The Keeping
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
High school senior Sierra Hart wakes up in a bomb shelter with no idea how or why she is there. She has been provided food, water, and essentials to survive. Through Sierra’s abduction journals, police reports, her parents, boyfriend’s and friend’s perspectives, you will slip into each of their shoes to try and understand what happened to Sierra. Everybody has secrets they’ve kept and reasons to keep them. If it happened to you, could you rise above for love? Gone Girl meets Gossip Girl.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Ransom's clunky debut, teenager Sierra Hart wakes up in a small, locked room with absolutely no recollection of how she got there. What follows is an investigative journey through her family history and current romantic entanglements. Sierra's life in Laketown, N.Y., is revealed through a detailed diary she keeps while imprisoned and the narratives of those closest to her: her parents, Patrick and Dr. Laura Hart; her ex-boyfriend, Dave Braun; and the new boy in her life, Gavin Ross. Unfortunately, not all of the narratives serve the purpose of moving the story forward, and the immense amount of backstory negates the suspense. Awkward prose doesn't help ("The water pooled in a small, deep, divot as the fear exploded up her throat, across her tongue and out of her mouth in a desperate shrill wail that fell flat, in the trapped air"). (BookLife)
