Review: Wrong, just wrong....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
I'm torn between hating & liking this book and for that reason, for the fact that the author has managed to elicit this conflict of emotions in me, I have given it 2 stars. The storyline however is a romantizing of kidnapping & human trafficking that is just wrong. IT'S WRONG! Period. There is no maybe about it. The moment you take away another person's freedom of choice, you take away a very basic human right. Breaking that person so far that they accept the situation as being some kind of heaven doesn't make it right. The fact that you live in a gold-plated cage doesn't make it any more acceptable. It's still a cage! I've read other kidnap themes before like Aretha Romig's "Consequences"series which I absolutely LOVED. The difference with those books was that the actions were not romanticized in any way. The reader experiences the angst & the disgust along with the victim & even when the victim makes the choice to stay, you as a reader don't empathize but actually want to enter the book & shake some sense into the victim. You know it's wrong & the author doesn't paint it any other way. This book however tries to make you empathize with the antagonist & in a way tries to portray what happens as "acceptable/justifiable". This is dangerous material for young, easily-influenced minds. I think.