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She lives in a small farm cottage, surrounded by vast, open fields. Everywhere she looks, there is space. But she is trapped. No one knows she is there. Visitors rarely come to the farm; if they do, she is never seen. THE AUTHOR: Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands, living in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. He was a bookish, daydreaming kid who found comfort in stories and nature (and he still does). After studying Law at the LSE, and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden. He built a wooden house in a boggy clearing at the centre of a vast elk forest, and it's from this base that he compulsively reads and writes. The epilogue... meh. It's the main reason this book isn't getting five stars. It felt a little too generic and easy after everything I'd read in the previous chapters. I was underwhelmed. Even still, this was an excellent story. In this chilling novel from bestselling author John Marrs, a young couple’s house hides terrible secrets—and not all of them are confined to the past.
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She lives in a small farm cottage, surrounded by vast, open fields. Everywhere she looks, there is space. But she is trapped. No one knows how she got to the UK: no one knows she is there. Visitors rarely come to the farm; if they do, she is never seen.There’s a lot to process here – a story to tell and lessons to heed. Towards the end of the novel there’s a comment by a character about the choice to live in small communities because anomalies are noticed, or people step in. Of course ironically it’s how people also get away with things under the noses of others… Dark, harrowing, powerful, taut, and terrifying, “The Last Thing to Burn” by Will Dean is an incredible character-driven suspense novel that is all-consuming. I thought I'd read the first couple chapters and then sleep, as I haven't been feeling the greatest and was pretty tired. Further, the first chapter's flowery prose sort of turned me off...soooo not what I was in the mood for. DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Atria Books, Atria/Emily Bestler Books, for providing a digital ARC of The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.
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I have read a few similar books with a similar premise of women being held captive. There was something about this book felt so different. I felt like I was trapped in the cabin with “Jane”.There are things beyond her control and one of these situations change her life in an instant. And here the pathway to survival narrows, so it is barely seen. Doug and I went to bed last night around 12:30, our normal bedtime when he has to work the following morning (late, I know, but we're night owls at heart). A woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this claustrophobic thriller in the tradition of Misery and Room. Big sigh!!! Just another abduction, imprisonment, control over women story marketed as a "claustrophobic thriller." Wait, hmm, Lenn has my attention with his claustrophobic, disturbing, controlling way over Jane, but did that created the tension, sense of dread, and fear needed to create a thrilling, chilling and exciting thriller? I was hoping to rave about “The Last Thing To Burn”.... which started promising when - at the very- beginning- a powerful excerpt included before chapter one by author Kim Thuy, Ru.
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