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Reviewed by Viga Boland for Readers' Favorite
L.J. Sellers has a new fan: me! In fact, she has lots of fans if you consider the fact that she has written 23 novels, is a 5-time Readers Favorite Award winner, and is one of the highest rated crime fiction writers on Amazon. And I won’t be surprised if she wins another award with The Other. What a fabulous read! Fifteen-year-old Logan is incarcerated…that’s the only really suitable word…in a mental institution where he doesn’t belong, and hallucinates…or so it seems…about seeing a boy who looks just like him beyond the barbed wire fences surrounding his prison. Are his hallucinations being caused by the painful shock treatments he receives? His Aunt Shay, whom Logan loves, wants him out of there, any way, any how. So she hires former CIA agent, Rox, and her retired step-father, Marty, to extract him from the institution. Not only is their task a difficult and dangerous one, but if they get Logan out how do they determine whether he won’t endanger himself or others?
Their efforts to locate his mother, who put him into the institution in the first place, and to find out why she did so, prove equally difficult. It becomes obvious a cover-up of some kind is going on and someone is paying plenty to keep Logan inside and sedated. As well, there is something weird about the institution’s director, and the governor’s rush to close the facility and move inmates elsewhere, all of which complicates the extraction. And then, just when the extraction gets underway, Aunt Shay can’t be located.
The plot thickens, the pace increases with every page and except for Logan, Rox and Marty, the characters get darker and more sinister with every page. Talk about a psychological thriller! I found myself holding my breath at times, and just when I thought the motivations and complications had all been resolved, L.J. Sellers threw more twists into the novel. This is one story that isn’t over till it’s truly over on the last page. Readers will come away curious, thinking about what they read, tossing up the possibilities and probabilities, and hungry for more L.J. Sellers! Good thing she has so many other books fans can add to their library. Try The Gender Experiment. I couldn’t put that one down either. Easily 5 stars!
