Review: Gripping read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2013
This was a truly gripping read which, literally, kept me up all night. As silly as it might sound, I did not want to close my eyes until I knew all of the main characters were safe.As a parent, the subject matter really drove home as I tried putting myself into the situation, imagining how I might feel if one of my children had been kidnapped. Most of the time, though, I felt I was walking in the shoes of the male lead character, Felix/O. I felt his determination and even levels of desperation as the story unfolded. Sometimes I felt invincible; at other times, I felt as though the next breath could be my last.Stevens did an excellent job telling a story which will resonate in every parent's and caretaker's soul. He made the story come alive in ways I didn't expect. I will definitely be reading more work by this author.Why the 4 stars? Cosmetic reasons...though there were a few typos, the paragraph structure distracted me most. Being used to reading single-spaced paragraphs, it was distracting reading double-spaced paragraphs until I was a couple of chapters into the book and adjusted. However, this paragraph style could work perfectly well for someone else.