"Leah DeGarmo has the power to cure with just a touch. But with her gift comes a dark side: Whatever she takes in she has to pass on, or suffer it herself."The start was strong. I empathized with Leah. How do you maintain a life for yourself with a power like that? How can you have relationships but keep that secret? How can you help others but not draw too much attention to yourself? Who can you trust? I was here for it all, but OMG scene after scene of kidnap/danger/shooting/beating/supernatur...

“The Cure”“The Cure” by JG Faherty involves a woman who has the power to heal with just a touch. It’s a special power that benefits Dr. Leah DeGarmo in her veterinary clinic. She is able to save some animals, at the sacrifice of others that are reaching the end of their life span. She guards this power with an intense secrecy, but when her secret is inadvertently revealed during a dangerous random encounter, a criminal element sees a great opportunity in her powers.This is the kind of book where...

In this thriller from JG Faherty, Leah DeGarmo is a veterinarian who has the unique ability to cure humans and animals of everything from gunshot wounds and broken bones to cancer. The only catch is that she has to transfer the sickness to someone, another human or another animal, because if she doesn't expel it from herself and transfer it elsewhere, she will get stuck with the illness and can die. It doesn't take long for the wrong kind of people to find out she can do this after an exciting i...

The premise of the book was really interesting - if you know you can kill a baddie to save a goodie, do you do it? And what do you do when you are forced to use your powers to kill innocents?Leah has been using her powers for years to save gravely ill pets in her veterinary clinic. But as soon as she uses her power to save the life of a cop in a crowded fast food restaurant, people become very interested in her...The middle of the book got a bit boggy, with the same thing happening over and over...

Hard to review this one – the first 40% - 50% I was really into. The last half I felt frustrated for the ineptitude of the main character and her inability to lock a door and get kidnapped 4 or 5 different times (I lost count) in the last half the book. I was like damn how many times is this *$@$% going to get kidnapped in one book. Get kidnapped, escape, go back home, get kidnapped, escape, go back home repeat. I am used to one kidnapping in a book – but this one takes the cake. And there is go...

I wasn’t sure where this book would go, but it took me on a pleasant journey. I had expected a horror novel, but this wasn’t horror (though it certainly had a few graphic descriptions), I would say it’s an action / thriller. Confession time: it’s not a genre that I’m usually into, but this book had just enough supernatural twists and turns to keep me interested. The protagonist was a fascinating person, and I really liked how she used her powers. Her love for animals was really a nice touch to h...

Leah DeGarmo is a veterinarian who possesses the ability to cure with a touch--provided she "passes the illness/injury on" to another. This novel was filled with non-stop action and plenty of graphic descriptions to keep my attention. I would classify this as more of a "thriller" than a "horror" novel, simply because the majority of the story centers around what happens when others discover DeGarmo's talents, and wish to retain them for their own personal gain. While the pace was relentless, I h...

Book Review originally published here: http://www.iheartreading.net/reviews/...The Cure started out with a blast, then grabbed an interesting concept and made it even more interesting and then…ruined all that by offering one chase scene after the next, descending into a non-stop rollercoaster of events so unbelievable they seemed laughable. Leah DeGarmo, our main character, is a veterinarian with the power to cure. She routinely cures animals from illnesses like cancer, or from car accident inju...

Leah DeGarmo is a healer. She has maintained her secret for her entire life until one day everything falls apart and she is discovered. Suddenly this small town vet finds herself on several gangs most wanted lists.This is a very fast moving moving book that I read in one day. It's an an action packed thriller that I highly recommend.

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. This is in no way reflected in my opinion of this novel.What would you chose to do if you had the power to heal? Leah DeGarmo choses to help animals and their owners. As a pet owner/lover I totally get that. It also makes parts of this story hard to read through the tears. Leah is a believable and sympathetic main character. I found myself rooting for her and John to get away from the evil men chasing them. And cheering when she go...

Review copyOpening line..."She was born with the power to cure. Now she's developed the power to kill." I'm in.Leah Degarmo is a veterinarian with the power to cure with just a touch, but her gift comes with a dark side: whatever she takes in she has to pass on, or suffer it herself.I've read a number of stories recently where the principal character has interesting powers and I don't mind telling you they have all been among my favorites.The Cure is certainly a page turner and I couldn't wait t...

If you are up for a relentless thrill-ride, buckle up when opening this book. Faherty wastes no time getting us in the thick of the action. And, we’re ready to care about DeGarmo, who has a soft spot for animals and wants to save as many of them as she can. We get the sense that her moral compass is working overtime, which is why she has isolated herself from most people. She knows she needs to guard her special powers because they have the potential to make her life uber-drama-filled. Which is

In this novel, I truly believed the protagonist was a female in her twenties, when I know the author is a male considerably older than that. The authenticity of voice allowed me to buy into everything else that happens in the story, including the unending devotion of the protagonist's love interest despite her "metamorphosis," and all she does, once she realizes how far her powers can go. Why? Good writing suspends disbelief, not to mention the "save the cat" maxim utilized to its optimal best.

The Cure is a no-holds barred, breath-taking suspense horror thriller that never lets up. Reminiscent of some of the great conspiracy horror thrillers of the '70's and '80's (John Farris' The Fury, King's Firestarter), the compelling storyline will carry the reader through to the end, begging the question of how can this possibly end. Faherty has created a slew of very colorful, heinous villains pursuing the heroine and I've always believed tales like this are only as good as the bad guys. And t...

While reading The Cure by J. G. Faherty, I found myself questioning the idea of miracles. You don't have to be a theologian to realize everything worthwhile in our life comes with a price. When the impossible happens, we acclaim it as a miracle yet in our karmic universe do we really think that which is not earned by us will not exact a payment somewhere in the future?That gets us to the plot of Faherty's very exciting and pleasantly exhausting novel. Leah DeGarmo is a veterinarian who at a youn...

**Cliffhanger alert**I really enjoyed the beginning of this book. It sucked me right in and kept me going. I really enjoyed Leah as a character and her special powers and what she did with them. But at about the half way point, the story seemed to become repetitive and didn't keep my interest as well. I wasn't expecting to cliffhanger at the end and it kind of knocked me for a loop! lol

Nothing in the opening chapters is new. Once again, here’s the same old plot of a hidden power and the covert organization that wants to control it. Something this cliched needs more style and atmosphere than this simplistic approach. I stopped after 60 pages.

Loved this book. Kept me turning the pages, which is what I want in a novel. I found the main character really easy to route for, and her "abilities" from the beginning to end were awesome. When I thought I knew or understood "stuff" I was shown I hadn't seen anything yet. The author kept giving me more, uping the stakes and building the tension. Threw me for a couple of loops along the way, stuff I wasn't expecting. Again, love it when a book does that. Plain and simple, this was a FUN read. Pl...

Imagine you had the power to cure – however seriously injured and apparently beyond help – any living being that inhabits the earth. That would be a wonderful gift, right? Especially if you happened to be a veterinarian? Dr Leah DeGarmo is just such a person. Her ability to effect the Cure has helped countless numbers of her animal patients and their grateful owners. But with this gift comes a curse. In order to cure, she must take in the disease or injury of the one she is helping. Then she has...

The concept was excellent, but the writing was not much better than mine. There was a lot of repetition in the events, but the same descriptions tended to get used over and over as well. And then the 2 main characters... there insta-love I can almost make sense of because they are sharing a series of events that would be likely to cause people to develop quick attachments to each other. The worst though...how do two supposedly smart people continuously make so many stupid ass choices? All the ch...