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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
After listening to The Therapist on audio earlier this year I was eager to read what B.A. Paris had next in store. While The Therpaist wasn’t one of my favourites, I still enjoyed the writing style and wanted to read more of her work. Flash forward to The Prisoner!! This was the fast-paced thriller I neededddd right now
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I read The Couple Next Door and quickly devoured all of Paris' books. Until The Prisoner I was about to give up on Paris. We have a strong lead character in Amelie - she is a survivor. Amelie spent the majority of the novel locked in one room, but it was kept interesting with being able to with her being able to hear her husband, speculate why they have been kidnapped, the motives, and who are the kidnappers. Honestly, to keep a book interesting locked in a small dark room for the majority of the book is quite the challenge that Paris succeeded in writing. The pacing was great and I was keep intrigued on how the story would play out.
How did this book find me? I received an audio version through NetGalley.
How did this book find me? I received an audio version through NetGalley.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Murder
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent
Minor: Sexual assault, Suicide, Sexual harassment
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
2.75 stars?? I kind of guessed the plot and the players pretty early on.
Amelie marries Ned because she needs money, but she soon finds out he’s not at all what he seems. Soon after, they’re both kidnapped.
Told from Amelie’s POV we move through the past and the present during the first part of the book.
Part two is all present, what happens after the kidnapping and Amelie working to solve the mystery and the “why” of the kidnapping.
There were a lot of things that happened that I feel were unnecessary and made the story more complicated than it could have been.
Thank you Netgalley for this eARC
Amelie marries Ned because she needs money, but she soon finds out he’s not at all what he seems. Soon after, they’re both kidnapped.
Told from Amelie’s POV we move through the past and the present during the first part of the book.
Part two is all present, what happens after the kidnapping and Amelie working to solve the mystery and the “why” of the kidnapping.
There were a lot of things that happened that I feel were unnecessary and made the story more complicated than it could have been.
Thank you Netgalley for this eARC
I’m kind of confused on my feelings for this book right now so I’m going with 4 stars. Amelie has a tragic upbringing with her mom dying during childbirth, then her dad’s alcoholism and death when she was a teen. She ran off to London where she tried to succeed in her own, and she was doing good until suddenly she fell for Ned. Now this is one of the parts that I’m stuck on, she has great friends, a good job, and plans to enroll to law school, why is she believing a word Ned says? She’s heard how slimy he is from her friends and she seems to be the type of person who knows hard work pays off, not the type that’s would fall for his $100,000 proposition *sigh*
The kidnapping and time spent captive had me turning pages, I wasn’t sure what was going to happen with her or Ned.
Then she’s let free and all of her friends are dead, she convinces Ned’s father not to argue his “suicide”, and she finds out her dad has left her a lot of money that she never knew about. If she had known about the money then none of this would’ve happened but she apparently didn’t pay much attention to her dad to even know that he had a friend *sigh*.
Anyway. of course she still wants answers about the kidnapping. She travels to New Zealand and finds out (surprise but not really) Hunter is still alive and he quickly fills her in on all the why’s and how’s. So she ends up with money, no friends or family, and feelings for her captor *sigh*, hence my confusion on how I feel about this book.
Thanks to NetGalley for this e-arc
The kidnapping and time spent captive had me turning pages, I wasn’t sure what was going to happen with her or Ned.
Then she’s let free and all of her friends are dead, she convinces Ned’s father not to argue his “suicide”, and she finds out her dad has left her a lot of money that she never knew about. If she had known about the money then none of this would’ve happened but she apparently didn’t pay much attention to her dad to even know that he had a friend *sigh*.
Anyway. of course she still wants answers about the kidnapping. She travels to New Zealand and finds out (surprise but not really) Hunter is still alive and he quickly fills her in on all the why’s and how’s. So she ends up with money, no friends or family, and feelings for her captor *sigh*, hence my confusion on how I feel about this book.
Thanks to NetGalley for this e-arc
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No