Genre:
Suspense
Suspense
The Healing Knife
by S.L. Russell
| -From Goodreads- To Rachel Keyte death is the enemy. The early loss of her beloved father from heart failure ignited a single-minded determination in her: to save as many patients as she can, and to become a consultant before the age of forty. Everything else – friendship, love, empathy – is sacrificed to her obsession. Now Rachel’s surgical skills are twelve-year-old Craig’s only hope for a normal life. His mother Eve holds a deep distrust of doctors, and her son is all she has. Reluctantly, she agrees for the operation to go ahead. But surgery is never predictable, nor is a devastated mother’s terrifying reaction. Eve, it seems, wants a life for a life... ISBN-13: 9781782643036 Before healing comes the pain of brokenness... |  This Book received a 4 Bark rating.
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Well now, I'm not sure what I was expecting but it was not what I got in The Healing Knife. I guess I was anticipating a straight on romantic suspense, but no, S.L. Russell had a lot more in store for our heroine and for readers. Sure, there are some definite suspense elements, tragedy and a crazed stalker, but even more this book asks the questions of how a person would deal with the trauma, the staggering emotions, and the general aftermath from such frightening events.
Rachel really thinks that she's got life by the tail...until one day she doesn't. She isn't close to her family and she let go of whatever faith she had as a child so she really has nothing and no one to rely on her world is completely tilted of its axis. But then she meets people with faith despite hard times, finds a place of peace where she can start to heal, and lets a four-legged friend into her life. I think that was my favorite part of The Healing Knife, author S.L. Russell's accurate portrayal of Rachel's slow transformation from grief to healing, and, maybe someday even to forgiveness.
I'm just going to say it. One of the most interesting things about reading this story is, as an American reader, seeing the differences between American and British Christian suspense. Drinking and sex outside of marriage are not quite as frowned upon, though often painted as a crutch, and even faith is expressed differently. I found the cultural differences to be quite fascinating. At times it was reminiscent of reading a Mary Stewart novel, she is probably my favorite British author, and I liked that.
Whether you love British fiction from actual British authors, like gritty Christian suspense, or just want see a little of the world through fiction, S.L. Russell's novel The Healing Knife might be up your alley.
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives The Healing Knife by S.L. Russell a 4 Bark rating.
Rachel really thinks that she's got life by the tail...until one day she doesn't. She isn't close to her family and she let go of whatever faith she had as a child so she really has nothing and no one to rely on her world is completely tilted of its axis. But then she meets people with faith despite hard times, finds a place of peace where she can start to heal, and lets a four-legged friend into her life. I think that was my favorite part of The Healing Knife, author S.L. Russell's accurate portrayal of Rachel's slow transformation from grief to healing, and, maybe someday even to forgiveness.
I'm just going to say it. One of the most interesting things about reading this story is, as an American reader, seeing the differences between American and British Christian suspense. Drinking and sex outside of marriage are not quite as frowned upon, though often painted as a crutch, and even faith is expressed differently. I found the cultural differences to be quite fascinating. At times it was reminiscent of reading a Mary Stewart novel, she is probably my favorite British author, and I liked that.
Whether you love British fiction from actual British authors, like gritty Christian suspense, or just want see a little of the world through fiction, S.L. Russell's novel The Healing Knife might be up your alley.
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives The Healing Knife by S.L. Russell a 4 Bark rating.
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