You Are Mine

Not much happened

Just want to start of by saying that my review is not to diminish her experience and her trauma, but I feel like I need to give an honest review for those who haven’t read it

When I first started to read the book, the hook caught my interest, but it was a real struggle to finish. Put bluntly nothing much happened. This book is over two hundred pages and describes how Isabel was in a bunker for six days, with her kidnapper Martin treating her like a live in girlfriend. Although he did hold her against her will and mentally manipulated her, he didn’t physically or sexually harm her while she was captive, yet she compared her kidnapper to josef fritzl which was far from the truth. And since there isn’t much to tell she fills in the space about her experience as an escort and how good it is

It was interesting reading the extracts from the interrogation by the police at the start of each chapter, and seeing a bit into how Martin operates and thinks. He was definitely very intellectual in the way that he could pinpoint her thoughts. It was also interesting reading how she got through her experience and her process of thinking eg. “I mustn’t eat too early and get so hungry by the time he gets back that I don’t have the energy to defend myself, but then I also need to make sure I don’t eat so late that I end up feeling stuffed or giving myself a stitch.” Although it is puzzling to me why she would wait for the man she was so deeply afraid of to drive her to the police station once she was free.

Not trying to say her experience isn’t worth being told, but I think you can just as easy watch videos on the case rather then spend time and money reading the book