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Someone took your daughter. And nobody believes you...
Keep Her Close by Erik Therme is a story about every parents worst nightmare, losing your child.
When Ally goes missing when she is fifteen, who do you believe? Where has she gone? Did someone take her? So many questions, so little time. While I enjoyed this story well enough it wasn't my favorite. The ending was eccentric and a little bizarre.
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Pub Date: 05 Dec 2018
This was slow getting started but it picked up speed and delivered a punch at the end. Dan and Holly find an abandoned 3-4 year old child one evening and after a year with no one claiming her, they adopt her.
Ally, now a high graduate longs to find her biological family and her friend Cal tries to help. Many dominoes fall before the novel wraps it. I appreciate the publisher and NetGalley allowing me to be an early reader in exchange for my fair and honest review.
Much ado about nothing. Parents spend a few days searching for daughter who went out but is not responding to messages, I'm shortening the plot, but basically it's unrealistic and doesn't have much substance. If you are desperate for something to read to pass the time, the.n this okay novel should fit the bill. However, can't really recommend it.
2/5
Keep Her Close should be renamed as Taken: Keep Her Close. Or something similar.
Couple Dan and Holly found a three year old Ally abandoned and after a long process adopted her. Fifteen years later, Dan and Holly had a divorce, Holly remarried, Ally moved out from her parents' houses and suddenly received a letter from her real father. Ally wanted to meet the sender, but Dan disagreed. And one day, Ally disappeared.
I love me a mystery/thriller/whodunit/secrets fiction, but this book isn't it. It started out so good too so imagine my disappointment when it turned into a race with time thing. Then again, it's all in the mater of opinion.
I like how Dan and Holly would give a good home for Ally. I rooted for them. Dan, fifteen years later, was a disappointing character with a motto of something along the line of 'hit now talk later'. While Holly was just kinda... there.
Many unnecessary characters that I didn't bother to get to know. What's up with Cal and Ellie's convo about Ally's 'real character'? It didn't add anything to the story. It could be if there's some mystery that needs to be revealed (ex: Ally is secretly evil or something), but there wasn't any.
Also, the usage of 'mentally disorder people do bad/crime things because they're mental' needs to stop asap.
Keep Her Close by Erik Therme is a fast paced thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat. I read in in one day as I did not want to put it down.
Dan and Holly find a three year old child abandoned in a parking lot. After the authorities fail to find her parents Dan and Holly adopt her and bring her up as their daughter.
Fifteen years later their daughter now called Ally has left home to start college.
She has always wondered about her birth family and when she receives a letter from a man claiming to be her birth father she sees this as the chance to find out why she was abandoned. Her adoptive parents warn her not to do this but Ally goes to meet this man and then she disappears.
Her adoptive parents are now frantic and will do anything to find their daughter.
I found that the pace of this book grew more and more frantic and the story more suspenseful as it neared the end.
I would like to thank NetGalley and Bookouture for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.
I found this book difficult to read and skipped from about 30% to the ending. Just too much character viewpoint switching and convoluted plot line to get into it. Once you get to the ending it was pretty bizarre what had actually happened also.
This was a very quick read and the storyline set over just one day, the plot was interesting but somehow I just failed to connect with the characters. especially the father who I found to be very annoying. The book held my interest but at time seemed a little bit too contrived but maybe that was just me as I read a lot of thrillers. All in all the book was a solid 3 stars and others many enjoy it more than I did. My thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for the chance to read the ARC.
Highly unbelievable and just all over the place.
Ally is probably one of the most gullible characters I have ever read about. The whole story could easily have been prevented.
I finished this book because I am not a quitter, but I did not enjoy it at all.