I really wanted to like this novel, as the synopsis sounded great. Unfortunately, it failed to live up to it's promise.

The writing was stilted and flat, I found it hard to get into.
The characters were wooden and almost emotionless. The way they reacted to situations was unrealistic and downright bizarre.

I hate to be so negative about a book and I almost never give 1 star reviews, but I don't have a single positive thing I can say about this book.

This book wasn't one of my favorites, this was one of my first from this author. I think the book had good potential, but started out slow!

Hanna is a med student living a good life when she is abducted and is forced into a new existence
on a farm, taking the place of the abductor's son who supposedly died at the hands of her father, a
cardiologist.
I found the story very lagging and the plot way too strange to even follow at times.
It was an ARC and the story ended on the second last page, mid sentence - very strange.
Never had that happen before.
Definitely ended, for me, as it began.
Slow and not terribly commanding.

I thought the premise was good but it felt more like reading someone’s journal rather than showing the details.

I started this book with high hopes, the story had a lot of potential, but I personally felt like the ending was rushed and not realistic due to the nature of how the story unfolds. The story begins with our main character Hannah, who is a scholar and the daughter of a cardiovascular surgeon. She is following in her family footsteps in becoming a doctor. We get a detailed back story on her Jewish heritage, meeting her college roommates, classes and a summer women’s self defense workshop, working at the same hospital her father works at, her brief romance and her subsequent kidnapping. The story while plausible at times, I personally felt that in the short time she was held captive that the story line felt rushed. Maybe I needed morecharacter development from the towns people and interactions to get a better understanding of the “kidnappers family” if they were good people in grief or a family who had lots of problems in town and were eccentric and/or respected around the community. The way it ended was okay about bringing it together, but it just didn’t seem plausible of her family reacting the way they did. While the book was an easy read, I don’t know if I could recommend it to others since in the end it just didn’t seem like Hannah’s family/friends/police would just “let things go”