The Tutor

De: K. Larsen

Narrado por: Pam Tierney

After a party gone wrong and in desperate need of money for the fall semester of college, 20-year-old Nora Robertson needs to escape her hometown. She accepts a summer-long live-in tutoring job for a handsome man and his little sister at a secluded home deep in the mountains. There is no running water. No electricity. No Internet or cell service. When her tutoring job ends, she's hit with a brutal turn of events...she's not permitted to leave.

After months in captivity, she makes a harrowing escape with her student that ends in a car accident on a desolate road. When Nora comes to, her student is missing. In a desperate attempt to find the girl, Nora will have to recount her time held captive. The good and the bad. Can Nora and the authorities work together to find the man who took her? Will they rescue the girl Nora tried to save?

©2017 K. Larsen (P)2017 K. Larsen

Good story but

If you are looking for a romantic Stockholm syndrome book, this is not it. More of a thriller than romance.
The story definitely kept my interest but wasn't exactly what I was expecting.

Romance. . .

This was a sick romance if it was one at all. Granted it began all flirty and such but then takes a deep dive into cruelty and manipulation. The author, K. Larson, is a wonderful writer as the story unfolds seamlessly.

Emotional

Hard to wrap my mind around this one. So many conflicting emotions
during the entire story. It gets better as it goes along. Being happy and sad about the ending. Just kind of shocked at how it ended. I don’t know how I wanted it to end exactly but it goes back to conflicting emotions again...

Issues with the audio editing

This was not at all what I expected. Or wanted.
What I wanted was a Stockholm syndrome romance. What I got was just Stockholm Syndrome, not a romance. This is more thriller, which could be an okay thing, but I didn't find it that exciting. I never got that tingle at the base of my spine that had me on the edge of my seat. There were too many points of view, and I felt like not all of them were even needed. If you are going to have that many narrators, at least make them necessary to the story. And the back and forth time jumps didn't help the flow either. But as far as thrillers go, it was an okay read.

I tried to do the story by my Audible audiobook, but the chapters were out of order and skipping sections and going back to scenes already done. I finally had to use Whispersync and listen via the ebook, just to be able to understand the story. If I were someone who did returns, this is one that I would do, not just because I didn't enjoy the story, but because there seems to be something wrong with the audio editing.

Never considered Stockholm Syndrome romantic...

Frankly I’m considering returning this audio book. The only reason I finished it is because I had to know whether or not “The Tutor” was taught a harsh lesson in the end. I’ll just say that the violence, abuse and subsequent mind control suffered by the main character was far too much for me to understand how it could be romanticized— even by someone as young as her. This is also the first time that the narrator actually took away from the story for me. I had a difficult time separating some of the female characters, there were obvious stumbles and pauses- just one more reason for a refund.