies, their oddities, their uniqueness. And Mr. Ross has put together a wonderful collection of people that Paige encounters on her journey. Some help, some hinder.
The pace of the story moves well. I didn’t want to put it down and usually read much larger chunks than I had originally planned. Mr. Ross has created a page-turner without needing suspense or…
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