Ward D: A gripping psychological thriller Paperback – January 1, 2023

This book took suspense to a new level. The twist and turns of the story only adds to the suspense and once you hit chapter 40ish the suspense sky rockets and you can kiss putting this book down.Definitely recommend!I read this book in two days during one of the busiest time of my summer and I can confidently say I would do it all again.As a someone who normally reads romance this has made me want to read more mystery and definitely more of this author. So grab your tissues and a comfy spot and take the ride of a lifetime with this astonishing story that is sure to surprise you with every turn of the page.

• A well-written story about Amy (a medical student) and her overnight stay in a psych ward and meeting the denizens therein. The story has excellent pace, with great little cliffhangers at the ends of each chapter to keep you turning the pages. I inhaled this book in a very short time (which is something very rare for me). I loved the incredible pace McFadden was able to maintain, slowly increasing the tension throughout the story. The twists she inserted in the story were also excellent, most of which I did not see coming.• I liked the variety of characters, as well as their uniqueness and vulnerability. Spider-Dan was funny and very memorable, as was Jade. But the other characters (particularly Amy’s ex-boyfriend Cameron and Dr. Beck) could’ve used more description and backfilling. Even the main character, Amy, kind of fell into this bucket for me. In the end, I wasn’t as frightened for Amy as I’d hoped to be when I started the book. Perhaps that’s because I didn’t feel that much attached to her (a fault of the author for not tying me emotionally to Amy).• Overall, I liked the book. It was a fun, exciting read, and a very fast one. At times, though, I found it too unbelievable (the author even admits to some of this in the introduction, that such things would never happen in a psych ward).• The ending wasn’t wholly unexpected, but it does give a satisfying jolt to the reader. While the denouement was necessary, it was just a tiny bit too lengthy for my tastes, and the final handful of paragraphs were just too trite. I think if the author had left the story “on the high road” and not gone down an all-too-familiar finale, it wouldn’t have left me with a final tepid taste.

Worth the read. The story keeps you hooked so you don't want to put the book down; and there is ALWAYS a twist. I perform mental gymnastics trying to figure it out on each of her books. So far, I'm still surprised every time.

This one just wasn't my favorite. It was well written, well done - but I saw the twist coming so early on - I was kind of hoping I was wrong, though.Amy Brenner, a med student, is required to spend the night in Ward D for her rotation. Ward D just so happens to be the hospitals inpatient unit for mental health, a place Amy has visited once before and swore to never go to again. Some of the hospital's most dangerous patients reside there, and the ward is locked - requiring a code to get in and out.After much reluctance and dread, Amy heads to the ward for her shift, and finds her ex boyfriend there to boot. When checking in on the patients, Amy meets some who are terrified they wont make it through the night, all dreading the same person - a person who is confined in a special seclusion room. Amy also happens to recognize one of the names in the unit - one who knows too much about Amy's past. As the hours tick by, people start to go missing, and Amy has few people she can trust. Will she make it through the night?I thought the overall story was good - but the fast that I knew what was coming from when Amy sent her first text message, I was a little deflated by everything. Not only that, but some of the descriptions of the patients and mental health in general seemed a bit outdated. I did like the twist on the very last page - that was a good way to end it!Overall, not my favorite, but definitely worth a read!

Soooo I started this because my sister was like read it it's so good and at first I wasn't liking it because it seemed a bit meh but of course any book about a Psych ward is going to draw you in which this one inevitably did and I glad to report it was a pretty good read but still almost a typical Psych ward kinda book however...I really really wish the author had just left well enough alone at the end of the book because 1. It was unnecessary and 2. It didn't really fit with other parts of the story and felt contradictory and I know she usually does some twist at the end but I felt like with the reveal we already had the twists and didn't need that particular one at all.

I have been reading some heavy books. Even though this was a thriller, it helped to clear my head of some the historical fictions that I love but rather bring me down. I love that I figured out some of the ending even before I finished the book. I do think of myself as a great detective.

I didnt know what to expect. At first I made my hypothesis and as usual with freida McFadden im dead wrong. So many twists and turns i kept running in circles trying to figure out what was happening. So so good!

When you first begin this, you start to think that this is going to be a protagonist who must push their way through a night of difficulty in a psych, and as that may be true, it’s slowly unfolds an unlikely situation created by the protagonist herself.Although very slow towards the middle of the book, the mystery definitely picks up towards the last 10 chapters. There was a lot of movement in the book through time, which made it quite difficult to read continuously as I found the need to want to take breaks as I process the two different timelines constantly flip-flopping every other chapter. Even with the obstacle, it was still a lovely read, and it definitely wondering and wanting to continue so I could find out the end result.