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A review by wordaddiction
The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne
4.0
4.5 ⭐️'s. Read my full review at www.blairsbookbenders.com
This book was fantastic, but it wasn't much of a psychological thriller. There wasn't any physiological response or sensations of fear while reading it. If you love true crime and stories like those of Elizabeth Smart, Amanda Berry, or Jaycee Dugard, then you might enjoy this book.
It's the story of Helena, who is hunting down her father in the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after he kills two prison guards and escapes during a transport. Helena is the product of a rape after her mother was kidnapped by her father at 14 and forced to live in the wilderness with him for 14 years. Helena was 12 when she found out who her father really was and what he had done, then was rescued from his imprisonment. Now that he's escaped from prison and is on the lam, she knows that with his expertise in living off the grid and surviving in the wilderness, she is the only one who will ever be able to find him. After all, he is the one who taught her everything he knows.
This book was a lot about Helena reliving the days of her childhood. How she loved her father, and he was her hero, and how she saw her mom as this depressed and miserable person. It really gets you thinking about her perspective as a child and how it's not so far-fetched that, as a reasonable adult, she still might feel this way. As the story goes on, we see her mindset about both her past and present life evolve as she reconciles a lot of feelings and thoughts that she's kept bottled up for half of her life.
I highly recommend reading this book, but don't watch the movie they just made about it. Yuck. It's terrible.
This book was fantastic, but it wasn't much of a psychological thriller. There wasn't any physiological response or sensations of fear while reading it. If you love true crime and stories like those of Elizabeth Smart, Amanda Berry, or Jaycee Dugard, then you might enjoy this book.
It's the story of Helena, who is hunting down her father in the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after he kills two prison guards and escapes during a transport. Helena is the product of a rape after her mother was kidnapped by her father at 14 and forced to live in the wilderness with him for 14 years. Helena was 12 when she found out who her father really was and what he had done, then was rescued from his imprisonment. Now that he's escaped from prison and is on the lam, she knows that with his expertise in living off the grid and surviving in the wilderness, she is the only one who will ever be able to find him. After all, he is the one who taught her everything he knows.
This book was a lot about Helena reliving the days of her childhood. How she loved her father, and he was her hero, and how she saw her mom as this depressed and miserable person. It really gets you thinking about her perspective as a child and how it's not so far-fetched that, as a reasonable adult, she still might feel this way. As the story goes on, we see her mindset about both her past and present life evolve as she reconciles a lot of feelings and thoughts that she's kept bottled up for half of her life.
I highly recommend reading this book, but don't watch the movie they just made about it. Yuck. It's terrible.