Fantastic book! Couldn't put it down and absolutely did not predict the ending...must buy!!!!

Loved it ... descriptive, engaging, absorbing and intriguing. It kept me hooked, leaving me wanting more every time I finished a chapter. An absolute page-turner of a book where I was desperate to find out the back-story of each character and how it all tied together. Great twist!

What can I say! An amazing first novel by this very talented author. The book draws you in at the first chapter and digs into the deepest depths of the characters. A fantastic read you will not want to put down! Totally recommend.

Hypnotic is a debut novel with an unusual and clever premise. After a traumatic event, Tom and Gemma move away and try to have a new start but Tom isn't coping and has trouble sleeping, not to mention his problems with the bottle. Drawn into partaking in what initially appears to be a sleep experiment, he finds himself in a quite different experiment. Bethany is a quite strange young woman and she becomes interested in whether a person can be hypnotised to commit murder. Enter Tom! The story is told in alternating chapters from Bethany and Tom's points of view. I'm not sure why, but I preferred Tom's sections. I found Bethany just as unsettling as I suspect I was meant to. I rather liked Tom's acerbic thoughts though, especially in the opening chapter. The storyline itself had me intrigued, particularly the bits where the hypnosis was taking place. It's a fascinating subject and a little bit freaky really when you consider what Bethany was trying to get Tom to do. The ending is clever and although I did guess some of what was going to happen, I thought it was a very cunning finale on the part of the author. Hypnotic felt a bit different to other books that I've read with its focus on the inner workings of the human psyche.