Review: Compelling Suspense By A Gifted author
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
False Security by Angie Martin is the kind of book I just couldn't stop reading. It's a new haunting love story by Angie Martin, and this author knows how to get me hooked into a tale from the first page.The book is a haunting love story, but it is more than that—it is a story of compulsion, domination and battering.The story begins with Rachel's dream of running. The dream recurs at key points in the story and is emblematic of the book’s meaning. For Rachel Thomas, the main character, has been in the thrall of evil minds and doing her best to escape for most of her life.At the book's start, Rachel and her best friend Danielle are living in Wichita, Kansas where they teach martial arts to battered women. Her life begins to change, we think, when, reluctantly, Rachel agrees to a first date with an attractive man, Mark Jacobson. But we soon learn that Rachel has more than an ordinary dose of fear.As the plot unfolded, it kept me in its grip. I realized that Rachel and Danielle have been abruptly leaving towns for a long time. Rachel is adept at disguise and taking leave. As she weaves a life, trying to elude who or what or why becomes increasingly unclear. But soon the mystery surrounding her past unravels and along with Mark, I found myself in the center of a deadly front. The title, False Security, gives a clue.Moving from town to town doesn't rid Rachel of her recurring dream. If anything, it heightens her fears, certainly the fear we feel. To disclose more of the plot would spoil it, I’m afraid. But there are plenty of twists and turns, sudden violence and deadly surprises in this tightly woven plot. Rachel Thomas can't seem to feel safe.There are moments of terror, moments of beauty, quiet moments of love, and seething times of terror. But in the end, False Security is a beautiful love story that you will not want to miss.And, by the way, I looked for misspellings, but didn't find them so I don't know what one reviewer was talking about.