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This book was written on about a 3rd grade reading level. No character discriptions. No scene descriptions. This was such a disappointment. I cannot believe it has good reviews from other readers. The way it was written, all the characters come off sounding like half-wits. It could have been a decent story, if written for adults. The story was very predictable.
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Tracy B. Evans book, Fatal Kidnapping, is a refreshing new twist on the obvious mystery theme. Katie Stone is a young woman engaged to her soul mate when her world gets turned upside down. As the story unfolds the author mixes in a blend of diary-like flashbacks that show the macabre childhood Katie had. Poor Katie lost loved ones at an early age and no one believed her tales of being stalked. One week before her wedding day her life long stalker makes his felonious move. Just when the reader feels they can predict the outcome of this suspenseful novel a wicked twist is thrown in that will astound hearty mystery fans. Well done Tracy.
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Hi. My name is Linda. I am writing this review. It is about this book. The title of this book is Fatal Kidnapping. If you enjoy reading this review, you will enjoy this book. I look foward to writing more reviews. I hope you understand sarcasm. If you don't, then go ahead and but this book!
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Headstown is a small city. Including the children the population count is about thirteen hundred. This is where Katie Stone has lived all her life. As the story opens, Katie has disappeared. Her father, Jed, and her fiancé, Caleb Bass, are searching for her. No one has seen Katie since she left work to go meet Caleb for a dinner date. Her car is found abandoned in the parking lot of the local grocery store. The entire town pulls together and turns the area upside down searching for Katie to no avail. But on the third day, Sheriff Jake Day finds her in an old shed on the outskirts of town.
Once back in town, Katie begins telling her story. However, before she can tell Sheriff Day who had kidnapped and why, he needs to hear the entire story that led up to it. It all began when she was around ten-years-old.
*** The three days of Katie's disappearance and then being found only covers the first forty pages. A majority of the book is Katie's life from ages ten to twenty-two. I admit the girl had a rough life but I, as the reader, never felt a connection with the character of Katie.
The plot line and the unexpected twist at the end are brilliant! I never saw the twist coming. But near the beginning, as the search begins and up until Katie begins telling what happened to her, many things are repeated. The characters keep each other informed as they try to pin point exactly when Katie went missing, as well as during the search. Yet as the reader, I got tired of hearing the same thing over and over. This problem goes away once Katie begins telling her story. There are editing problems, but I managed to ignore most of them.
All-in-all, this is a decent debut novel for the author. I am not crazy about the writing style or the characters, but the plot is excellent. ***
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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This book was pretty much one of the worst I've read of its kind. Since it was all I had with me on a 4 hour airplane ride, I managed to get to the end, although I skipped pages of pointless drivel at a time.
The story started out as promising, but from the first page I found the writing style hamhanded and awkward. There were glaring editorial mistakes like "She was on the right tract," as just one example. A lot of attention was paid to rather pointless detail, and the characters were cartoonish stereotypes in many instances. The denouement was at once predictable and utterly inconsistent with what was presented earlier in the story. Too cute for its own good.
There are other decent books in this genre. I'd skip this one.
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