Saving Max
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Max Parkman—autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive—is perfect in his mother’s eyes. Until he’s accused of murder.
Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Max’s behavior has been getting worse—using drugs and pouring out. But she can’t accept the diagnosis she receives at a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that her son is deeply disturbed. Treacherous.
Until she finds Max, unconscious and bloodied, beside a uncomplaining who has been cruelly stabbed to death.
Trapped in a world of doubt and dread, barred from contacting Max, Danielle clings to the belief that her son is innocent. But has she, too, lost touch with reality? Is her son really a killer?
With the justice system impact down on them, Danielle steels herself to learn the truth, no matter what it is. She’ll do whatever it takes to find the killer and to save her son from being ruined by a system that’s all too keen to convict him.
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Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten is a frightening and suspenseful look at what a mother will do for like. Danielle Parkman has reached the end of her endurance with sixteen-year-ancient son Max. He’s long suffered from Asperger’s, an illness that is an autism spectrum disorder, but he’s recently become violent toward her. When she learned his journal with a detailed plot for his plotted suicide, she feels like she has no choice but to bring him to Maitland, a well-known psychiatric facility for diagnosing mental illness. Once there, she bonds with Mariane Morrison whose son, Jonas, suffers from severe self-abuse and autism issues, but Max seems to take an immediate dislike toward Jonas and starts acting out aggressively to him. Danielle’s worries escalate when Maitland diagnoses Max as being schizophrenic and refuses Danielle access to him. Then she discovers Jonas dead in his room, covered in blood, with Max lying unconscious next to him and holding the murder weapon. She snaps and her attempts to save him from being tried with the murder cause her to be charged along with him. How far will Danielle be forced to go to prove that her son is innocent of murder and what will she find in her investigation? van Heugten has tapped into a mother’s worst fears and makes a terrifying and haunting suspense tale. I wanted to shake Danielle for her stubborn and regularly illegal actions, but couldn’t help admiring her unstoppable like and devotion to Max. What she discovers is beyond terrifying and evil. The writing is quick-paced and compelling is occasionally a bit graphic for my taste (I could have gone lacking the scene on the videotape). van Heugten’s portrayal of a mother dealing with the challenges of an autistic child is inspiring and will make all readers who are moms grateful for the child they have.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Danielle isn’t sure if Max is just a predictable teen or if something more threatening has taken root in his body and mind. Right, the 16-year-ancient son of this single mom has diagnosable problems, like Aspergers or autism, or a deep-seated learning disability – depending on the doctor – or the phase of the moon, or the state of Mom’s own scattered mind. Threats of suicide drive her to have him evaluated at a topnotch psychological treatment center.
Kooks abound in //Saving Max,// and the most treacherous ones aren’t automatically the patients at the treatment center. The cast of characters includes a standard curmudgeon investigator with a heart of gold and a like interest who is as handsome as he is gaga over Danielle.
Antoinette van Heugten’s first novel has the plot and gore of any excellent murder mystery. She puts her officially authorized background to excellent use in describing the examination in which Max and his mother are both accused of murder. But, van Heugten stretches both credibility and imagination with some of her officially authorized and medical shenanigans.
Reviewed by Marj Stuart
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Why I read this: I was questioned by the publicist if I want to read it and I really like the titles place out by Mira Books. I read the description and I knew I was hooked and had to read this one.
How is the novel driven: Action and character, since this is a suspense/thriller novel, action is the dominant driving force, but character development is key as well.
My thoughts: I have read mixed reviews so I wasn’t sure what I was going to reflect about this one before I ongoing. But as I ongoing reading this one and as I finished I realized I’m on the gushing side of this one.
Saving Max hooked me from the first page which takes place in the present and then the book starts and goes back to the point in time where the prologue occurred and then the events after. It’s an intriguing start and when the event that occurs in the prologue finally occurs in the timeline of the book – I establish I was still really shocked.
As the book continues, the suspense ratchets up. I went through so many emotions and so many things that I thought was happening only for the leader to keep proving me incorrect. Then there is a final aha moment where I figured it out, but it doesn’t end there, I was kept on the edge of my seat right up until the end.
The suspense is very tightly written and it is something that will keep the suspense lover intrigued through the book. I liked the mother of an autistic child (Max has Asperger’s) angle and how that mother had a high-stress job as well as being a single-mother yet she still did the best she could for her child. The book is well-written, the characters are very intriguing. There is some romance, some family tree, lots of suspense and it is just a fantastic book. I reflect this is one I’ll be recommending for awhile.
Danielle is a character I reflect most moms will tell to, she is simply trying to balance a career with a personal life and then add a special needs child on top of that. But she likes him like every mother likes her child no matter what the problems are and she simply wants the best for him, and she never stops wanting the best for him and will sacrifice herself and take risks to make sure he is taken care of. I reflect of her as an admirable character and I really like how she is developed through the book.
When I read Heather Gudenkauf’s The Weight of Silence for review last year – it was her first book and I felt like it was one of persons iffy things, will I like it or won’t I, but again it was a Mira book and I like this Harlequin Imprint. I finished up loving The Weight of Silence and that is how I feel about Saving Max as well. Antoinette van Heugten is an leader worth giving that first chance, and after you read her I’m sure you will want to read more from her and as soon as possible (hint, hint Mira books and Antoinette!)
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Sixteen years ancient Max Parkmans suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome though he is rather high functioning. His single mom, Manhattan attorney Danielle, worries 24/7 about her son. But, her concern goes viral when he turns violent towards her and she learns he is using drugs; her fears go stratospheric when she reads his journal as his writings and musings are violent and suicidal while the accompanying art is fiercely worse. He has turned increasingly aggressive even arresting and bruising his mom.
Max’s doctor suggests Danielle enroll her teen in the Maitland Psychiatric Asylum in Plano, Iowa. She has doubts, but her qualms for her son overrides all else. But, after he is welcomed, the staff informs her Max suffers from horrific schizophrenic psychosis and that to help him she must stay away. Soon afterward, Max is arrested and treated as a competent adult standing examination in the murder of another uncomplaining, and his mom also arrested as an accessory to the homicide.
Saving Max will hook readers, especially the parents of a child on the Autism Spectrum. The tale line is quick-paced from the moment the mother and her son arrive in Iowa and never slows down with several incredible realistic twists until the final courtroom denouement. Readers will know how far Danielle will go to protect Max, but Antoinette Van Heugten’s medical-officially authorized thriller is his tale as he struggles with his relationships with others.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This tale completely caught me by surprise. I was expecting something completely different. The character erect up is fantastic. I was never sure if Max was really crazy and commented the crime he was accused of. And Danielle was a wonderful example of the part a women would go to to protect her child. It was hard to accept her version of things. There were times I felt like yelling at her. I just wanted her to look at the facts and admit that it was possible that she was incorrect. I reflect since she’s permanently had such a hands on approach to her son and his well being, she refused to acknowledge that there was any possibility. There were a lot officially authorized things that I’m not sure I agreed with. And, I thought it the end there still should have been some ramifications for Danielle’s actions. But, the truth was shocking. The tale was intense once the ball got rolling and didn’t stop until the end.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5