This book had a pretty interesting premise. A woman is abducted by a madman for a year, and the reader learns the details as she shares them with her therapist; although we never hear from the therapist directly. Everything comes through Annie O'Sullivan's eyes...and they're quite bleak.
Annie's tone is bitter, sarcastic, angry and negative. So at first she can be off-putting. But once you understand everything she'd been through, it's easier to take.
The way things unfolded was something to behold...but the getting there began wearing thin. Annie tended to ramble in her recounting of day to day life with the captor, her early childhood, family, and present day to day life. I found myself urging her to get on with it, to move the plot along. How did you escape??
When we finally find out what went down, many unnecessary events were thrown in, which just weighed the plot down in my opinion and became distracting. It seemed everyone and their mother had some horrible thing happen in their past in this book. It felt a bit much.
Overall, it held my interest, but I found the tone dreary and depressing and was disappointed there wasn't much light at the end of Annie's tunnel. I could've read something else.
Annie's tone is bitter, sarcastic, angry and negative. So at first she can be off-putting. But once you understand everything she'd been through, it's easier to take.
The way things unfolded was something to behold...but the getting there began wearing thin. Annie tended to ramble in her recounting of day to day life with the captor, her early childhood, family, and present day to day life. I found myself urging her to get on with it, to move the plot along. How did you escape??
When we finally find out what went down, many unnecessary events were thrown in, which just weighed the plot down in my opinion and became distracting. It seemed everyone and their mother had some horrible thing happen in their past in this book. It felt a bit much.
Overall, it held my interest, but I found the tone dreary and depressing and was disappointed there wasn't much light at the end of Annie's tunnel. I could've read something else.
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