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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was so terrifying to me. This is every parents worst nightmare. The thoughts the mother, Rachel, has throughout this book were so relatable. Her daughter is kidnapped at the very beginning. Rachel's life is turned upside down when she receives the phone call from the kidnapper on the way to her oncologist. I could not put this book down because it had my adrenaline soaring. The chain thrives on parents who would do anything for their children. The only way to get your child back is to kidnap another child, hence the chain. If the chain breaks, a child may die. In a sick and disgusting way the masterminds of the chain are brilliant as in they keep the charade going yet do not have to do any of the work. The part that truly scared me to death was to think this could possibly or even has happen in the world today.
I will say the ending made the story a tad less realistic to me but it still remained extremely entertaining. This book has my nerves all over the place and my empathy was at an all time high. Like I said, the beginning was brilliant and so easy to put yourself in Rachel's shoes and feel her pain. The ending was very good but not as relatable. It was action packed for sure!
I would definitely like to read more from this author.
꧁𝓠𝓾𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓼꧂
Chemo is a little death that you invite in in order to keep the big death waiting outside on the porch.
I will say the ending made the story a tad less realistic to me but it still remained extremely entertaining. This book has my nerves all over the place and my empathy was at an all time high. Like I said, the beginning was brilliant and so easy to put yourself in Rachel's shoes and feel her pain. The ending was very good but not as relatable. It was action packed for sure!
I would definitely like to read more from this author.
꧁𝓠𝓾𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓼꧂
Chemo is a little death that you invite in in order to keep the big death waiting outside on the porch.
I was captivated by this book and couldn’t put it down for a long time. The chapters are short which makes it easy to put down and pick back up if you’re like me and don’t like stopping in the middle of chapters. By the end of the book, it lost some of its suspenseful elements and the story line weakened. I started to figure it out so it earned 3.5-4 stars in my opinion. This book was an easy read and held my attention so I was able to finish it in a little over two days. Won as part of a giveaway; great book overall.
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-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
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This starts out fast and keeps going. Some people had problems with the writing, but I was so engrossed with the story that I didn’t even notice. Held my attention, unique story line, ties it all up at the end. For the type of story it is, I’ll give it a 5.
November Read: The Chain by Adrian McKinty ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Single mother, Rachel, just got a call, the call that every parent dreads! Her daughter, Kylie, has just been kidnapped right from her school bus stop. The Chain has abducted Rachel's daughter. An unknown caller notified Rachel of the rules, pay the ransom, and find another child to kidnap. This is no ordinary kidnapping: the caller is a mother whose son has also been taken, and if Rachel doesn't do as she's told, the boy will die. Rachel is now part of The Chain, a scheme that turns victims into criminals, making someone else rich. But what the masterminds behind The Chain don't know is that parents will do anything for their children. Rachel and her ex-brother-in-law Pete have joined forces to rescue Kylie. It's definitely a suspenseful thriller.
I can’t decide how I feel about The Chain. The writing is great, there are no problems with the plot, and the premise is interesting. But for some reason I didn’t like it at the beginning. I found it tedious, but it could have been just that I wasn’t in the mood...? Right book at the wrong time? I found the second half to be much more engaging, and more of a fun roller coaster ride to the end. It was predictable after a certain point, but still satisfying to finish.
Even though I’m gonna finish this book, I have to downgrade it *right now* because of the pretentious AF tendency to include quotes from philosophers or historians at least once a chapter and usually when the protagonist is the focus of the story. It’s so obnoxiously overdone and it distracts away from the story that (shocker) has nothing to do with quotes like this. If I took a shot every time the author wrote something like, “As Kierkegaard wrote…” or “Like Tacitus famously said,” I would need my stomach pumped. Authors, avoid this trope!
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I really enjoyed the first part of this book. It was very thrilling and had me at the edge of my seat the entire time. I cannot wait to see what the outcome would be. The second part of this novel was horrible, and I did not enjoy the plot of it. I feel like it was very predictable and I knew who the bad guy was. There was no mystery leading up to who was responsible for the whole plot of the book, and the person was basically given in the beginning of part two. That is the reason why I gave this book 3 stars because the second part fell very short for me.