A review by mrspenningalovesbooks
The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne

4.0

If you like psychological thrillers and Michigander allusions, this is your book! It was a perfect jump-into-fall season. I loved the POV of a woman who is the product of an abducted mother and a narcissist father. The flashbacks show how she grew up not knowing of her situation and only knowing isolation in the U.P. Present time shows her father has escaped from prison, a place she put him in, and she goes out to find him, knowing the methods to track him from his own teaching. It is all tied to a gothic fairytale, the Marsh King’s Daughter, by Hans Christian Andersen.