This book grabbed me from the very first page!! That prologue was a hit and I could not put this one down at all!! I loved that it was told from Then and Now chapters and these chapters didn't follow a pattern it was a few Then chapters than a few Now chapters. It helped weave this story about a girl who was kidnapped and then broke free from her captor.


So to start off let's unpack some of the issues I had with this one. There are really only three that I had. One was word choices it made me feel that this book was from the 50s but of course we didn't have cell phones then. And the other was that when Jane was kidnapped she talks about having a flashlight app. Which yes those do exist but phones past 2007 all had flashlights in them already. At least as far as I have searched and found. So it made no sense. The last issue I had was that towards the end of the title when Jane is finally coming to terms with what happened to her it felt very rushed. One second she's still having panic attacks then the next chapter she's coming to terms with the twist in this title and moving on with her life. PTSD doesn't work that fast. I would have liked to see this happen gradually throughout the Now chapters and you just don't really see that. The ending of the title felt like a light switched on and off and all of a sudden a wonderful therapist shows up and fixes everything. It felt very convenient.


Other than those three issues this was an amazing story. I think that the only thing that would have made this one even better would have had one page chapters from Mason's POV. It was very interesting in reading about Jane's spiral into madness and insanity. I think that it really very real and showed us how easy it really is to loose yourself. I don't really agree that this was a thriller it was more a psychological stalker story. I felt this way because although Jane was kidnapped she was never in any real danger. . The emotional turmoil that Jane and her family and friends go through felt very real and I really liked that we saw the turmoil that her family and friends went through as well as just Jane.

The twist in the book wasn't so much as obvious but it had that feeling that nothing was what it seemed to be. When the twist was revealed I wasn't so much as shocked that I was right about the twist, but one other twist I didn't see coming.

Overall, this book will not be for everyone. If you have trauma with this topics that this book covers. Then you might want to skip this one. However, if this is a book for you, what you will find is a fabulous story about a girl that never gave up. Even after she got away from her captor her thoughts were on finding help for the other two people that were taken.


Go Into This One Knowing: Kidnapping, Being Held Captive, No Rape, Dual Chapters of Now and Then, Emotional Manipulation, Self Harm (Not Suicide)