When Through Deep Waters
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4.6 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Alicen McCaffrey finally has the life her mother always dreamed for her: beautiful home in Santa Monica, successful husband, adorable daughter. Then tragedy blows her carefully assembled façade to pieces. Worse yet—Alicen feels solely responsible. At rock bottom, she decides to accompany a childhood friend back to Red Lodge, Montana, where they spent summers together as kids.
The peaceful mountain landscape, accented with lush forests and small-town charm, brings back happy memories of time spent with her beloved, eccentric Grandma Josephine. Alicen begins to hope that perhaps things could be different here. Perhaps the oppressive guilt will lift—if only for a moment.
But when Alicen starts hearing voices and seeing mysterious figures near the river in the woods, she begins to fear she’s completely lost her sanity, as it’s rumored her grandmother did. Or might there be more to Red Lodge than meets the eye? Could the voices and visions be real—and her only means of finding the healing she so desperately needs? Or will they prove to be her final undoing?
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Dekker (the Seer trilogy) turns away from dystopian themes to tell an intricate psychological suspense story with fine shades of the fantastical. Alicen McCaffrey is satisfied with her life in Santa Monica, Calif. Although she believes her husband may not be faithful, she finds joy in her five-year-old daughter, Jane. But when Jane dies in a tragic accident in the backyard pool, Alicen feels she has lost everything, including her will to live. To give herself time to heal, Alicen leaves her husband behind to move back to her childhood home of Red Lodge, Mont., and enter a mental health outpatient treatment program at Clover Mountain Retreat Center. Although she receives therapy, she has trouble feeling she has the right to heal due to her failure to care for Jane. During her daily walks around the center's grounds, Alicen begins to have visions that plague her memories of her grandmother from their time spent together in the surrounding land and visions of little children "with faces expressionless and haunting." Suffering from guilt and certain that the visions are signs she is inflicted by more than just grief, Alicen begins to engage her visions and finds she must truly understand forgiveness in order to heal. Tackling topics of grief and mental illness, Dekker has crafted a story that is hauntingly hopeful.
Customer Reviews
WHEN THROUGH DEEP WATERS
WHEN THROUGH DEEP WATERS. By. Rachel. Dekker.
The story follows Alicen the tragedy in her life, and how she deals with it, and how it helped others that were around her. Strong gospel aspect woven nicely thru the story, as a support thread without being preachy. First I have read by her, and the plot flowed nicely to the end. The character
of Alichen was well presented, and story was well told.
Received ARC from Net Galley and Tyndale for my voluntary review and my honest opinion.