Thomas & Mercer
Jun 2016
The reviews and blurb for this novel don't give an accurate picture. This book is tenser, darker, and more suspenseful than I expected.
What's different about this book
While the blurb prepares the reader for Jude, traumatized by past experience and thus able to "read" the body language of those she deals with, the blurb did not prepare me for the depth of suspense and darkness. We start the book knowing that the story is predominantly about Jude after her own abduction, but in fact the book begins with her while she is still being held in terrible conditions. Interestingly, she is not the only woman to experience that kind of trauma in this telling, and from that fact the entire plot is drawn. An engaging read, with a wide (but not too wide) range of characters. The two prime protagonists are compellingly drawn.
What I'll do now that I've read it
This will be a great, new book to share with my adult readers who relish mystery and suspense. Best of all, the book ends satisfyingly - but with everything in place for a sequel. I'll be looking for that.
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