Gerald's Game
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Gerald and Jessie Burlingame have gone to their summer home on a warm weekday in October for a romantic interlude. After being handcuffed to her bedposts, Jessie tires of her husband's games, but when Gerald refuses to stop she lashes out at him with deadly consequences. Still handcuffed, she is trapped and alone. Painful memories from her childhood bedevil her. Her only company is a hungry stray dog and the sundry voices that populate her mind. As night comes, she is unsure whether it is her imagination or if she has another companion: someone watching her from the corner of her dark bedroom.
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I didn't enjoy this very much. It was slow and pondering in sections and the middle part that goes into detail about her past trauma nearly made me stop reading it. Tempted to see what the movie is like but not a book I'll be recommending to anyone.
An engaging bottle episode. The terror of being physically chained to one spot without hope of salvation is pretty intense. However, this is a façade for the backbone of this story: a woman coming to terms with a childhood trauma inflicted by her father. This trauma may have led her to the very predicament she finds herself in, and with a variety of voices in her head, she must escape before death literally comes knocking.
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