Review: Clever Title--Fits the Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2012
"Bitnapped" is a clever title, and appropriate. Kelly, an MIT graduate whofinally found employment that allowed her to move out of her parents' home,earns fifteen dollars an hour as a serf for the wealthy owner of a softwaredesign company. She works with bits and bytes but when her employer, who sherefers to as "Ogre," is kidnapped at gunpoint and she stumbles onto thescene, she is kidnapped as well.This is not your television-style kidnap. The kidnapper drives them, hooded,for hours and deposits Kelly and Rupert into a bare but clean room with twomattresses, snacks, drinking water, and an attached lavatory. After heleaves, Kelly figures out how they might be able to escape, and they do. Alittle bit kidnapped, and not for long.But then the story gets complicated with more bytes--the software programmingtype--and  plenty of snappy dialogue and well-placed humor. This is not a thriller. There is no nail-biting, stay awake all night suspense. Instead, the reader is challenged, along with Kelly and Rupert, to solve each puzzle along the way.Highly entertaining read. The ending was problematic for me. After the mysteries are solved, the writing style changes, most likely due to the plan for sequels--this is the first of an intended trilogy. End it when the story ends, and this would qualify as a five star stand-alone. I definitely would read other books from this author.