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Abducted
by T.R. Ragan
When Lizzy Gardner was only seventeen, what should have been the perfect night became the perfect nightmare. Kidnapped just blocks from home after a romantic evening with her boyfriend, Jared, she woke up to find herself at the mercy of a depraved serial killer. Imprisoned and tormented for months by the maniac she came to know as Spiderman, Lizzy narrowly escaped, the only one of his victims to survive. But Spiderman escaped too, outwitting police and cursing Lizzy to spend her life looking over her shoulder…
Fourteen years later, Lizzy is a private investigator who teaches self-defense to teenage girls in her free time. She does what she can to help others protect themselves and to forget the horror of her ordeal, yet fears she will always be known as “the one who got away.” Then she receives a phone call from Jared, now a special agent for the FBI, with grim news. The killer has resurfaced, this time with a very specific target—Lizzy. And he’s made it clear that she will not escape him again. So begins a chilling game of cat-and-mouse, a terrifying, heart-pounding hunt that only one will survive.
This was an ok start to this series. To be honest though, I got frustrated. There was a lot of secondary characters that were introduced who felt like they had no reason to be there; one of the other characters could have filled the role in some way or that portion could have even been omitted. And a lot of the characters, especially the ones who should know better made stupid, idiotic choices. I mean, what normal person, let alone someone who's supposed to go after bad guys, leaves their phone behind?
I wavered on my feelings about Lizzy. On the one hand, I could understand her issues after everything that had happened, but still, there was something there and I just...I couldn't feel as bad for her as I might have. Maybe that's just me but I just felt like she wallowed in her issues too much rather than trying to deal with them. I started to feel a little better about her as she finally put her foot down and decided she was done dealing with Spiderman, but yeah. I did think the chemistry between she and Jared was decent and mildly sweet that he had those thoughts about what a future could have been.
Cathy pissed me off. Frustrated with her life or not, why was she such a bitch to Lizzy? Jared was right in pointing out that she hadn't been the nice person. But seriously? She's going to yell at Lizzy for basically not getting over this and then when she tries to do something about it, she takes away her niece? Seriously?! And the Moreno storyline pissed me the hell off too. Fiction or not, under no circumstances do you And really, she might have been able to beat him if she'd cared more about her life instead of a scoop or her reputation (like Lizzy mentioned).
I did get a little confused with the dates. Like on the one hand, it's nice to have those things because it tells you where you are in things, but on the other hand, it would have been nice if it included a location of some kind (Lizzy's apartment, Brittany's school, office, etc) to help determine a little more where things actually were. It was a little jarring to be focused on one thing and then have the break in the middle of the page and suddenly be back in the house with Hayley.
Like I mentioned, this was an ok intro to this series. But to be honest, between my frustrations/annoyances here and glancing ahead at some of the summaries, I don't know that I'm interested or invested enough to read the rest of the books.
Fourteen years later, Lizzy is a private investigator who teaches self-defense to teenage girls in her free time. She does what she can to help others protect themselves and to forget the horror of her ordeal, yet fears she will always be known as “the one who got away.” Then she receives a phone call from Jared, now a special agent for the FBI, with grim news. The killer has resurfaced, this time with a very specific target—Lizzy. And he’s made it clear that she will not escape him again. So begins a chilling game of cat-and-mouse, a terrifying, heart-pounding hunt that only one will survive.
This was an ok start to this series. To be honest though, I got frustrated. There was a lot of secondary characters that were introduced who felt like they had no reason to be there; one of the other characters could have filled the role in some way or that portion could have even been omitted. And a lot of the characters, especially the ones who should know better made stupid, idiotic choices. I mean, what normal person, let alone someone who's supposed to go after bad guys, leaves their phone behind?
I wavered on my feelings about Lizzy. On the one hand, I could understand her issues after everything that had happened, but still, there was something there and I just...I couldn't feel as bad for her as I might have. Maybe that's just me but I just felt like she wallowed in her issues too much rather than trying to deal with them. I started to feel a little better about her as she finally put her foot down and decided she was done dealing with Spiderman, but yeah. I did think the chemistry between she and Jared was decent and mildly sweet that he had those thoughts about what a future could have been.
Cathy pissed me off. Frustrated with her life or not, why was she such a bitch to Lizzy? Jared was right in pointing out that she hadn't been the nice person. But seriously? She's going to yell at Lizzy for basically not getting over this and then when she tries to do something about it, she takes away her niece? Seriously?! And the Moreno storyline pissed me the hell off too. Fiction or not, under no circumstances do you
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STEAL ANOTHER PERSON'S PSYCH FILE!! FUCK NO! I don't care if she had no journalistic integrity, something evidenced by the fact that she was willing to consider a psycho serial killers request if only to get a scoop, but where the FUCK were her morals! You DO NOT under any circumstances violate someone that way. Absolutely not!I did get a little confused with the dates. Like on the one hand, it's nice to have those things because it tells you where you are in things, but on the other hand, it would have been nice if it included a location of some kind (Lizzy's apartment, Brittany's school, office, etc) to help determine a little more where things actually were. It was a little jarring to be focused on one thing and then have the break in the middle of the page and suddenly be back in the house with Hayley.
Like I mentioned, this was an ok intro to this series. But to be honest, between my frustrations/annoyances here and glancing ahead at some of the summaries, I don't know that I'm interested or invested enough to read the rest of the books.