Still Missing

I liked part of this book, mostly the part about this woman's abduction and her will to survive with a crazy and mean captor. I also liked the premise of her telling the story to her therapist (some of my best friends are therapists). But I felt a bit cheated once the story rounded the bend ( I don't want to give away the plot here...) and began to include others. Somehow I think the neatly crafted plot became a bit unlikely and somehow lost it's cohesion. So although I wanted to give more stars, I just couldn't. However, I'm still glad I purchased this and listened all the way through. I wasn't bothered by the language choices, I felt it appropriate in context.

Chevy Stevens has been widely praised for this, her first book. The praise is justified. The narrator also does a fine job. However, what they both do is to portray a singularly horrible event which is very hard to hear. The protagonist, Anne, is kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured by an over-the-top control freak, a truly loony and scary psychopath who controls Anne's every breath. The atmosphere is so claustrophobic and so frightening that the book is not for the squeamish, and I find myself to be one of those, a little surprisingly to me. I love a good murder mystery, but this is not that. The details are authoritative and the story so well told that it turns your stomach. If you can stand the heat, fine, but for the rest of us, better that we stay out of this particular kitchen.

This was my first "book on tape". I downloaded this book to my IPOD the night before a family vacation. I thought as I was downloading..."how will I ever get into a book that someone else is reading aloud to me??" I couldn't turn off my IPOD. I found myself wanting to just sit and listen to find out what happened next! I loved the story line and will be looking for similar books by the same author and/or narrator! Great first time experience!!

This audiobook absolutely hooked me in & kept me interested all the way through. The twists & turns were completely unanticipated and so well done for a first time author! I would have thought she'd written many, many suspenseful books after reading this one. The delivery was also very creative, being told in therapy sessions...very nice. The narrator was excellent, too. I just can't say enough about this book-it stayed with me for days!

Once you are plugged in to this one, you can't get unplugged...and once you are done, you hope for more, if not from Annie, at least from this great new author.

I hope the author doesn't take long to send out another book! I couldn't stop listening! The 'sessions' is a great, unique way to tell this story.

Very much enjoyed this book! I listen while I commute and clean house....bet I've got the cleanest house on the block since I did not want to stop listening to the book. Hope this author is able to write another book this good.

Excellent reader. Grizzly story, but I was on the edge of my seat the entire book.

I certainly hope the author didn't get this story from first-hand experience! What a thriller. Without giving anything away, this is one creepy story. Chevy wrote a very well thought-out tale of personal tragedy, psychological torment and an unbelievable, fantastic ending.

Hope this isn't a one-hit wonder, because I'm really looking forward to the next story from this author.

Couldn't stop listening, it was a great thriller. One word of caution: terrible language! F-word throughout the whole book! Too bad. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who is sensitive to that. (Also, it describes a rape in detail.)