My name is Mila and this is my journey.

I came to this country with great expectations of making a new life for myself. The thought of going overseas to start a new life left me with great joy. I had these great thoughts in my head of having a good job then meeting a handsome man who i would fall in love with and having many friends i could trust. The truth i discovered though was one of horror beyond redemption. One were all my expections were blown apart from lies so savage it left me scared and embarresed. I was exposed to brutal violence that stripped me of my dignity and left me questioning everything that this country stood for and left me with only one person i could trust. My one true friend Olena who helped me escape only to find we were being followed by one of the most powerful men in the country. One who will stop at nothing to silence me and my friend. Please wont someone help us?

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen is the second of hers books ive read and left me uneasy to think that this same situation is playing out for real in many places in the world today. The story goes of a body of a young women found and before Maura is able to perform a postmortem the lady opens her eyes. It becomes clear she is still alive and is taken to hospital. The lady is highly unstable and after trying to be restrained kills a security guard and seizes one who is Jane who is in the last stages of pregnancy. The question is who is this women and what are her motives? Things become more complicated when a man named Joe sneaks into the hospital and joins the women. What soon is uncovered is huge with sex, murder and corruption going all the way to the highest levels of government.

Vanish was gripping reading and left me clamering to discover what happens next. While words like terryfying and riverting are often overused in this sense describe the book perfectly. At no time did the sense of unease stop even with lighter moments like with Jane and her daughter Regina as you knew that this was just a brief lull before the train starts up again. At times disturbing, at times it left me shell shocked with the sheer scale of what was happening. One things for sure if i was on holidays right now i would of read from start to finish in one sitting as this book is almost impossible to put down. This is top shelf reading from start to finish.

I often wonder what my life would be like if i had stayed in my home town of Kryvicy in Belarus. In truth i had nothing for me to hold onto there with both my parents dead before i was 13 and no friends. Although i will never be able to erase the horrors of my time in the hellhole that was my prison for what seemed like years im grateful to be able to stay here. My name is Mila and this is my journey a journey that is just starting.