Story Description:
Pamela Dorman
Books|July 16, 2013|Hardcover|ISBN: 978-0-670-02651-7
For years, best
friends Sarah and Jennifer kept what they called the “Never List”: a list of
actions to be avoided, for safety’s sake, at all costs. But one night, against their best instincts,
they accept a cab ride with grave, everlasting consequences. For the next three years, they are held
captive with two other girls in a dungeon-like cellar by a connoisseur of
sadism.
Ten years later,
at thirty-one, Sarah is still struggling to resume a normal life, living as a
virtual recluse under a new name, unable to come to grips with the fact that
Jennifer didn’t make it out of that cellar.
Now, her abductor is up for parole and Sarah can no longer ignore the
twisted letters he sends from jail.
Finally, Sarah
decides to confront her phobias and the other survivors who hold their own deep
grudges against her. When she goes on a
cross-country chase that takes her into the perverse world of BDSM, secret
cults, and the arcane study of torture, she begins unraveling a mystery more
horrifying than even she could have imagined.
A shocking,
blazingly fast read, Koethi Zan’s debut is a must for fans of Karin Slaughter, Laura
Lippman, and S.J. Watson.
My Review:
I couldn’t put
this book down. It is one of the best
thrillers I’ve read in quite some time.
Packed full of suspense, mystery, terror, thrills, and the unknowing
keep you right at the edge-of-your-seat throughout the entire book.
Sarah and Jennifer
had a list called “The Never List” where they recorded every possible scenario
of danger that they could possibly imagine and vowed to never get caught up in
any of those situations. They made a
pact to always remain safe in their world as they went about their day-to-day business.
Unfortunately, for
the two girls, this just didn’t pan out the way they both thought it would when
they accepted a cab ride and then found themselves being held captive by a
perverted, sadistic, torturer who held them chained in a cellar for three long
years. There were other girls down there
with them and the conditions were deplorable.
Struggling from
day-to-day was difficult at best and with no sunlight coming into the cellar
they were pale and sickly looking. The
chains that bound them were heavy and cumbersome and difficult to drag around
any time they needed or wanted to move zapping what little strength they
had. The torture they endured was
horrendous and I couldn’t imagine myself enduring what they had to on a daily
basis.
Now ten years
later, Jack, their torturer is coming up for parole and Sarah wants to make
sure he doesn’t get out so sets out on a journey to rally the other people
involved in the hope of garnering enough information to give to the parole
board to force them to keep Jack in prison.
What Sarah and the others go through will have your heart racing and
pounding with each turn of the page.
Koethi Zan set out
to pen a ‘thriller’ with her debut novel The
Never List and she accomplished her goal very well. I’ll definitely be keeping this as part of my
permanent library collection to be read again.
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