See the thing with discovering a new-found affection with a particular genre, every book is just as awesome as the last. Moreover, for a sloth reader like me, to finish a book in 4 days just tells you this is, indeed, such a compelling read that for some of you will probably breeze through in one sitting.

So the storyline follows a 6-year-old girl that was kidnapped on her way to a friend's house for a play date. Her family is expectedly devastated but seems to have managed to live through their loss, until that one faithful day, 12 years after, Jenny Kristal miraculously came back.

I really love the premise of the story and enjoyed reading it. It's the kind of book you'll certainly latch onto because you've just got to find out how it ends. I love how the protagonist was redeemed towards the end coz' to be honest, despite of what she has gone through, I had a bit of a hard time liking her character initially for some reason. The last sentence in the book, albeit short and sweet, almost made me shed a tear. On the other hand, trigger warnings of child abuse and rape remain to be an excruciating theme for me to fathom.

Definitely worth squeezing in your summer reading pile for an awesome thriller read or to just simply break a slump perhaps.

*4.25*