Review: Salvation
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
Salvation by Noelle Adams4 StarsI am a little torn about how I felt about this book.  The reason is, there is a horrible thing that happens to Diana, the main character.  Her father is a wealthy businessman and evidentally gets mixed up with the wrong people (an Albanian gang) and because of this she is abducted.  She is taken in broad daylight, thrown into the trunk of a car and brought to a house.  A house where she is put into a room where there seems to be another prisoner, Gideon.Gideon is an undercover FBI agent who’s cover has been blown and is waiting to basically be killed as soon as the Albanian gangs leader arrives.  Gideon has been undercover with this gang for years and was considered “one of them”.  While they are in the room together trying to figure out why Diana has been brought there, a conversation erupts in Albanian outside their room and Gideon realizes what is about to happen (he obviously understand Albanian).  Part of the gang that is there wants to have sex with Diana and they are fighting over it.  He immediately relays this to her and begins to “pump her up” if you will how she should “find a happy place” and not to fight them because they will like that, etc. etc…The men enter the room, Gideon fights them but loses and unfortunately for Diana, the men take her and 3 of them rape her but all the while she is replaying what Gideon told her before she was taken and is somehow able to disconnect from the brutality of it all.  She is returned to the room to find Gideon badly beaten and broken and they try to console each other.  Because Gideon has not checked in with superiors, they are alerted there is trouble and sweep in and rescue them.  Does this all seem rushed and not many details given? Yes?  Well that was how I felt reading it.  It was very cut and dry and the whole scene felt rushed through with not much detail behind it all.  To be honest, at this point I didn’t have much hope for the book.As I read on however, it basically covers both of them healing and getting past the tragedy they both faced together.  Diana is a just a lost, wounded and broken shell of a person and is barely hanging on by a thread and Gideon repeatedly checks on her to see how she is doing.  At first she is reluctant and it is a struggle for her to see him because of what it represents and reminds her of.  But Gideon is relentless and never gives up on her.  His guilt for not being able to save her is all consuming.  The rest of the book was nothing like the first part, it was detailed and you felt like it was real and experienced all the fear and angst that the characters were feeling.  You can feel the progress they make in healing and the times they aren’t doing too good and memories consume them.  Sometimes these type of stories just don’t feel real but this one did and the relationship and trust and bond that is formed between Gideon and Diana is truly genuine.  I loved seeing them heal each other and form an unbreakable bond.I am glad that I did not listen to my gut instinct after reading the beginning of the book and ventured on…it turned out to be really good.