Published: March 24, 2020
Series: NA
Format: eGalley ARC (NetGalley)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Available: BN | Amazon
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Lakewood is a good for what it is, a medical thriller and
being that this is the author’s debut novel…IMO, it was satisfactory.
I wouldn’t put Lakewood in the realm of scary but there were
some intense weird moments throughout the read especially as our main
protagonists Lena Johnson starts working for the mysterious organization The
Great Lakes Shipping Company. Lena, an already struggling college student is
forced to take care of her desperately ill mother after the death of the family’s
patriarch. Needing the money that is being offered, she decides being a part of
a secret research facility is worth it…until it isn’t.
With a nice amount of mentions of race, social class, and
financial disparity… Lakewood gives the reader a glimpse in what happens when
the most vulnerable populations are conned and taken advantage of. The story
itself sort of gives you that “Get Out” feel. There were at times, the story
felt a bit discombobulated as we quickly switch getting the story directly from
Lena to where we are being told the story in the form of Lena telling the
reader the story in letter form. Letters she is writing to her friend Tanya.
Lakewood at the end of the day delivered exactly what it was
meant to me: a medical horror thriller that will keep you on the edge of your
seat while giving its reader a “realness” that is draped in reality.
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