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Wow.... just wow!
It is hard to sit here and wrap my head around the fact that this is a debut novel. Chevy Stevens has done a remarkable job with this book!
The book is broken down into "sessions" with a therapist. I felt like I was actually reading a dictated copy of the main characters chart.
Annie is a realtor who is abducted during an open house. She spends a year being tormented physically and emotionally by her abductor who she calls "The Freak" and I can't think of a better description of ...more
It is hard to sit here and wrap my head around the fact that this is a debut novel. Chevy Stevens has done a remarkable job with this book!
The book is broken down into "sessions" with a therapist. I felt like I was actually reading a dictated copy of the main characters chart.
Annie is a realtor who is abducted during an open house. She spends a year being tormented physically and emotionally by her abductor who she calls "The Freak" and I can't think of a better description of ...more
There's been a lot of hype about this first novel by Chevy Stevens. I have to say, after reading a few chapters I was not getting what all the hype was about. And then I got hooked. In a nutshell: young realtor is working an Open House and is about to close up when a nice looking man shows up at the last minute. He ends up kidnapping her and squirreling her away in a remote cabin for over a year until she manages to escape. The narration alternates between what she's telling her therapist in ses
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This book is extraordinary and in my opinion, one the best thriller-suspense books ever written. It's hard for me to believe that this is Chevy Stevens' first novel, because the writing is fantastic, the story gripping, the twists and turns shocking, and the main character, Annie O'Sullivan, completely likeable and believeable in her trauma and how she handles it.
Annie is abducted by a stranger whom she calls The Freak. Although it's clear that she survives the ordeal from the first page of the ...more
Annie is abducted by a stranger whom she calls The Freak. Although it's clear that she survives the ordeal from the first page of the ...more
A scary but amazing debut.
This one starts off in the vein of Emma Donaghue's Room, but it develops into a novel about dysfunctional families and this one is worse than most. It was hard to be sympathetic toward any of the main characters except for Christine. They all seemed to be more than a little self centered and unable to think beyond the immediate future. Not a book to pick if you are looking to be cheered up.
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Given the subject matter this one will invariably draw comparisons to Room, and unfortunately for Stevens the bar is set too high for her to hurdle. But even without the admittedly tough competition, this one still doesn't give much for the reader to hang on to. I'm not a reader who wants or expects a tidy ending, but I do feel that it's incumbent on authors who choose to go messy to provide a sense of meaning and purpose behind the story to validate that decision. Here, I'm left wondering what
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