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Delirium (Brooke and Daniel Book 2) Kindle Edition
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In a world gone mad, only the insane can rule.
Still reeling from the death of her beloved daughter, Detective Jamie Brooke needs time to grieve and to heal. What she gets is a call to murder and madness: a prominent psychiatrist has been tortured to death, and it’s up to her to uncover the people responsible, and stop them before they can kill again.
Turning to her friend, Blake Daniel — an antiquities expert cursed with the psychic ability to “see” the bloody histories of objects — Jamie begins an investigation that will take her to the most infamous asylum in history, and a place where insanity is born. A place where rules don’t apply, and where madness is the only law.
She has no idea what she’s getting into. Because Jamie doesn’t know the true history of Bedlam Asylum, the depraved experiments that went on there, or how it leads to the string of murders that could bring the country to its knees.
Worst of all, she doesn’t know about Blake’s connection to Bedlam, to the murders, and to the people willing to execute anyone who stands in their way. And Blake himself doesn’t know the full evil of his own past, or that his gift has put him in the sights of a group who want to use him as a guinea pig for their darkest experiments.
The answers are coming. But some answers bring only pain. Some answers bring only death.
And the worst answers of all bring only DELIRIUM.
The second installment in the thrilling Brooke and Daniel series, Delirium (by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J.F. Penn) presents a chilling world where insanity is the only law, and madness the only way to survive. Get your copy today, and experience Delirium for yourself!
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 18, 2014
- File size1033 KB
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- ASIN : B00LYDWDF2
- Publisher : Curl Up Press (July 18, 2014)
- Publication date : July 18, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 1033 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 344 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1912105500
- Lending : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #719,822 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #947 in Contemporary British Fiction
- #1,671 in Medical Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #1,912 in Psychic Suspense
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About the author

J.F. Penn is the Award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the ARKANE action adventure thrillers, Mapwalker fantasy adventures, and the Brooke & Daniel psychological thrillers as well as other stories.
Her books weave together ancient artifacts, relics of power, international locations and adventure with an edge of the supernatural.
Jo lives in Bath, England and enjoys a nice G&T.
Find out more at www.JFPenn.com
If you enjoy books set in international locations, check out Jo's Books and Travel Podcast: www.BooksAndTravel.page
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This is another wrenching read that offers so much on every level. It's an awesome action-packed ride that opens with a shockingly vivid and creepy murder. A number of equally horrible deaths follow, impacting on Detective Sergeant Jamie Brooke as she grieves for her daughter and tries to continue without her.
The serial killings are so strange and macabre that Jamie is drawn back to life by each subsequent death. Her investigation is the crutch her broken heart needs and once again the character development is stellar. We also learn more about Blake and the hardships of his childhood. The influence of poor parenting is further developed and with greater sophistication, since Blake's Mother loved him and tried to do her best for him, but failed very badly. The same could be said of his Father, but both parents placed the expectations of their culture ahead of their son's wellbeing.
The ugliness of corruption returns in this book, but it is even nastier and further reaching than in Book 1.
However, the central theme of this novel is sanity. How do you even define what is normal? And how does society treat those who clearly fall beyond its definition of sane? Some information was glazed over, for example the existence of drugs that can help mental conditions without turning their users into zombies, but this was a sideline to the specific situations in the story and might easily have turned it into a lecture.
Delirium is a "tale full of sound and fury", but it signifies a great deal. Insights into the human condition come thick and fast to create a work that leaves the reader breathless and satisfied. That said, I can't wait to read Book 3.
Warning: graphic violence and vivid imagery abound.
The research is excellent, as usual, but Delirium also has all the power and gravitas of Desecration.
I would have loved to learn more about Blake Daniel, I loved his character from the first novel in the series, Desecration. We got a little teaser about him when we found out that his estranged father was dying and he returned home. We even met his mother, but all of that was glazed over.
Blake has special powers that allows him to see the history of an object by holding on to it. Neat right? Not so much if you’re Blake, some of the things that he sees are absolutely horrendous! One scene that stuck out in my mind was of him seeing demons opening his dying father’s skull and eating his brain. Blake finds his father’s grimoire, and of course I wanted to know more, but Blake was kidnapped and that was kind of the end of that.
I would have liked to see more interaction between Blake and Jamie, they have such awesome similarities; they are both such broken characters and it left me yearning for them to turn to each other. Their paths crossed when Jamie asked him to help her on a case she was working on (Jamie is a detective), but Blake declined because he was dealing with facing his dying father who treated him like a demon seed all his life. By the way, his father was a man of the cloth. Jamie and Blake meet again towards the end. I’m not going to say more on that because I don’t want to give away anything. I would have prefered to read more about Blake than the politician. I love the way it ended, it had me shouting “you go girl!” about Jamie’s character’s making the decision to make her own destiny.
Overall I enjoyed this story but it didn’t connect for me like Desecration. Thank goodness I bought the next book in the series, Deviance I started reading it right away. It is the final book in the trilogy and I can’t wait to see where J.F. takes it.
One of the things I really love about J.F.’s novels are the research that she puts into it to make sure everything is accurate. At the back of the book she shares her experiences and I really appreciate that. Thank you J.F. for reminding us that we all have a little “crazy” in us and that is quite normal.
There's action, intrigue, evil government agencies at work, mind altering chemicals on the loose, major discoveries she's been searching for, and the thought that just maybe she...(sorry-no spoilers here). Poor Blake has a bit of a rough time but comes to some of his own conclusions.
I charged my way through this series right after the ARKANE series. What a ride! J.F. Penn has quickly become one of my favorite authors to follow. Why didn't I find her works sooner?
My only problem with the book is the next one is still one month away, and I want to know if Blake OK and what the Detective decides to do.
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This book delves into the history of treatments given to people with mental illness and the medical profession’s opinions on people with psychic abilities. It is clear that it is an area that interests the author. She writes in-depth passages about treatments and they come across as compassionate to those being treated.
This book can be read as a standalone novel, but would be better read after Desecration so that you can better understand the developing relationship between Jamie and Blake, and what is causing Jamie to think and behave the way she does.
I thoroughly enjoyed the darkness of this book. The treatment of the mentally ill was (and can be) appalling, and whilst you can only imagine what it must have been like to be strapped into a tranquilizer chair, the author makes it so much easier for your mind to do so.
I also appreciated the personal note added by the author after the end of the story. I agree with her about how “there is a spectrum of madness in all of us, it’s just a matter of degree.”
Excellent.
The storyline is exciting and believable, a huge amount of research has obviously been carried out, and the characterisations and descriptions are faultless. It isn't always an easy book to read, mainly because it raises a lot of questions about the subject, but it is an enthralling read.
I really recommend this book, it is excellent on so many levels.
This exciting yet frightening new thriller follows Jamie (a Detective Sergeant) and Blake (a reluctant psychic) as they take on a case centring on mental illness. The unique insights into the mentally ill, their experiences and how they are and were ‘treated’ are truly frightening.
This book is not for the faint-hearted but I like that it makes me consider the more dark and disturbing non-fiction side of life for a change while wrapped up in an entertaining story.














