There's so many ways this story could have gone, I slowly started to put the pieces together. At about 60% into the book I was certain where it was headed, and I was correct. Though I must admit, briefly I started to change my mind. I thought maybe the story was headed in a different direction, but soon realized that's what Jennifer Jaynes wants the reader to think. Well played Jennifer, well played. Even though I had predicted where it was headed, I was not at all disappointed with how it played out. This is a great psychological thriller! And holy crap!! That ending!!! Totally mind blown! Nothing is at it seems in this thriller! The twists and turns. I can honestly say, I've never had an author surprise me the way Jennifer Jaynes did. Disturbed is a fast paced psychological thriller that’s keeps you guessing till the end. Lots Of twists and turns with an unexpected ending. My first by Jennifer Jaynes but definitely won’t be my last. Christina Bethell, PhD, MBH, MPH Professor of Child Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Twenty-three-year-old Chelsea Dutton is safe and sane. She is still paranoid and fearful. No one is out to get her. Not anymore. These words had been her mantra for almost five years. I like that we see the beginning, how it started. Usually with dystopias the book starts and the dystopia is well in place and we never really get to know how it happened or evolved to that. But in this book, you feel the transition, the panic that the main character goes through when she understands her new reality. I liked that. – Readers review Dark and Quirky Summer - Carian Cole, Kate Canterbary, Lena Hendrix and C.W. Farnsworth — Regular price In this stimulating book that eloquently describes the effects of one’s biography on mind, brain, and body, Nakazawa guides us through a step by step path to recovery. This work represents an invaluable source of hope and inspiration for anyone who is suffering from the aftermath of early adverse experience.” A step by step recounting of the brutal and pointless killing of the Clutter family. A true story, based on interviews Capote had with the murderers.I absolutely loved this book! I'm a huge fan of books where a character is being stalked, or feels like they are being stalked, so Disturbed was right up my alley. I absolutely loved Chelsea as our protagonist, and most of the book was told from her point of view, though there were a few additional POVs, especially at the end of the book, but I think they worked really well in this book in lending to the creepy nature of the story. Chelsea is a decent protagonist. She survived a horrific night, and though she still bears scars (figuratively and literally) of her awful experience, she is moving on with her life and doing what she can to put it all behind her. There are themes touched upon with Chelsea that make sense. Survivor’s guilt being the biggest one. There’s also the difficulty with making lasting connections, which is almost a given due to her foster home upbringing. She’s also kind of a contradiction…she runs 5 miles a day, but eats almost nothing but pizza and Hungry Man microwave dinners. But, I guess with the constitution of a 23 year old, you can get away with that. She’s reclusive, which make sense given her past experiences. And she’s struggling with memory loss, which makes her question some of what she sees. It’s an interesting mix, as she’s determined and motivated, but she’s also basically programmed to doubt what is real and therefore can hardly make any forward progress. She’s essentially her own unreliable narrator. Those were the words on Nov 1, 2010, the morning after Halloween. Three women who attended Springfield College. 911 was called. The young officer Brandon was the first responder. Childhood Disrupted is a timely book that summarizes the effects of childhood adversity, incorporating the current science in a very personalized and approachable way. The more we understand about childhood adversity and its imprint on our body and brain, the more we can help each other recover from its harmful effects. This is an important read for anyone looking to help those afflicted by childhood adversity, whether personally or in a caring role such as parents, teachers, and health care workers.”

There are many twists and turns as Lang reopens the investigation and the pace of the book increases along with the suspense. Life of a Jew in the Auschwitz concentration camp, as written by a Jew who survived Auschwitz concentration camp. It's a series of short stories that refer to a fictional play called The King in Yellow that makes its readers go insane. It's extremely creepy and frightening in an usual way. You learn almost nothing about the play, but what you do learn is extremely scary. I think it's also so scary because it was written in 1895." A truly important gift of understanding—illuminates the heartbreaking costs of childhood trauma and like good medicine offers the promising science of healing and prevention.” I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us,” Franz Kafka once wrote. “If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?”Five years ago on Halloween night Chelsea and her friends were celebrating a birthday party when both her friends were killed and Chelsea was found brutally stabbed hanging on to her dear life.Now years later she still has no memories of that night and leads a secluded life.But then when she receives a scary note her worst fears come true as she knows she’s being hunted again A World War 1 soldier is hit by an exploding artillery shell and loses his arms, legs, eyes, teeth, tongue and ears. His mind however is intact, and he learns to communicate in Morse code by banging his head against the pillow. I really liked this one. It’s one of those psychological thrillers that you’ll enjoy it! It’s well-written and fast-paced. Told in multiple POV, 3rd person. It’s a stand-alone novel. It was truly enjoyable for me and hope you like it, too!

Chelsea barely survives a horrific murder at Halloween which sees her 2 flat mates slaughtered. She is stabbed, slashed and bleeding out when Lang and his police colleagues arrive. Her life is saved and she recovers physically, albeit scarred. Mentally the scars will never heal and she spends some time in a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide.

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My own doctor at Johns Hopkins medical institutions confessed to me that she suspected that, given the chronic stress I’d faced in my childhood, my body and brain had been marinating in toxic inflammatory chemicals my whole life—predisposing me to the diseases I now faced.