Enjoyable, different but not a thriller, more of a mystery.
This book follows Hannah who is forced to keep her husbands murderer in a cage prison in her kitchen due to the new rehabilitation scheme enforced by the government. We see a multi Pov story of both Hannah and Jem our prisoner. The POV follows a current timeline and a past timeline, slowly putting together the mystery of Hannah's husbands murder.
I enjoyed this story whilst reading, I liked seeing the unusual dynamic of captor and prisoner in this dystopian situation. The writing was easy to read and I read the entire thing in 3 and a half hours.
However, the reason this story got a 3 star from me was for a few reasons. Firstly there is very little that can be considered thriller in this story, with very minimal suspense scenes. This would be more of a mystery with you slowly uncovering the events of this murder. If I had been prepared to go into a mystery and not a thriller I would have been a lot happier with the results. Another problem that I have is that what happens with Jem is very predictable and the way things were going to go was guessable from the first few chapters. On the complete other side is the reveal of the murder is very unpredictable but in the worst way, there are no hints given as to the reveal and it seems as though we have been lead completely astray just for there to be the most random reveal possible and I wasn't pleased to be given something that seemed very random and not at all guessable because we were lead elsewhere.
Overall it is a decent read and I wouldn't put anyone off reading it but don't go in expecting this suspenseful thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seats, its more of a relaxed mystery to just sit and let take you on a journey.
I enjoyed this story whilst reading, I liked seeing the unusual dynamic of captor and prisoner in this dystopian situation. The writing was easy to read and I read the entire thing in 3 and a half hours.
However, the reason this story got a 3 star from me was for a few reasons. Firstly there is very little that can be considered thriller in this story, with very minimal suspense scenes. This would be more of a mystery with you slowly uncovering the events of this murder. If I had been prepared to go into a mystery and not a thriller I would have been a lot happier with the results. Another problem that I have is that what happens with Jem is very predictable and the way things were going to go was guessable from the first few chapters. On the complete other side is the reveal of the murder is very unpredictable but in the worst way, there are no hints given as to the reveal and it seems as though we have been lead completely astray just for there to be the most random reveal possible and I wasn't pleased to be given something that seemed very random and not at all guessable because we were lead elsewhere.
Overall it is a decent read and I wouldn't put anyone off reading it but don't go in expecting this suspenseful thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seats, its more of a relaxed mystery to just sit and let take you on a journey.