PLOT SUMMARY:

Margaret’s rare autoimmune condition has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated and in pain. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can—until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial.

The conditions are simple, if grueling: she will live at the hospital as a full-time patient, subjecting herself to the near-total destruction of her immune system and its subsequent regeneration. The trial will essentially kill most of, but not all of her. But as the treatment progresses and her body begins to fail, she stumbles upon something sinister living and spreading within the hospital.

Unsure of what’s real and what is just medication-induced delusion, Margaret struggles to find a way out as her body and mind succumb further to the darkness lurking throughout Graceview’s halls.

GRADE: B-

REVIEW:

The Graceview Patient was marketed as Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Misery, and since I love both, I went in expecting this to be right up my alley. And in many ways, it was. That said, experiencing it as an audiobook added an extra layer of surreal intensity—especially since it’s narrated by Xe Sands, who also read Spread Me. Her voice turned an already disorienting story into a full-blown fever dream.

Meg has lived for years with a rare autoimmune disease that has slowly stripped away her relationships, her career, and any sense of normalcy. When she’s offered a spot in an experimental medical trial—one that will completely destroy her immune system before rebuilding it—she agrees. After all, she feels she has nothing left to lose (and getting paid doesn’t hurt). But as the treatment progresses, unsettling things start happening, and Meg begins to suspect that the experiment isn’t quite what she was told. Something else may be using her body as its test subject.

This is a deeply trippy, slow-burn descent into medical horror. If you enjoy unsettling atmosphere, creeping paranoia, and stories that blur the line between reality and hallucination, this one’s worth your time. Just be warned: if you’re not into slow burns, it may feel overly repetitive or too dreamlike to fully click.

*Thank you so much to NetGalley & Dreamscape Media for the audiobook copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

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