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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
4.5 ⭐️'s. Read my full review at www.blairsbookbenders.com
This book was fantastic, but it wasn't much of a psychological thriller. There wasn't any physiological response or sensations of fear while reading it. If you love true crime and stories like those of Elizabeth Smart, Amanda Berry, or Jaycee Dugard, then you might enjoy this book.
It's the story of Helena, who is hunting down her father in the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after he kills two prison guards and escapes during a transport. Helena is the product of a rape after her mother was kidnapped by her father at 14 and forced to live in the wilderness with him for 14 years. Helena was 12 when she found out who her father really was and what he had done, then was rescued from his imprisonment. Now that he's escaped from prison and is on the lam, she knows that with his expertise in living off the grid and surviving in the wilderness, she is the only one who will ever be able to find him. After all, he is the one who taught her everything he knows.
This book was a lot about Helena reliving the days of her childhood. How she loved her father, and he was her hero, and how she saw her mom as this depressed and miserable person. It really gets you thinking about her perspective as a child and how it's not so far-fetched that, as a reasonable adult, she still might feel this way. As the story goes on, we see her mindset about both her past and present life evolve as she reconciles a lot of feelings and thoughts that she's kept bottled up for half of her life.
I highly recommend reading this book, but don't watch the movie they just made about it. Yuck. It's terrible.
This book was fantastic, but it wasn't much of a psychological thriller. There wasn't any physiological response or sensations of fear while reading it. If you love true crime and stories like those of Elizabeth Smart, Amanda Berry, or Jaycee Dugard, then you might enjoy this book.
It's the story of Helena, who is hunting down her father in the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after he kills two prison guards and escapes during a transport. Helena is the product of a rape after her mother was kidnapped by her father at 14 and forced to live in the wilderness with him for 14 years. Helena was 12 when she found out who her father really was and what he had done, then was rescued from his imprisonment. Now that he's escaped from prison and is on the lam, she knows that with his expertise in living off the grid and surviving in the wilderness, she is the only one who will ever be able to find him. After all, he is the one who taught her everything he knows.
This book was a lot about Helena reliving the days of her childhood. How she loved her father, and he was her hero, and how she saw her mom as this depressed and miserable person. It really gets you thinking about her perspective as a child and how it's not so far-fetched that, as a reasonable adult, she still might feel this way. As the story goes on, we see her mindset about both her past and present life evolve as she reconciles a lot of feelings and thoughts that she's kept bottled up for half of her life.
I highly recommend reading this book, but don't watch the movie they just made about it. Yuck. It's terrible.
The storyline of this book is absolutely incredible! The parallels between "current" time and "past" time are remarkably well made, and the way the plot flows from both timeframes is amazing. I highly highly recommend this book.
much to think about… and cannot decide how many stars for this one…
This book did make me want to move to Michigan and also teach my children about stranger danger (I have no children).
I really enjoyed how the marsh was described and how Helena was raised on the land. I thought it was really interesting how she explained the merits of growing up out of society. Lastly, I really enjoyed the reasoning and context behind the timeline jumps.
I really enjoyed how the marsh was described and how Helena was raised on the land. I thought it was really interesting how she explained the merits of growing up out of society. Lastly, I really enjoyed the reasoning and context behind the timeline jumps.
Really listenable - couldn't wait to get back into the car to hear more. I wasn't a *huge* fan of the main character, but I don't know whether that was because of the way she was written or the way she was read, or just who she was. Still, it was a delight to have in the car and I loved every minute of it.
Well that escalated quickly...in a matter of less than 16 hours rri be exact. and that's with grocery shopping and life spinning around me.
Something about this book grabbed me and never let go. It's difficult to say exactly what that something was though. I found myself anxious to get back to it when I stopped reading and finished it as quickly as I could, in a good way.
The narrative pulled me in and was incredibly well written. I'm looking forward to reading more of Dionne's work.
Something about this book grabbed me and never let go. It's difficult to say exactly what that something was though. I found myself anxious to get back to it when I stopped reading and finished it as quickly as I could, in a good way.
The narrative pulled me in and was incredibly well written. I'm looking forward to reading more of Dionne's work.
I would rate this 3 and a 1/2 stars. It's very readable and very exciting and I like the nature descriptions.
I really struggled to get into this one, then struggled to finish it. I didn't care for the way the book was structured, and the author's writing style wasn't my favorite. The story had potential but thought overall it fell flat. Looking forward to what my fellow book club members thought!
This book combines outdoor survival, a genre I love (what to eat, how to find shelter, what will kill you) with a thriller suspense story about a woman who grew up in an isolated marsh, the child of a sociopathic kidnapper and his teenage victim. The story goes back and forth between the present, when the kidnapper escapes from prison, to the past including childhood in the marsh leading up to the escape when the protagonist is 12. The ecology is a marsh which is a bit different from other survival stories I've read. I didn't know you can eat cattails.
A good read although the protagonist's ambivalence toward her father and complicated if mostly absent feelings toward her mother are hard to absorb.
A good read although the protagonist's ambivalence toward her father and complicated if mostly absent feelings toward her mother are hard to absorb.