Maggie M. - , reviewed on 8/15/2018 + 400 more book reviews

I read the book to the end simply because I had gotten so far, I figured I might as well. To me, where the story started to go wrong was when her kidnapper, who is now on death row, manages to track down and contact, with help from a bleeding heart, the only girl he let live, under the guise of wanting to see her one more time, and he will supposedly give up additional names and burial locations of some of his other victims that were never linked to him. The reader is supposed to believe that this woman, who is now grown and with a husband and kids of her own, has never really gotten angry with her kidnapper, is seriously considering a new relationship with this horrible murderer. She talks it over with her husband, who, we're also supposed to believe, tells her it's okay and she should do what she wants, as does her parents. Yeah, right. And she never considers going to the police, her attorney, or even the prison officials to report this interaction that he's not allowed to have, nor does she report the bleeding heart who stalks her.

If this isn't enough, she pays to install a dedicated phone line into their bedroom and she eagerly accepts the collect calls to speak with this monster. Finally, she goes to see him at the prison, right before he is set for execution. He believes that he has manipulated her into contacting the governor to stay his execution, but she finally gets some sense/grows a pair of balls, and tells him to go pound sand, so to speak, but by this time, it's too little too late for this reader.

The book had potential, but the writer is obviously living in a fantasy life of her own to believe real victims would still want a relationship with their abductors, let alone her husband and family would give her the green light AND help pay for her to make the connection. What a waste of time I'll never get back.

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