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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
This book was amazing, it races along and takes you with it, I really got hooked and read it in one day, which is very unusual for me. A creepy menacing thriller .
Flew through this one!!! Really dark and suspenseful. Loved it!
I really thought I was going to like this… I really wanted to like it… but I didn’t.
I will make this quick, brief and spoiler-free.
This story had a lot of promise. The blurb was really intriguing and full of mystery – it made me save this book for a special occasion and what better occasion than the first book of 2024!
Long story short… the book felt so repetitive I had to check a few times if I was reading the same chapter over and over again by mistake or if the printers had messed up the binding… it was around 200 pages long but felt like 700 – took me a whole week to finish!
About 95% of the book was the same thing over and over again with an infant added to the mix halfway through – the same thoughts, sentences, plot, actions, lack of character depth and/or growth. The “action” started towards the last 5% of the book and it was very anticlimactic and felt rushed. It was so slow and then so rushed that the big reveal didn’t feel like a reveal anymore – I had long lost interest in the story and just wanted it to end…
After finishing the book, I went back to GR to check the ratings and some other reviews and discovered that I wasn’t alone in feeling this way. In my opinion, this doesn’t even qualify as a thriller. So many missed opportunities. So many questions. So many things that didn’t feel believable.
I did discover what the last thing to burn was though so at least I have that as a takeaway...
dark
emotional
fast-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
This book is so well written you can actually picture yourself in the little cottage - the story is full on twist and turns.
It had me gripped, I read it in a few days.
It had me gripped, I read it in a few days.
This can easily be read in a day. The writing was so well done, you feel like you’re actually in this tiny cottage with this poor woman. It makes you feel claustrophobic, isolated, hopeless. Lenn (the captor) is what nightmares are made of. He was truly sick and twisted. But the author wrote him in a way that he could be anyone walking among us which made it even more terrifying.
It brings the question of who are you when your name, body, and possessions have been stripped from you? Are you still you?
TW: human trafficking, physical and psychological abuse, rape
It brings the question of who are you when your name, body, and possessions have been stripped from you? Are you still you?
TW: human trafficking, physical and psychological abuse, rape
I don't know if my expectations were simply too high or if this book just did not deliver. Is this book a thriller? I am unsure. What I do know is that it is disturbing.
Good character development. Good plot "twists", but somewhat predictable in the end.
Good character development. Good plot "twists", but somewhat predictable in the end.
Not sure if reading this in the bleakest days of winter was the best idea I've ever had cos this one did not nothing to improve my mood. It is bleak, it is dark, it almost literally hurt my heart. Yet I loved it! It's so addictive, I just had to know what would happen next to Jane-not-Jane, I was rooting for her from the start and I couldn't help but try and put myself in her shoes and it was the scariest thing.
I have to admit I'm not the biggest fan of Dean's ongoing Tuva Moodyson series but I'm so happy I gave this standalone the benefit of the doubt, I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'd happily recommend it.
I have to admit I'm not the biggest fan of Dean's ongoing Tuva Moodyson series but I'm so happy I gave this standalone the benefit of the doubt, I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'd happily recommend it.
Harrowing read which tells the bleak and hopeless story of "Jane" - hard to read given the topic and scenes of violence and abuse. Listened on audio and I think this might be one I'd have preferred to read.