Ward D

By: Freida McFadden

Narrated by: Leslie Howard

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward.

Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out.

And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger.

Amy’s worst nightmare was spending the night on Ward D.

And now she might never escape.

©2023 Freida McFadden (P)2023 Hollywood Upstairs Press

Amy is a little ridiculous

The premise of the story is excellent. The problem I had with it is that someone who is a third-year medical student which makes her 24- 25 years old and allegedly smart, seemed to do such stupid things during her medical school time. The high school stuff is different. Everyone’s immature. She made some bad decisions. Fine. But thinking there might be scissors at a nursing station in a psych ward that’s locked down? Ridiculously stupid.. Not listening to her gut when she was trying to escape the psych ward and just satisfied her curiosity?. Ridiculously stupid. Knowing that she hallucinated that little girl, but didn’t take pictures of other things that she’s certain she saw? Stupid; she did have a phone with her and it would take a picture even without a signal. Ridiculously stupid. So, again, could’ve been a really, really really good story had too many details that were,, frankly, (again) ridiculous . The narrator was good except for the way she said iced tea. We like diction from our narrators but that was over the top.

Unique and Surprising, but…

I really wanted to love this book. However, it was written from the perspective of a 24-year-old, so immature. Amy was naive and too easily swayed by several other characters. I finished the book because I wanted to find how how it ended. Lots of twists and turns did hold my interest.

Loved being on Ward D, WANT MORE!!

Ward D leaves you wanting more. The insight into this psychiatric world is hypnotic. Freida takes you on a journey, and teaches you along the way. I can only hope this is the beginning of series, because I am in love with Ward D.

So good!

what an amazing read! freida doesn't disappoint as usual. twist was great and story flowed really well, lovable characters too. highly recommend!

Unexpected twist

Great read. Only took me a day to finish. Highly recommend if you like being on the edge of your seat the whole time.