“In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox’s main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake. Raised on a diet of evangelistic hellfire, Bethany is violent, delusional, cruelly intuitive and insistent that she can foresee natural disasters – a claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of doomsday delusion. But when catastrophes begin to occur on the very dates Bethany has predicted, and a brilliant, gentle physicist enters the equation, the apocalyptic puzzle intensifies and the stakes multiply. Is the self-proclaimed Nostradamus of the psych ward the ultimate manipulator, or could she be the harbinger of imminent global cataclysm on a scale never seen before? And what can love mean in ‘interesting times’? A haunting story of human passion and burning faith set against an adventure of tectonic proportions, “The Rapture” is an electrifying psychological thriller that explores the dark extremes of mankind’s self-destruction in a world on the brink.”
I found The Rapture reasonably difficult to get into at first, with it taking until around page 60 for the story to have grabbed my attention properly. The first chapter didn’t seem quite real, with the psychotic teenage murderess, Bethany Krall, seeming to me more like a comic book villain than a supposedly accurate character. As you read further into the book though, Bethany’s character does become more real and you start to understand her way of thinking more.
At points in the book I found some of the events to be too far-fetched, and perhaps more at home in a fantasy or science fiction genre.
I was a little disappointed when I first started reading this, as I expected it to be different in some way. But saying this, I did really enjoy reading it, and despite it’s oddity, I would still highly recommend it.
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