Play The Cards You Are Dealt

        Play The Cards You Are Dealt by Galand Nuchols is the author's tiny step into the world of science fiction, or is ESP really a well hidden fact and not science fiction at all? Eddy Turner is an empath, feeling others' emotions offear, joy, curiosity, pain, etc. Dealing with the constant stimulus of emotional fallout from
people surrounding him daily is difficult.
       Eddy's stepfather is  physically and emotionally abusive to both Eddy and his mother. Their secret plans to escape the man are interrupted when Eddy's second ESP talent makes itself known. Friends of Eddy's blood father are called.  With their help, Eddy and his mother begin a new life in a secret compound where talents are protected and trained to use their special gifts.
       Can Eddy's anger and distrust of people be overcome by these new people in his life? Will he ever have real friends like normal boys his age? When he protests that life isn't fair, he is given the advice he must play the cards he is dealt.

The Girl on the Train

      The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins gets off to confusing start with the narrator imagining the names and lives of people she sees from the train as she rides each day to and from her make-believe job in a nearby city.

       Once the reader gets a grip on the pattern of Ms. Hwkins’ writing style and how she moves from one character’s view to another, the reader will find this novel fascinating.

       Rachel’s fear and depression works its way into the mind of the reader, letting her/him experience, as close as possible, the character’s pain and worry. Questions plague Rachel as she tries to remember how she was injured and why she has blood on her clothes.

       I can truthfully recommend this book, but be prepared to take notes, at least mentally, of who and what is happening in the first couple of chapters. The end knocked this reader for a loop. I just wasn’t prepared for it.