Written by a therapist, Visible deals with a therapist, Rachel Karem, who is leading a ten-week group therapy session in an attempt to get five of her clients who seem to have hit their individual impasses at dealing with their various emotional traumas. She hopes they will build enough of a rapport to open up completely to each other.
In addition to seeing the five clients’ lives, the reader sees Rachel herself, with the aid her own therapist Alexandra, come to terms with her own family dynamics: the death of a beloved spouse and the abandonment by her twin sister as well as the deaths of that twin and their parents.
Because there are so many characters, I found it hard to get attached to any of them in any depth. Each of them has enough trauma to be a book in itself rather than being crammed into a single volume. There are multiple happy endings, with several of the therapy clients becoming involved with each other, and the author seems to have tried a bit too hard to achieve these. Rachel finds a new love on her first outing where she stretches herself to expand her horizons by learning to tango which in itself is highly improbable, plus a decades old failed relationship with her nephew (son of the twin sister) magically is healed with no effort on either her or the nephew’s part. All this left me unable to suspend disbelief.
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Visible (WordCrafts Press, May 14, 2024) is available through:
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