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A review by mellabella
Baby Doll by Hollie Overton
3.0
This was not a "tense thriller". I wasn't expecting such. But now I'm reading blurbs that are saying that it is.
Lily and Abby are twins. One day (in high school) they bicker over a black sweater. Lily disappears that same day.
Lily is taken by a handsome, favorite high school teacher named Rick Hanson. He hides his depravity behind charm and a caring, facade.
This was the aftermath of someone who survived something horrific. How do you go back to living a "normal" life after being someones slave and captive for 8 years? Bearing his child? Catering to his moods? All the while being subject to unimaginable physical and sexual violence, manipulation, and conditioning?
Lily got through her days by thinking of her family. Especially Abby. Later, she devotes herself to her daughter Sky.
It opens with Lily discovering the door to the cabin he keeps her unlocked. He has become cocky and a little careless.
She also discovers that she has been close to her loved ones all those years.
At times this book seemed rushed. For lack of a better word.
Was it a thriller because Rick was planning an escape from prison? Not only was he sick bastard. His character was a smug SOB.
You can't help but think of real life stores of late. Women being held prisoner since they were pre teen and teenage girls...
I read it in a day. The author does an adequate job (I would assume) of writing from someone who was kidnap and held for years pov.
Lily and Abby are twins. One day (in high school) they bicker over a black sweater. Lily disappears that same day.
Lily is taken by a handsome, favorite high school teacher named Rick Hanson. He hides his depravity behind charm and a caring, facade.
This was the aftermath of someone who survived something horrific. How do you go back to living a "normal" life after being someones slave and captive for 8 years? Bearing his child? Catering to his moods? All the while being subject to unimaginable physical and sexual violence, manipulation, and conditioning?
Lily got through her days by thinking of her family. Especially Abby. Later, she devotes herself to her daughter Sky.
It opens with Lily discovering the door to the cabin he keeps her unlocked. He has become cocky and a little careless.
She also discovers that she has been close to her loved ones all those years.
At times this book seemed rushed. For lack of a better word.
Was it a thriller because Rick was planning an escape from prison? Not only was he sick bastard. His character was a smug SOB.
You can't help but think of real life stores of late. Women being held prisoner since they were pre teen and teenage girls...
I read it in a day. The author does an adequate job (I would assume) of writing from someone who was kidnap and held for years pov.