This one... well.. it was different! Nothing like what I had expected. None the less though it was a good read!

Pregnant, 16-year-old girl abducted. Girl is unique. Guy is weird. Book was a little confusing, bizarre, odd... Mind blowing, maybe, but not in my normal good way.

I have had this book on my list for a long time and, for some reason never gave it a chance. Well, I finally did and realized what a prize I had been missing. Method 15/33, by Shannon Kirk begins with a scream not a whimper. Ms. Kirk opens with a pregnant girl on day 4 of being kidnapped, so that you just want to keep on reading. Her descriptive scenarios and deep delve into the characters feelings really draw you into the story and never let you go.

This book will appeal to anyone who likes thrillers, mysteries or psychological thrillers, without a doubt. Please do yourself a favor and read this book, you will NOT be disappointed!

This was interesting. Lighter than I expected in some ways but I think that is due to the MC's emotional disconnect. It was both frustrating and interesting to get into her mind and see how she thinks. IT was a bit slow but I was curious at first. Things really pick up about halfway through but then I felt it dived into unnessassary backround dumps. Like, I want to get to know my characters at first, the main plot of the book is over and it just sounds like pointless rambling. A lot could have been shaved off this. Favorite character: Boyd.

sleep with one eye open. Graphic and chilling. You will want to cuddle in but be suspicious of everyone

Method 15/33 is not a great book - this is not well written and there is nothing gripping about it - the advanced reader's copy was so bad that I have marked it as DNF and MUST NEVER READ! Gave up within 6 chapters and then deleted this book!
It was an unfortunate waste of precious reading time which I will never get back!

I was expecting more than just a teen who has a magical ability to shut off their emotions and have Sherlock-ian superpowers to rival McGyver. I didn't hate this book. It was a fun read if your idea of fun is a teenager being kidnapped. I have a great suspension of belief but even this character and her abilities were a stretch for me.

Thoroughly enjoyed this! Fast and furious read with a truly engaging main protagonist and a healthy dose of ironic brilliance.

The synopsis of this book really intrigued me. A precocious pregnant teenager from a well-to-do background being kidnapped. And then I started hearing promising reviews for the book so I was even more intrigued.

The first couple of chapters really confused me, they were very wordy but given the narrator was this precocious super intelligent teenager, they made sense. It took a little getting used to.

I didn’t warm to the main character Lisa, I get she’s meant to be this super brain but by the time she did anything remotely unselfish, she’d really turned me off liking her.

I have to say the second half of the book was much better than the first half. The pace increased, my interest started to pique. I’m not saying this is a bad book, it just wasn’t a book for me. I think I’m in the minority who didn’t gel with the story. We can’t all love the same books otherwise life would be boring!!

Thanks to Oceanview Publishing and Netgalley for my ecopy of The Method (formerly known as Method 15/33).

Unfortunately I found this book difficult to read use to the narrator

Incredible! I didn't mind the typos and grammatical issues, only because the story was intriguing enough that I was able to ignore it. Excellent story because it kept me on my toes but boy was I wrong about what I thought the ending was. Very excited to read more about it.

Pregnant 16 year old Lisa is kidnapped and taken to a house where she’s kept hostage, with the intention of selling her baby to a paying couple, and then killing Lisa. Lisa knows she’s not the first girl to be taken to this house, and she won’t be the last if she can’t escape and stop her captor. Little does her captor know, Lisa is incredibly calculated an unemotional. She spends her time in captivity coming up with a plan to kill him, and playing the part of scared teenager in the meantime.

While Lisa is being held captive, Special Agent Roger Lui and his partner Lola are working on a case where another pregnant teen has been reported missing. This builds up to the point where Agent Lui and Lisa finally cross paths, and the outcome is explosive.

While I enjoyed the fact that the book was short, I found that some parts of the book felt repetitive to me. There were parts I ended up skimming because I wasn’t invested in the small details of day to day life for any of the characters. The other thing I struggled with was the fact that I couldn’t connect to any of the characters. I was rooting for Lisa, but at the same time felt weird about rooting for her because she is such a flawed individual, with a small capacity for emotion. She was cold and calculating, which was necessary for her to survive and save her unborn son, but she wasn’t anyone I’d want to cross paths with, and in another book could have been the killer herself. She showed no remorse, guilt, or moral hangups about the actions she took, and I’m not sure how I feel about that.

Overall, the book was a quick read, and was interesting for the most part. If you enjoy books with deeply flawed protagonists that you feel slightly perturbed rooting for, then this may be a great choice for you! This was a 3 star read for me. A huge thank you to Netgalley, Shannon Kirk, and Oceanview Publishing for a copy of the book. It was my pleasure to provide an honest review.

Sometimes we underestimate people solely based on their age but when a 16 year old pregnant teen is kidnapped on her way to school, her abductor has no idea what he's in for. You see, Lisa's not your typical teenager. She is brilliant and patient, detailed and strategic and it may just be her abductor's misfortune to have stolen someone who's as potentially psychotic as he is.

I absolutely loved this book and could not put it down. As so far as you can like a book about the abduction of any teenager, it was wonderfully written and left you waiting for the next asset. while the book focuses on the teen and her situation, you're also drawn into the lives of 2 FBI agents - each as dysfunctional as the other making them the perfect crime fighting duo.

I would (and have) suggested this book to anyone that loves a good twisting story that will keep you up late with anticipation of the next chapter!

This book blew my mind. BROKE it. I was creepy, freaked me out and I totally loved every minute of it. Roller coaster ride for your mind. My review is up on Amazon under my name Kimberly-Aisha Hashmi. Thank you for the honor of selecting me to read this and review it. I hope you choose me again in the future!

Thoroughly enjoyed this! Fast and furious read with a truly engaging main protagonist and a healthy dose of ironic brilliance.

She has been kidnapped – pregnant and held against her will, 16 years old, two FBI agents on the case, you’d expect your normal type of “hang on in there possibly show some guts wait to be rescued” type psychological thriller. Nope. this is not your normal teenager, she has a sharp, focused scientific mind and an ability to turn her various emotions on and off at will. Plus an extraordinarily intense maternal instinct and a tendency towards being vengeful.

Poor kidnappers.

Still, the tension is palpable even though, as she is writing this many years later, a story for her now grown child, you know she’s probably going to be ultimately fine. Or her rather different definition of fine anyway. This is no secret from very early on. The beauty of this one is in watching her plan unfold, see her brain working, whilst her hapless yet still somewhat scary captors continue with their plans to steal her child…

It rocks along this book, hearing from our captive and then from the agent who spends his life looking for the missing – both of them have highly intriguing personalities of differing sorts, there was not a single moment of this that I was not practically hugging the narrative. It gets the blood up, a real rollicking page turner, with a fair few surprises along the way, characters to die for, a whole load of fun despite the premise, although there are some sobering moments that give pause for thought too. Plenty of layers here, I loved all of them.

The final parts of this book make for really cool reading as you see exactly what all the little preparations have been for, making you want to fist pump the air (although my advice is don’t do that you drop the book and then have to scrabble around to retrieve your spot) and I don’t think I’m going to get the image of that heavily pregnant, sixteen year old, angel of vengeance out of my head anytime soon. Can we hope that we meet her again in her adult life? Certainly the author allows for this possibility, with a wonderfully poignant and intelligent ending.

Loved it. Sometimes you just boogie right along with the book tune, this one was rock and roll.

Recommended.

**review also on Goodreads and Amazon**

This is the first book I've read by this author and wow talk about being thrown in the deep end.

My view of this book kept changing. While reading I kept asking myself would I recommend this read to my friends & how many stars will I be giving it. This is one of them stories where it's best to wait until you've read it all.

Lisa is the main character in this story. We also get to read of the detectives point of view as well. Let's get back to Lisa. I didn't read the blurb until I'd finished the book. If I had I'd have seen that Lisa is described as a manipulative prodigy. Keep that in mind when reading this story. I didn't and kept questioning how a sixteen year old would think the way Lisa did.

Lisa is a really strong character. She tells her story many years later as she writes it in a manuscript. We see inside the mind of her being held captive and her strong need to keep her unborn baby safe. As you read on you will see her mind doesn't think like most people do and she can switch her feelings on and off like a switch.

The last quarter was my favourite. I went from thinking I'd be giving this a three star to giving it a five when all the pieces fell into place in my mind. Although not an easy or quick read I thought the author did a great job with this book.

This story is a hard one to rate due to being so hit and miss for me. There were parts I loved, parts I detested, and many variances in between.

The story is told through the eyes of the kidnapped victim who for the first half of the book I thought was named Dorothy. I’m guessing the narrator thought it would be an interesting twist to reveal her name as Lisa. However, I thought the entire red-herring part of that pointless, after all it was rather clear Lisa wasn’t the first victim.

The premise of the story is fantastic, I was all for a heroine becoming the victor but she was such an unlikable character, I felt the same lack of emotion as her, therefore I didn’t really care if she escaped or not. As for the ‘bad guys’ they were so incompetent it was laughable.

My biggest issue was the narrator trying to engage the reader, I’m not in your story so don’t talk to me as if you know me, and for goodness sake, if you do why be so antagonistic? Sure it got a rise out of me, and I love a book that makes me feel, BUT I don’t like one that makes me feel agitated, so much so that I put the book aside when Detective Lui declared to the reader…"I thought it would be rude to inquire about the attention he did or did not give his chickens. So I didn't ask. And if this upsets you, too bad. I chase lost children, not neglected poultry. Go cry to PETA."

Anyhow, due to the fact I received this book for review purposes, I picked it back up. So back to the plot, the story is a retelling of events that occurred seventeen years earlier, so once Dorothy is free the story follows life ‘after’ the abduction. I can’t say I bought into it all, but hey this is fiction, and stranger things have happened.

Copy received via NetGalley

It took a whi,e to really get into it but I did enjoy this story. It's a very different concept to what I'm used to reading.

**Review will be LIVE on March 1, 2017

Method 15/33 by Shannon Kirk came highly recommended by my good friend Janel at Keeper of Pages. She kept insisting that this fast-paced, intense thriller would be the book to kick me out of the book slump I had been experiencing. She was right!

I read Method 15/33 easily within a couple of hours; at 226 pages, it was the perfect book to curl up with for an afternoon and become completely sucked in.

The novel follows a pregnant, sixteen-year-old girl, as a ring of human traffickers kidnap her and prepare to deliver her baby and sell it to the highest bidder. She should feel helpless, alone and terrified. But she doesn’t. Instead, Lisa, a calculating, methodical and manipulative prodigy is eerily calm. She desires two things. To save her unborn son and to exact merciless revenge on the people who have taken her. This is not your regular, run of the mill abduction story.

Crazy right??!

I am a huge fan of strong female protagonists and Lisa is about as strong as they come. Cold and calculating, I remained in shock and awe of her throughout my reading! She quickly takes in her surroundings and bides her time until she can use her assets, from a piece of twine to a cup of water, to help save herself. Some say she was too cold and unbelievable; I found the complete opposite to be true. I found her to be incredibly endearing and the truest example of the intensity of a mother’s instinct.

The novel is narrated in alternating perspectives between Lisa, in captivity, and the agents (led by Special Agent Roger Lu) who are working tirelessly to find pregnant teenage girls who have gone missing. Each narrative is developed and complex; I loved reading each equally. Lisa’s narrative voice, although sixteen, did not feel young. I never felt like I was reading a YA novel, which was important to me.

If you want a thriller that will knock you off your feet, then look no further; Method 15/33 is your novel.

I've never read anything like this before, which tells you something coming from an avid reader such as myself. It kept me on my toes and that as all you can ask from as thriller.