For seventeen-year-old Samantha Campbell, running back woods trails usually means freedom from her less-than-perfect life. That is, until the day a morning run turns into a living nightmare. When Samantha wakes up to find herself bound to a dirty, pinstriped mattress, she realizes she’s anything but free. With a masked abductor repeatedly injecting her arm with an unknown substance while holding … holding her captive, Samantha tries in vain to find out what he wants, but he refuses to speak. Until the day he breaks his silence and his twisted words are worse than what she’d imagined. He promises her one day she will fall in love with him but the best part will be that she won’t know who he is… until it’s too late.
Finding herself freed from captivity, with her captor still at large, Samantha is on guard against everything and everyone around her. Unfortunately, walling up her heart proves difficult when eighteen-year-old Blake Knightley moves in next door. When Samantha starts experiencing strange changes within her, she realizes her captor may have left her more damaged than she originally thought. Now she must turn to Blake for help in order to unearth the truth behind the monster who started this all… or risk experiencing worse things than just falling in love.
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I couldn’t pur this book down! I thought I had guessed the ending and it completely took me by surprise in the end. That never happens! The characters were sympathetic and the story is interesting. I can’t wait to dive into the next book.
I’m not a writer, but I have read a great deal. This book just left me feeling that it needed a little more attention to become really good.
It was fast paced and kept your interest
This book is obviously for teens with the nature of some of the relationships in it, but the concept is original and makes it a fun read for anyone. There were a few unexpected twists that made the book even more enjoyable.
I enjoyed this book but probably not enough to buy the second one at full price.
It would be a good book if the author used someone to fact check or stuck to ideas she had a firm grasp of.
It’s a Page turner
I truly enjoyed this book. I’m not usually into young adult books but this one is a page turner. The characters are original and the plot is one of a kind. Five stars for the start of a great series.
I loved the way it was written and the plot twist at the end
I absolutely loved this cover and when I saw it I had to read the synopsis. It sounded like a suspense thriller with maybe a hint of a paranormal twist to it and a bit of romance. Yep, I was ready to really enjoy this book.
What I got was nowhere near that. The abduction happens at the beginning and there is very little suspense or terror at all to it. Once Sam gets out it’s as if the abduction was an annoying little incident that didn’t have much effect on her life. The author tries to say it did but it’s just that, said. None of Sam or her family’s reacts reflect that.
Her mother is trying to hook her up with the new boy down the street. A month after getting abducted? Sam is getting rides home from school with a guy she barely knows even though she is paranoid of everyone. Again, we are told that but her actions don’t portray that. She goes to therapy once a week. After being tied to a bed in a cabin for three weeks and being injected with who knows what? And she only needs to see a therapist once a week?
The male love interest, Blake, is a conceded and completely annoying. Not at all charming like I think he is supposed to come off. And no one seems to care that Sam was abducted. Blake finds out and it doesn’t faze him at all. Sam returns to school and no one stares at her. There are no whispers. It’s just life as usual. She is hanging out with all her friends and talking about going to a dance the first day back.
And then… then it gets unbearably stupid. At 18% I had to call it quits. It was just too dumb. I won’t even say what happens because I hate spoilers but wow. Dumb.
I had a lot of problems about how Sam is described too. Sam is depicted as anorexic thin, like that is a good thing. An amazingly beautiful thing actually. But she wants to be unattractive so she cuts her beautiful blond hair short and dyes it brown to her mother’s despair. Yep, short brown hair is apparently the quickest way to make yourself ugly. I guess if you’re not an anorexic blond you’re hideous. It was just written in a way that would be terrible for a younger reader.
I absolutely hate not finishing a book because I read slowly and have little spare time to read so quitting a book feels like I wasted so much time. In this case I believe finishing the book would be an even bigger waste of time.
I liked this novel with its twists and turns all through out the novel. Enough so that I looked up her other novels. The first novel in her first series started out exactly like this first novel in her second series. After that, I lost all interest!
I didn’t want it to end, I was so caught up in the story.
didn’t enjoy it that much.
I read the entire series in one weekend and loved the story! I would like to see more of these characters.
I can honestly say that I loved this book. I had an idea who the “Monster” was but how they were the monster took me completely by surprise and left me feeling more sorry for them than actually upset. Every step of this book had me waiting on the next page.
It was exciting to see where it was going can’t wait to read the next book
It was ok, not bingeworthy or anything
I had a tough time putting this one down.
VERY DIFFERENT