The Killer Whisper

The Killer Whisper
Kimberlyn Juncos

You know what you have to do
By Bonnie Shimko

Have you ever had sinful thoughts? Thoughts that you cannot control which give you a sudden urge to commit crimes?

These are the thoughts Mary-Magdalene Feigenbaum has to deal with ever so often. Mary-Magdalene Feigenbaum: a tall, skinny, strawberry-blonde haired girl with glasses who attends Allenburg High School. The novel starts off with Mary-Magdalene explaining the reason for her existence in this world. Her mother has a bit of reputation. Let’s just say that back in her mother’s time of high school, she pretty much slept with anyone who ever smiled at her.

Mary-Magdalene describes herself as the child who should have never been born. Her mother got pregnant in high school and ended up marrying Harry Feigenbaum, an older man who Mary- Magdalene’s mother, Roxie, did not love at all but married just so she could feed her kid. Mary-Magdalene's biological father left her and her mother for another family. Now, that is enough of Mary-Magdalene's past life; let us get into her present life. Mary sees a physiologist often because her mother believes that there is something wrong with Mary-Magdalene, which is true. At one point in the novel her physiologist gives her the ink block test. The ink block test consists of the physiologist showing Mary splot images which Mary has to interpret. The physiologist shows Mary one and she thinks, 'It's a boy holding a dead puppy. The boy is crying" (16). The voice that Mary has in her head tells her to commit these sinister crimes. When the voice first started to appear, the voice convinced Mary-Magdalene to burn down her friend’s father’s house with her friend’s father in the house: "The creep abusing your friend and his mother... And just think of Lester's innocent puppy. A man that vicious shouldn't be allowed to live... Only you can make things right" (5).Mary- Magdalene believes that the voice comes from her father’s side of the family… maybe that is why she is mentally unstable.

I personally enjoy reading the novel because it sends a chilling sensation down my spine as the main character develops throughout the story. The reader gets a chance to look deep into Mary-Magdalene's mind and try to understand why she is the way she is. I do not recommend the novel to just anyone. I say, if you are the kind of reader who likes to get a little creeped out and lay awake late at night, overthinking about the crazy world we live in and the crazy people who roam this world, then this is a novel I am sure you would like to get your hands on. So I say, go to your local library check out the novel, grab yourself a hot cup of beverage, get cozy, and get ready for a whole new experience.

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