The Gift: The gripping psychological thriller everyone is talking about Paperback – December 15, 2016

I don't know what made me choose this book. It's very different to the type I would normally go for, but I'm so glad I did.Written in first person dialogue it tells us the turmoil Jenna has found herself in since receiving her donor heart. With inexplicable feelings and flashbacks into the world of Callie, she is lost in a world of fear and confusion. And as she deciphers the messages through dreams and intuition she is thrust into a world of danger.The storyline is intriguing and maintains the suspense throughout, building to a finale that thankfully, ties up all the loose ends for the reader.A smidgen of fact. A visit to the "other side". Romance and emotions along with a great big dollop of suspense. This book has it all. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will add Louise Jensen to my list of favorite authors .

Despite having read stories with a similar theme I thoroughly enjoyed this book about a heart transplant recipient (Jenna) who starts having visions and feelings associated with her organ donor (Callie). This paragraph sums up the feelings of Jenna as she waits with hope for a miracle.“Time was interminable: doctors consulted, nurses fuss and notes were made until one day a miracle happened. “We’ve found a heart” Dr Kapur announced.”Strange flashbacks propel Jenna into finding out more about the donor and how she died. This sets Jenna off on a mission to discover what Callie is trying to tell her, despite the obvious dangers she now exposes herself to.“A heart is not just an organ. The heart stores secrets and lies. Hopes and dreams. It’s more than a muscle. I know it is. The heart remembers.”Cellular memory is discussed as a theory including documented instances where the recipient has changed their eating habits, likes and even spoke the native language of the donor that neither doctors nor scientists were able to explain. This made the book thought-provoking."It is proven that memory itself is distributed throughout the neural system and the heart’s nervous system contains around 40 000 neurons that communicate with the brain. If you transplant a heart, you are transplanting these neurons.”This novel is a gripping psychological thriller that steadily builds up the tension throughout.“We all have our reasons for doing the things we do, don’t we? The lies we tell. We are all a mixture of good and bad and I don’t think anyone is entirely one thing or the other.”Unlike most gripping thrillers of late that I’ve read, the ending had an unforeseen twist. I also liked that the story was balanced with good, bad and not too bad nor too good characters. More importantly, the story is well written but still easy to read.Strange flashbacks propel Jenna into finding out more about the donor and how she died. This sets Jenna off on a mission to discover what Callie is trying to tell her, despite the obvious dangers she now exposes herself to.“A heart is not just an organ. The heart stores secrets and lies. Hopes and dreams. It’s more than a muscle. I know it is. The heart remembers.”Cellular memory is discussed as a theory including documented instances where the recipient has changed their eating habits, likes and even spoke the native language of the donor that neither doctors nor scientists were able to explain. This made the book thought-provoking."It is proven that memory itself is distributed throughout the neural system and the heart’s nervous system contains around 40 000 neurons that communicate with the brain. If you transplant a heart, you are transplanting these neurons.”This novel is a gripping psychological thriller that steadily builds up the tension throughout.“We all have our reasons for doing the things we do, don’t we? The lies we tell. We are all a mixture of good and bad and I don’t think anyone is entirely one thing or the other.”Unlike most gripping thrillers of late that I’ve read, the ending had an unforeseen twist. I also liked that the story was balanced with good, bad and not too bad nor too good characters. More importantly, the story is well written but still easy to read.

This book had me riveted for over half, but as the climax approach ed, it was sadly an anti-climax. Too many coincidences, like all these characters somehow all involved with one another,AND the recipient of the heart and her BFs family. This must be a VERY small town! The English jargon was annoying after awhile. How do you " call in " to a store or someone's house? You mean STOP IN. And a living room , even in a tiny apartment ( excuse me - FLAT), is called a LOUNGE???? What is this , a seedy 1965 motel in Vegas?

This is the second book of Louise Jensen. It is indeed an Improvement from her first book. It is 350 pages, a must-read psychological Thriller! Entertaining but has many grammatical errors. Is anyone editing Miss Jenkins books? If you can overlook the editing errors, the book is about a woman who receives a heart transplant then begins to see visions and dreams of the donor. It's entertaining, but creepy at the same time. I enjoyed the "Thriller" part of the book, however the strange dream/ daytime nightmares we're not what I enjoyed, even though this is a work of fiction it was too 'out there' for my liking. Having said that, I would recommend this book if you enjoy psychological thrillers. The book keeps you guessing the outcome to the last several pages.If my review was helpful to you, please hit the 'helpful' button at the end of the end of the review. Thank you for reading my review.

This is another author that I have never heard of. I bought this book on Amazon around Christmas and just picked it up and decided to read it. I thought it was a book based on the movie with the same title, but by the end of the first chapter, I realized that I was wrong. I kept on, however, and I am very glad that I did! You first meet Jenna following a heart transplant. She is a young woman living on her own after breaking up with her live-in boyfriend shortly after her surgery, knowing that she can't give him the life he dreams of now that she can no longer have children. Jenna depends on others or public transportation to get around, and she is about to start back at work after taking some months off for recovery. But then she starts feeling weird. At first she thinks her medication is too strong and she tries to cope. But then Jenna starts having these weird dreams and has become very forgetful which has made her feel very uneasy.Against her therapists recommendations, Jenna, also, desires to meet her heart donors family to pay her respects and to properly thank them for their selflessness. While in their home, she begins to realize that the dreams are not dreams, but memories of the original owner of her new heart and she finds herself completely emerged in a possible murder investigation that leads to more stress and a stalker situation! This is a must read, my friends!

O livro prende bem, é interessante como a estória se desenvolve. A personagem principal é cativante. Daqueles que você lê super rápido.

The only failing might have been that it was slightly too long for the story covered. Interesting plot, and concept of the story with the Cell Memory idea. It kept my attention well, I frequently went on to another chapter when I had planned to put it aside for the day. The characters were developed well. Perhaps the physical toll on a person who has a heart transplant might be more than portrayed, but I'm not sure of that. Overall, a good read that left the reader thinking.

Ich habe dieses Buch angefangen und konnte es nicht mehr weglegen. Die Kapitel sind kurz und so ist das schnelle lesen leichter gemacht.sehr spannende Story

J'ai été à deux doigts d'abandonner ce livre, ce qui est exceptionnel, tant je cherche ce qui est bon dans un livre.De quoi s'agit-il ? Une jeune femme bénéficie d'une transplantation cardiaque et voila qu'elle se met en tête de retrouver la donneuse, se rend compte qu'il y a quelque chose d'anormal dans les circonstances de sa mort. Le tout fondé sur une théorie para-scientifique, la mémoire cellulaire.Et cela traîne, traîne. A déconseiller pour les esprits rationnels.

Personajes e historia congruentes. No pude prever el final. Muy interesante la situación de los pacientes de trasplantes así como la de los donadores.