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A review by alongreader
Jane Anonymous by Laurie Faria Stolarz
4.0
Then: Jane was snatched and wakes up alone in a small room.
Now: Jane pours her heart out on paper, trying to make sense of everything that's happened.
She only went to her empty workplace to collect a gift for her best friend. Snatched when her back was turned, she wakes up alone in a small whitewashed room. Food and other necessities are passed through a catflap in the door, and apart from an occasional whispered word from another captive, she is completely alone.
Ten months later, home with her parents again, Jane struggles with the memories and the PTSD the experience has left her with. She feels the weight of her parents' fear and worry and, on top of her own fears, it's close to breaking her. The therapists don't understand. Nothing is going right.
What an intense ride! The switching between Then and Now was well handled in this one, with information given at just the right speed. There is a twist, which I saw coming, but to be fair I read a *lot*. It was very cleverly done and I think a lot of readers will be caught by it.
I loved the way this novel showed that escaping is only one small step. After escaping the physical cell, Jane had to escape the cell in her mind, and that was much harder and took much longer. A lot of novels of this type end with the escape, as though that's the happily ever after.
A fantastic read. I think this one will do really well.
Now: Jane pours her heart out on paper, trying to make sense of everything that's happened.
She only went to her empty workplace to collect a gift for her best friend. Snatched when her back was turned, she wakes up alone in a small whitewashed room. Food and other necessities are passed through a catflap in the door, and apart from an occasional whispered word from another captive, she is completely alone.
Ten months later, home with her parents again, Jane struggles with the memories and the PTSD the experience has left her with. She feels the weight of her parents' fear and worry and, on top of her own fears, it's close to breaking her. The therapists don't understand. Nothing is going right.
What an intense ride! The switching between Then and Now was well handled in this one, with information given at just the right speed. There is a twist, which I saw coming, but to be fair I read a *lot*. It was very cleverly done and I think a lot of readers will be caught by it.
I loved the way this novel showed that escaping is only one small step. After escaping the physical cell, Jane had to escape the cell in her mind, and that was much harder and took much longer. A lot of novels of this type end with the escape, as though that's the happily ever after.
A fantastic read. I think this one will do really well.