Published by William Morrow Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Psychological Thriller, suspense, thriller
Format: ARC, eBook
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare! Simone and her daughter, Lucy, are as close as can be. They plan a trip which will have them traveling from the UK to Texas for some quality mother-daughter bonding before Lucy goes to university. When Simone wakes up one morning and finds Lucy missing, her heart plummets to her feet! She is naturally freaked out and while searching the place for her daughter finds a phone with a startling message from a caller unknown! Simone’s husband wants her to call the police, but Simone plans to follow the instructions she was given. There is NOTHING that she won’t do for her daughter! It’s not money that the kidnapper wants – it’s something else entirely!
This book was instantly intriguing to me. I too, wanted to know what happened to Lucy! Who took her and why????? I came up with all kinds of theories and hoped that I was on the right track. WRONG! I was not even close!
As I mentioned I was instantly drawn into the plot. I wondered what I would do if it were my child and I received the chilling instructions from an unknown caller. What would I be willing to do? Would there be any line that I would not cross. But then things slowed down a bit. I struggle with slow. I enjoyed the suspense, tension, and fear that was jumping off the pages to continue; but unfortunately, they slowed way down! The plot became a little stagnant for me. The in the later part of the book, things did pick up, but then things veered off into OTT territory. I found myself thinking. “Come on” and “seriously”. I tend to be able to suspend disbelief for the most part with books, but in this one, I found it difficult.
What did work was the tension filled beginning of the book and how the author showed Simone’s love, her fear, her worries, and her desperate drive to get her daughter back.
Thank you to William Morrow and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
