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I\u2019ll just start by saying<\/strong> that I really enjoyed this book. Christopher Greyson has shown great promise in producing his series of \u201cJack\u201d thrillers, all of which I\u2019ve reviewed. But he\u2019s knocked it out of the park with The Girl Who Lived<\/a><\/em>, a stand-alone novel.<\/p>\n Faith Winter\u2019s thirteenth birthday party turned into a life-altering nightmare. At her family\u2019s vacation cabin, her father, her sister, her best friend, and the friend\u2019s mother were slaughtered, and Faith barely escaped. She told the police the killer was a \u201crat-faced man\u201d who chased her through the woods, but they don\u2019t believe her. They call it a murder-suicide, and blame her father as the culprit.<\/p>\n Faith\u2019s life spiraled into a maelstrom of dysfunction after that. She became an alcoholic and spent time in mental hospitals and prison. Now, ten years later, she is being released on parole, required to attend AA and survivors\u2019 group meetings, and to look for a job.<\/p>\n She has no real interest in getting sober, or even in living. The only thing that\u2019s keeping her alive is her dream of locating the rat-faced man. But she meets a female FBI agent who believes her story, and then she indeed sees the rat-faced man, briefly, on the streets of her home town. Also, someone is playing tricks on her, making her look crazy. Or is she crazy? Even paranoids sometimes have real enemies, after all.<\/p>\n She doesn\u2019t know whom to trust. There\u2019s no one in her world she doesn\u2019t have some reason to suspect. Nevertheless, the last betrayal will surpass even her fantasies.<\/p>\n It might be a personal thing, but this story drew me in as few ever have. We get a close-up (and very harrowing) view of the world of sufferers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The cynicism that makes the best advice seem shallow \u2013 because it doesn\u2019t apply to a problem like mine<\/em>. The sense that, even if I was innocent when I was victimized, I\u2019m not innocent anymore. The damage is done, and I\u2019m not like other people.<\/p>\n The Girl Who Lived<\/em> is a challenging, moving book that may be hard for some readers to handle. A Christian element is present, and it\u2019s very welcome in the circumstances.<\/p>\n Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ll just start by saying that I really enjoyed this book. Christopher Greyson has shown great promise in producing his series of \u201cJack\u201d thrillers, all of which I\u2019ve reviewed. But he\u2019s knocked it out of the park with The Girl Who Lived, a stand-alone novel. Faith Winter\u2019s thirteenth birthday party turned into a life-altering nightmare. … Continue reading ‘The Girl Who Lived,’ by Christopher Greyson<\/span>