Book Review: Unwell

 


Two women. One asylum. Deadly secrets.


When nineteen-year-old Ginny’s mother abandons her at Wellard Asylum, she isn’t sick. She’s pregnant. Behind the iron gates patients cower, the rules are broken, and the basement hides evils that would make monsters squirm. Ginny only has one keep her baby safe, no matter what.


Nurse Nancy once believed hospitals were for healing the vulnerable. At Wellard, she’s learned to keep her head down while the powerful play god. That is, until Ginny shows up. Young, scared, and pretty, Ginny gets under Nancy’s skin fast. Protecting a patient means stepping out of orchestrated lines, and Nancy will be forced to choose where her loyalty lies.


As storms gather, Ginny and Nancy are pulled into a tightening spiral of control, lust, and institutional cruelty. And sometimes, the only way out is to become the worst thing you can imagine.


Dark, visceral and relentless, UNWELL is a psychological horror novel exploring the descent into the places we lock people, and the stories we tell ourselves to justify holding the key.


Open the gates to Wellard, but be careful, few ever escape.


My Review

I am already a fan of Effie's books. After reading this one, I am going to need Effie to write more horror books. This book is one of the strongest in this series. It really lent into the Wellard Asylum location. This book is a mindf@ck! The best kind. A must read. 

I felt for both Nancy and Ginny. My mind was spinning as I tried to figure out what was real and what might be just all in Ginny's mind or was all of it real. A true psychological horror. My mind went way left field with one possibility that at the way the story was going, I would not have actually been surprised if it had turned out the way I imagined. Yet, it did not turn out that way. 

The ending may have been something I saw coming but not fully. It still shocked me, and I love it. 

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