An Impossible Dilemma

A Psychological Thriller Novel

Fiction - Thriller - General
276 Pages
Reviewed on 11/20/2016
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Reviewed by Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite

An Impossible Dilemma: A Psychological Thriller Novel by Netta Newbound poses a difficult question. How far will a mother go to save the life of her child? Victoria and Jonathon Lyon are a young, professional couple, fun-loving and happy, until their five-year-old daughter is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Trials of a treatment involving stem cells have been abandoned; the donors died within a day, so doctors have no hope to offer. After Jonathon’s accidental death Victoria is raped, but she overcomes her attacker with potentially deadly results. She has an evil man at her mercy, veterinary skill, a father-in-law who is an ex-butcher, a remote farm, and a sick child. Will a mother’s love prevail over conscience and justice?

“Is this how serial killers are born?” This is Victoria’s agonised internal question in An Impossible Dilemma: A Psychological Thriller Novel. Netta Newbound has created a world based firmly in reality, centred on a rural English community, and has given Victoria an impossible dilemma that leads the reader down an increasingly terrifying path of horror. Emily is Victoria’s everything, especially after the tragic death of her husband. With the help of Frank, her elderly father-in-law, she obtains the fluid that tests proved worked and injects it into Emily, with miraculous results. She has extended her time with her precious daughter by six months. When Emily sickens again, can Victoria bear to see her suffer and die? An Impossible Dilemma is the most horrific and powerful thriller I have ever read.

Susan Tarr

I held my breath while reading this book. I was constantly assailed with thoughts of how far I would have gone to save my young daughter--that situation was taken from me. But this story? Riveting and heartbreaking at the same time. An excellent flow and appreciation of this mother's dilemma.