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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
This was on my "to read" list, so I checked it out. Everything that happened in the first 20 or 30 pages kept feeling familiar, so I flipped through the book, reading random scenes. Every one of them was familiar, too. So I must have read it before, although I don't remember doing so. And what I read from those scenes wasn't interesting enough to make me want to re-read it. What can I say, mass produced "thrillers" aren't exactly my thing.
This book centered on a kidnap-for-ransom of Abby Jennings, Dr. Will Jennings daughter. The perpetrator was Joe Hickey who was assisted by his wife Cheryl and his cousin Huey, who was mentally challenged. When Dr. Jennings goes to a medical conference to give the keynote speech, his daughter is abducted and his wife is held captive in their house. After the speech, Will is approached by a young lady who forces her way into his room at gunpoint. They are expected to come up with $200,000 the next morning in order for them to get their daughter back. Complications ensue, such as Abby being a juvenile diabetic and Hickey believing that Will killed his mother on the operating table. This turns from the type of kidnapping Hickey and his cronies have done 5 times previously into revenge.
This book was action-packed and hard to put down. The Jennings family was very real and it was a bit terrifying to read about how easy it was for Hickey to abduct Abby. As a mother this book terrifed me. As a reader, it was quite thrilling. However, the reason that this book is a 4 star and not a 5 star is because at the end you didn't really know if the Jennings family was going to be alright so there was no closure.
This book was action-packed and hard to put down. The Jennings family was very real and it was a bit terrifying to read about how easy it was for Hickey to abduct Abby. As a mother this book terrifed me. As a reader, it was quite thrilling. However, the reason that this book is a 4 star and not a 5 star is because at the end you didn't really know if the Jennings family was going to be alright so there was no closure.
Excellent book, but the ending was a little bit of a stretch.. suspend your disbelieve!
What a great book! I was hooked from the beginning, although some parts were not easy for me to read.
The premise of the book is very sad and tragic IMO, but I sort of assumed from the beginning, it would turn out okay in the end .... I'll leave you to read it to so you can see if I was right or very sad at the end.
This is the second book I've read by Greg Iles and he did not disappoint (although admittedly, I liked the first book I read by him better, but I think the plot line is a big cause of this).
I think I will pick up more books by him in the future.
The thing that makes me laugh the most is I originally downloaded this book to listen to while unpacking at the new house and of course became hooked on the story and listened to it very quickly and not only while unpacking!
I will admit some parts did seem to drag a bit and in some places time seemed to go soooo slow, but I would imagine for some of the victims, time did feel slow, so I'm still wondering if that was intentional on the author's part or not.
But that aside, I enjoyed the book greatly.
The premise of the book is very sad and tragic IMO, but I sort of assumed from the beginning, it would turn out okay in the end .... I'll leave you to read it to so you can see if I was right or very sad at the end.
This is the second book I've read by Greg Iles and he did not disappoint (although admittedly, I liked the first book I read by him better, but I think the plot line is a big cause of this).
I think I will pick up more books by him in the future.
The thing that makes me laugh the most is I originally downloaded this book to listen to while unpacking at the new house and of course became hooked on the story and listened to it very quickly and not only while unpacking!
I will admit some parts did seem to drag a bit and in some places time seemed to go soooo slow, but I would imagine for some of the victims, time did feel slow, so I'm still wondering if that was intentional on the author's part or not.
But that aside, I enjoyed the book greatly.