Friday, September 10, 2010

Still Missing by Chevy Stevens

Not sure where I heard about/read about this book, but I know I did. It was fast-paced, exciting, intriguing and compelling. It tells the story of a young woman who was abducted, tortured, raped, abused, and impregnated by a psychotic man over the period of more than a year. It reminded me of John Fowles' "The Collector," at first and makes me want to read that again.
I could not put this book down. One thing that is comforting in this horrific story, is that you know that Annie, the main character, survives, because the book is told in the present tense and is told as if she is relating her experience to her shrink. So it's comforting, in a way, to know that Annie does not die at the hands of her abductor.
But what she does experience, at the hand of her abductor, and when you find out how this all came about, is so disturbing.

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