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A review by srreid
Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson
4.0
I received a free copy from Readers First in exchange for an honest review.
Wow that was a ride and a half, I'd read the first few chapters in the extract then just a few chapters after that a few days ago, but it was the weekend before i got into this book properly. I started reading from about page 80 in the morning and had it finished by evening, not often a book is that unputdownable for me, but i just had to find out what happened!
It starts off with the audacious kidnapping of a little girl from her own home in the middle of the night while her unsuspecting parents slept next door. I felt tense reading it as we follow the kidnapper through the house until he makes his escape with the girl.
He takes her home and introduces her to her new family - his wife and other daughter, who he had kidnapped 3 years earlier and had held prisoner in a room ever since. It was up to her to teach the new addition to the family what the rules were so they could all get along and he wouldn't have to punish them. The police are called in to investigate, but get nowhere it seems.
As if that wasn't enough, emboldened by the success of this second kidnapping he goes for a third girl, and this is where it all starts to unravel. I can't talk about the rest without giving away any spoilers.
The ending i did not guess at all, and kind of where it loses a star for me as i felt there weren't enough clues earlier to lead to the reasons, they were just kind of lumped on us in the last few pages. But the story from the get go to the end was a non stop thrill, as i said at the start, it's not often i read a whole book in a single day.
Wow that was a ride and a half, I'd read the first few chapters in the extract then just a few chapters after that a few days ago, but it was the weekend before i got into this book properly. I started reading from about page 80 in the morning and had it finished by evening, not often a book is that unputdownable for me, but i just had to find out what happened!
It starts off with the audacious kidnapping of a little girl from her own home in the middle of the night while her unsuspecting parents slept next door. I felt tense reading it as we follow the kidnapper through the house until he makes his escape with the girl.
He takes her home and introduces her to her new family - his wife and other daughter, who he had kidnapped 3 years earlier and had held prisoner in a room ever since. It was up to her to teach the new addition to the family what the rules were so they could all get along and he wouldn't have to punish them. The police are called in to investigate, but get nowhere it seems.
As if that wasn't enough, emboldened by the success of this second kidnapping he goes for a third girl, and this is where it all starts to unravel. I can't talk about the rest without giving away any spoilers.
The ending i did not guess at all, and kind of where it loses a star for me as i felt there weren't enough clues earlier to lead to the reasons, they were just kind of lumped on us in the last few pages. But the story from the get go to the end was a non stop thrill, as i said at the start, it's not often i read a whole book in a single day.