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The Marsh King's Daughter
by Karen Dionne
I'm not sure where I read about this book, but it sounded like a good thriller, and it was. I really burned through the last half, and stayed up later than usual to finish the book. The denouement was so so. Of course in these type of books one has to suspend one's disbelief.
Set in MI's UP, a mash up of European and NAI myth and fairy tales are referenced throughout.
Narrated by the now adult daughter of an abducted woman and her psychotic, narcissist "husband".
He keeps them isolated in the UP, not that far from "civilization", but never brushing with it.
She and her mother escape when she is 12, and he is found 2 years later and sent to jail, from which he violently escapes about 12 years later.
She "realizes" she is the only one who can track him down (a skill he taught her) and take him down.
Chapters alternate between describing her growing up, and her current life (which includes a husband and 2 children, none of whom know her back story).
Lots of living-off-the-land survivalist detail. David Morrell gets a special mention in the book's Acknowledgements, and he has written similar survivialist fiction himself (inspired by Geoffrey Household's "Rogue Male" - I believe that is the correct title). Morrell has attended survivalist training himself when he was much younger. Oh, and Dionne has her character name the 2 dogs in her life "Rambo"!
Good entertainment, and obviously well researched (I am not sure how much of this the author experienced herself - her promotional photo shows a somewhat overweight, middle-aged woman - but who knows what she did in her youth?). I doubt if I will read her other novel. This title does have a following it appears. First published in 2017, I still had to wait on Hold to get an ebook of it from my local PL. And when I returned it last night there was another Hold waiting to read it after me.
Set in MI's UP, a mash up of European and NAI myth and fairy tales are referenced throughout.
Narrated by the now adult daughter of an abducted woman and her psychotic, narcissist "husband".
He keeps them isolated in the UP, not that far from "civilization", but never brushing with it.
She and her mother escape when she is 12, and he is found 2 years later and sent to jail, from which he violently escapes about 12 years later.
She "realizes" she is the only one who can track him down (a skill he taught her) and take him down.
Chapters alternate between describing her growing up, and her current life (which includes a husband and 2 children, none of whom know her back story).
Lots of living-off-the-land survivalist detail. David Morrell gets a special mention in the book's Acknowledgements, and he has written similar survivialist fiction himself (inspired by Geoffrey Household's "Rogue Male" - I believe that is the correct title). Morrell has attended survivalist training himself when he was much younger. Oh, and Dionne has her character name the 2 dogs in her life "Rambo"!
Good entertainment, and obviously well researched (I am not sure how much of this the author experienced herself - her promotional photo shows a somewhat overweight, middle-aged woman - but who knows what she did in her youth?). I doubt if I will read her other novel. This title does have a following it appears. First published in 2017, I still had to wait on Hold to get an ebook of it from my local PL. And when I returned it last night there was another Hold waiting to read it after me.