IN SHORT: A woman is kidnapped and held in a pitch-black room in this thriller Book that isn’t as great as the author’s previous novels.

REVIEW

Amelie has built a life for herself, despite losing both her parents before she was even 18 and starting from nothing. She makes some friends and eventually ends up working at a magazine run by the young billionaire Ned Hawthorpe. Then she finds herself married to Ned.

Soon after she moves into his mansion, kidnappers take them both, and Amelie finds herself trapped in a pitch-dark room. She doesn’t know for sure why she was taken, nor who is holding her hostage. The pieces just don’t seem to fit together.

As day after day passes and her captors don’t utter a word, Amelie feels unsure of her fate, but she still somehow feels she is being taken care of while Ned is being treated more harshly. But surely the longer she stays imprisoned, the worse her chances are for finding freedom, right?

I read The Prisoner because I’d enjoyed two of B.A. Paris’s previous thriller books, The Therapist and The Breakdown, and I appreciated that both were rated mild. Clean content is fairly rare in this genre. Unfortunately, this newest book from Paris has strong profanity, breaking the clean streak. In addition, this plot didn’t quite hold up for me. The whole thing seemed like a stretch, and the outcome had to be explained at the end by one character to another. Since it’s not a classic whodunit with a master sleuth like Hercule Poirot, this method of wrapping it up didn’t work.

I recommend the other two books above, but as for this one, I recommend skipping it.

RATING

Rated: High. Profanity includes 7 uses of strong language, fewer than 10 instances of moderate profanity, fewer than 5 uses of mild language, and about 10 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Violence includes kidnapping, shooting of a gun, and some implied beating. One character is said to have sexually assaulted several women. A woman is murdered.

*I received an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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