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Phantom Limb: A Gripping Psychological Thriller Paperback – December 15, 2016

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Emily and Elizabeth spend their childhood locked in a bedroom and terrorized by a mother who drinks too much and disappears for days. The identical twins are rescued by a family determined to be their saviors.

But there’s some horrors love can’t erase…

Elizabeth wakes in a hospital, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak. The last thing she remembers is finding Emily’s body in their bathroom. Days before, she was falling in love and starting college. Now, she’s surrounded by men who talk to themselves and women who pull out their eyebrows.

As she delves deeper into the mystery surrounding Emily’s death, she discovers shocking secrets and holes in her memory that force her to remember what she’s worked so hard to forget—the beatings, the blood, the special friends. Her life spins out of control at a terrifying speed as she desperately tries to unravel the psychological puzzle of her past before it’s too late.

Phantom Limb is a character-driven mystery that begs to be read in a single setting. The shocking and shattering conclusion will make you go back and read it again.

Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train, Behind Closed Doors, and The Girl With No Past.

"Dark suspense at its finest"...Thriller Beats
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  1. I understood why Emily spent so much time sleeping. It was the closest you could get to death without physically dying.
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Dr. Lucinda Berry is a trauma psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma. She uses her clinical experience to create disturbing psychological thrillers, blurring the lines between fiction and nonfiction.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 15, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 258 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1541034953
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1541034952
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.65 x 9 inches
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Dr. Lucinda Berry is a former clinical psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma. Now, she spends her days writing full-time where she uses her clinical experience to blur the line between fiction and nonfiction. She enjoys taking her readers on a journey through the dark recesses of the human psyche. Her work has been optioned for film and translated into multiple languages.

If Berry isn’t chasing after her son, you can find her running through Los Angeles, prepping for her next marathon. To hear about her upcoming releases and other author news, visit her on social media or sign up for her newsletter at https://lucindaberry.com/.

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Staci Hayden
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Book
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2024
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This was a great read, full of highs and lows. I really enjoyed the clinical part of the book and how it added so much to the story.
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Monica
4.0 out of 5 stars Wow!! (With many dashes of trigger warnings)
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2023
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4/5 stars!! 

This is the first book I've read of this author but boy am I glad I've discovered her! She writes mainly psychological thrillers and this one was very good, in my opinion, despite the somewhat graphic and horrific nature. Her books most definitely come with multiple trigger warnings but the content makes for good mysteries. I am excited to dive into other books she has written. 

Phantom Limb is about a set of twins, Elizabeth and Emily, who's beginnings were not at all ideal for small children. They were routinely left alone to fend for themselves for several hours or sometimes even days, as toddlers and small children, while their mother went out to prostitute and sell drugs. Their mother also often left them locked in their room and in their cribs as infants. When they were able to fend for themselves a little better, they were let out of their rooms to use the rest of the apartment, however, that's when the "special friends" of their mother would come over to "play games" with them in their mother's bedroom. You can infer exactly what means. These poor children! At least they had each other to depend on and to help cope with the unending boredom that plagued their days and the abuse that they suffered. During the visits with their mom's "Friends," the girls both learned how to dissociate from the situation to get through it and thankfully never remembered much of what happened.

Later, Elizabeth accidentally sets the kitchen stove on fire, while trying to make ramen noodles when she is seven. The fire department is called by neighbors, the girls are rescued, and placed into foster care where they are adopted by The Rooth's who are loving, attentive parents to the girls. 

It takes many years of therapy and love from Rooth's but both girls start going to school and graduate from high school on time, taking on mostly normal lives, despite the early abuse and neglect they suffered during their early years. 

The girls move into an apartment together to begin living independently but Emily is suffering from severe depression so that leaves Elizabeth to work a part time job to make ends meet while attending college classes. One day, Elizabeth finds Emily on the floor of the bathroom, having taken many pills and overdosed. Emily dies and Elizabeth ends up in a psych ward due to the extreme stress of finding her twin sister like that. 

In the ward, she befriends a girl named Rose, who is there for anorexia. Through her friendship with Rose, the ward's group therapy and the main doctor assigned to her case, Elizabeth begins to heal from the loss of her sister....even though she soons finds out that Emily died not last week, as she remembers it, but two years ago!! 

As she grapples with this new information, she discovers shocking secrets and fights against the holes in her memory. Are these doctors lying to her? Has her beloved sister really been dead for that long? How could she be when they rented an apartment together? When she held her in her arms that night she died only weeks before? What really happened to Emily? 

What is actually true? 

I rated this book 4/5 stars due to the twist at the end and how engaged Berry kept me in this book, while keeping me guessing what the heck was going on. I recommend this book and this author to anyone who enjoys this genre, however, it deals with some pretty heavy stuff, such as anorexia, suicide, overdose, cutting/self harm, and codependency, so trigger warnings are needed. I've heard that this author routinely dives into some heavy content in her books but she does a very good job at walking the line between too much detail and enough to keep the readers knowledgeable of what is happening while being respectful to the content itself. 

If you enjoy psychological thrillers and haven't checked this author out, I definitely recommend that you do!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, what a great book.
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2024
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This is my fourth book by this author and I can’t wait to start another. I did guess where the ending was going but still gave me goosebumps. I would recommend this author.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Loved the book didn't like the ending
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
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The book hooked me right away. I was invested and couldn't stop til I was done reading this in one day. Then there is the ending I felt so let down I was on this painful journey and then there is the twist and the end.
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Guberdog
4.0 out of 5 stars Well Written Story
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2024
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New concept for me, twins living in abuse and neglect, adopted but left with their feelings of horror and hopelessness. Mental mingling of their emotions is fatal for one, and a living hell for the other.
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Danielle
5.0 out of 5 stars Just when you think you know; you dont
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2024
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The ending was epic! Lucinda is one of my favorites! I wish I could
I have read this is in one sitting but unfortunately work gets in the way
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Grace
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
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Lucinda Berry has a way of writing books that will pull at all of your emotions. I love how every time I think I have it figured out, I don’t. I’m a huge fan and will be buying & reading all of her books.
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Melinda
4.0 out of 5 stars kind of predictable
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2024
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This was a decent read but I predicted the outcome early on. Otherwise it was a good book with likable characters.
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Alison
5.0 out of 5 stars couldn’t put it down
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2024
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As the first time reading this author, I can safely say it won’t be the last!! There was twists and turns at every chapter and I never could have guessed any of them. Absolutely brilliant and cannot wait to read more of her
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Nomis S
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping and captivating read
Reviewed in Canada on March 22, 2021
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This book was one of the best I've ever read (I read alot!). I'm having a hard time putting into words how indepth this book is. It deals with a very traumatic and sensitive issue in a raw and powerful way of writing. The story capivated me and I has a hard time with putting it down. I highly recommend this book. It shows how the human mind can do many unique things to keep one functioning while dealing with trauma.
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Fernanda
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Mexico on July 2, 2020
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I loooooove Lucinda Berry's novels. Every one of them, they are fantastic psychological thrillers. This is a great dark story about twins that have serious problems because of what they have lived. Great twist at the end! I have bought every Lucinda Berrys book and cant wait for the next one!
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Fernanda
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Mexico on July 2, 2020
I loooooove Lucinda Berry's novels. Every one of them, they are fantastic psychological thrillers. This is a great dark story about twins that have serious problems because of what they have lived. Great twist at the end! I have bought every Lucinda Berrys book and cant wait for the next one!
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Jenn Zapata
5.0 out of 5 stars Well, this was quite ride
Reviewed in Australia on January 2, 2022
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A very good book, I was not expecting that ending :0
It made me think about mental illness and such.
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Gwendy P.
4.0 out of 5 stars Girl(s) Interrupted
Reviewed in Canada on October 10, 2018
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Not sure I'd categorize this as a psychological thriller, but the psychological part fits. Think "Girl Interrupted"; the unveiling of the Emily 'situation' was obvious from the very start - this plot 'device' has become quite common and I've read at least a dozen books using it. However, it didn't ruin the story for me. The author has a steady handle on the subject matter based on her profile/background and at times I swore I was reading an actual memoir. Very realistically written and Elizabeth was a complex character to have as a lead and I found her journey compelling and informative. This is not new subject matter for a story, it's been done before, but I thought the author did a great job in keeping me absorbed. The ending was icing on the cake; didn't foresee that coming (although in retrospect, the clues were there!)
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