Books Read: The Waiting Room by Emily Bleeker

Ever since her husband’s death collided with the birth of her daughter, postpartum depression has taken hold of Veronica Shelton. She can’t sleep, can’t work, and can’t bear to touch her beautiful baby girl. Her emotional state is whispering lies in Veronica’s ear: You’re a bad mother. Your baby would be better off without you. But not everything can be reasoned away by Veronica’s despair. Can it?

After all, the break-in at her house happened. The disturbing sketches she found in her studio are real. So is the fear for her daughter’s safety—especially when Veronica comes home to a cold, silent nursery and a missing baby.

As she turns from victim into primary suspect, Veronica realizes that only she can find her daughter. Authorities aren’t helping. They’re only watching. Veronica’s concerned mother has suddenly vanished from her life. And a new friend seems to be keeping secrets from her too. Now, reality is waiting for Veronica in a dark place—because someone’s mind games have only just begun.

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I'd like to thank Sian at ED Public Relations for inviting me to be a part of this blog tour and for sending me a copy of The Waiting Room to review.

I really don't know where to start with this review as there's so much I want to say but can't because of the fear of revealing spoilers.  What I will say is that The Waiting Room is a tension-filled, suspense novel that reels you in from the opening chapter.  Our first encounter with the central character Veronica Shelton shows a young woman waking up in a house with her husband and daughter missing.

What follows is the story of how Veronica attempts to move on with her life, but how do you go on living when the one person you loved more than anything in the world has gone?  A move to a new town with her mother was supposed to be a fresh start but if anything it's made her depression worse.  She struggles to cope with the memories and keeps certain things a secret from people that she crosses paths with but she's not alone as they have their own fair share of secrets too...

Veronica was such an unreliable narrator, it was obvious from the start that she was really suffering with the pain and grief of losing a loved one but the more you read, the more you realised that you had to read between the lines to work out how much of what was being told was real and how much of it was in her head.  As I was reading I had my suspicions as to where the story was going but how wrong was I, I was caught completely off-guard when the story went in a whole other direction that I didn't see coming at all!

Emily Bleeker is a new author to me but if her other books are as cleverly written and as suspenseful as The Waiting Room then I have yet more books to add to my wishlist.