Review: Characters are so real, they're scary
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2013
What would you do if you found out your life was a total lie?  Bailey Saunders is about to find out.Captured Lies had my attention from the very beginning, with a newspaper article dated February 14, 1983.  With that said, I had high expectations for this book.  The first chapter was amazing.  I have to admit I'm a little torn as to my feelings for this book.  At times, I think there was information put in that wasn't needed.  At the same time, the book left me wanting more.Bailey Saunders, aka Cassidy Lefevre, was kidnapped from Gracefield Hospital when she was only two days old.  While reading this book, I became more and more impressed with Bailey as the story went on.  Bailey/Cassidy is a survivor in EVERY sense of the word.  Due to people in her life that she don't even know, she shouldn't have even been born.  As an infant, she even escaped death.  Born into a life of privilege, she grew up with barely enough to survive.  At a young age, she became streetsmart, a skill she will need to survive now and find out why people want her dead.Guy Turner is a private investigator/former cop hired by his step-grandmother, Dorothea Lindell, to locate Cassidy.  Guy, who has a dark past of his own, isn't truly Dorothea's grandchild, but was taken in by her because she knew his mother and grandmother.  Dorothea is the true grandmother of Cassidy/Bailey.  In the twenty-nine years since Cassidy's disappearance, Dorothea has never stopped looking for her only grandchild.  Unfortunately, Dorothea's desire to find Cassidy and Guy's asking of questions, endangers Bailey/Cassidy's life.  It appears some secrets are better left unknown and several people want Bailey dead before those secrets are brought to light.The list of suspects is a little long.  The tangled web that surrounds this story is unbelievable.  Ms. Thom did a great job in that respect.  I literally had to write information down on a piece of paper to keep up with everything.  Looking back, it might have been possible to figure out who was behind Cassidy's initial kidnapping, but the question of why wasn't answered until almost the end.Captured Lies is a story full of surprises.  You get introduced to some pretty bad characters.  I mean people that nightmares are made of.  The story has violent moments with physical abuse and hints of sexual abuse.  There is a mini romance, but there isn't a lot of detail; it's pretty much left to your imagination.  I loved that Maggie included a little humorous dialog between Bailey and Guy as a way to break up all of the tension going on in the book.What I didn't like about the book was that I felt it was missing closure.  I don't know if this is part of a series.  Part of me hopes it isn't because I feel Bailey/Cassidy has already endured WAY too much.Would I read Maggie Thom?  The answer to that question is a definite yes.Source:  AuthorReviewed for Read Your Writes Book Reviews