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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
Chilling, suspenseful thriller I found hard to put down. 3.5 stars
This was good. Different than many thrillers I have read. It really felt more like a memoir than a thriller. The"thriller" aspects of it were really just a hunt that, to me anyway, had a pretty foregone conclusion. You knew what was going to happen pretty much from the beginning. The most interesting parts of the story were the flashbacks. ***Semi-Spoiler*** I felt like the stories the narrator told gave every impression that her dad was a narcissistic psychopath. She talks about her love for him and his for her but towards the end, she gave her dad chances to hurt or kill her or her family that I found hard to buy. I guess it would have cut the book pretty short if she shot her dad on sight but that was clearly what she needed to do and in the end, she had to do that. I felt like she should have known better and the idea that she was going to capture him and return him to prison was absurd. That said, the psychology of growing up captive with no other humans besides a psychopathic, controlling father and a broken, emotionally destroyed mother is not something I can claim to understand. The book did a good job of trying to justify the narrator's unending love for her father.
This was a *good* book. The story of the time at the cabin woven in against the backdrop of Michigans upper peninsula was made this book three stars. The story was good, kept a good pace and left me satisfied, but not changed.
As a troll who transplanted herself into the topper lifestyle for years, it was lovely to hear about places I visited and such.
Overall I’ll likely remember this book but nothing groundbreaking came out of it.
As a troll who transplanted herself into the topper lifestyle for years, it was lovely to hear about places I visited and such.
Overall I’ll likely remember this book but nothing groundbreaking came out of it.
Very good! A horrible story of course but so well told. Jacob kidnaps a 16 year old girl & takes her to live in the marsh in the U.P. Years later, the 12-year old daughter Helena and her mother escape Jacob. 15 years later, Jacob escapes prison, killing 4 men, and comes after now-married Helena and her husband and two young daughters. This is kind of like a sequel (in a sideways manner) to The Room, telling the story of the child of kidnapper and kidnapee. Author does a great job of explaining why Helena loved her father, and feared him, and ran away, and how that relationship (and how she was brought up) affected her personality.
What a book! So engaging, so detailed and so suspenseful! I love a back and forth storyline and I loved the concept of the story. It was cool to see all these details and thoughts from such a terrible situation. All in all, excellent!
strange... i could not stop with this book, and i understand that as a child, she had no idea what was really happening, but i still found her so infuriating. i wanted more chase, less childhood maybe, even though it was intriguing. also the ending was like... k. how can i make this as cliche as possible? oh, just have her never kill him when she gets the chance. drag it out. even when he's beating her dog, even when she has her shot, and she admits she should've shot him long before, she just lets it go and go and go. i get it: he's her dad. but she spend the book recounting how he spent years brutally beating and raping her mother, abusing the holy shit out of her, beating her dog, torturing and murdering an innocent man in front of her, and she's like "but daddy"? COME ON NOW.
and yet, because i spent all my free time coming back to it, i give it 3 instead of 2, because clearly i was captivated.
and yet, because i spent all my free time coming back to it, i give it 3 instead of 2, because clearly i was captivated.
Y'all. I can NOT stop thinking about this book! It's one of those stories that grabs you from the first page and doesn't let go until long after you're done. Emotional, suspenseful, gripping. I loved every word.
I have not disliked a main character this much in a while. The lacked enough details about her relationships with her husband and daughters to see why she would be protective of them. She seemed to prefer her father to them. I stuck through the book hoping for something exciting, but it was predictable.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes