Shock Point
By April Henry
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Medicine is not always about helping people. Sometimes psychiatrists aren’t even trying to keep their patients alive. When extreme sums of money are going into the pockets of some doctors, they don’t care who they hurt. Cassie Johnson’s stepfather, Rick, is a psychiatrist making money off of clinical trials of a new drug, Socom. Socom is a wonder drug, promised to keep teens from making bad decisions. Socom has not yet been approved by the FDA, but the only one keeping it away from being approved is Cassie, who knows that Socom can kill. Rick needs to get rid of Cassie.
Shock Point is very suspenseful. At some points, I got frustrated with many of the characters. Henry writes in third person, so there is a narrator; this way, we can see many characters' point of view. Please check out Shock Point, you won’t be able to put it down until you turn the last page.
4 comments:
This sounds like a good thriller, interesting premise.
It is! I just had to finish it in one sitting, because there is so much suspense and action involved.
i couldnt read it. Completely unrealistic to have ONE doctor check out a drug's side effects. ONE doctor who is not even interested in keeping people healthy. ONE doctor who knows that a drug can kill. AND the drug keeps people from behaving badly... there are so many different forms of bad and wrong, and good for one person can be bad for another. Impossible to alter personallity with a drug to that extent for everyone who takes it.
It is a strange setting. The drug makes kids obey their parents by "fixing" some chemical in the brain. The setting doesn't completly focus on a bad doctor, it mainly is about an abusive mental hospital. Its isn't completly unrealistic.
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