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Well, the subject for Little Girl Lost by Jane Blythe is sure to get emotions in an uproar. I mean, how degraded must someone be to kidnap, torture, rape and sell a child? I love walking the dark side with my characters and Jane Blythe makes that so easy to do.
MY REVIEW
I have just finished reading Jane Blythe’s novel, Dead or Alive and she left me with a tease that I had to follow up…immediately, so I began reading Little Girl Lost. I’m happy I didn’t wait, because everything I wanted to know about Tessa is now reveals…at least I think so. She is such a private person, holding tightly to her secrets, it is hard to know for sure.
Just ask Detective Parker Bell. Her loves her and made her his wife, yet he knows there are many secrets she has buried from her tragic past. After all, she has walked in these children’s footsteps and, even though she managed to escape with her life, survivor’s guilt hounds her every breath.
“You know you don’t have to do everything yourself all the time, Tessa.”
“It’s okay to let people help you sometimes.”
It is almost impossible to put down a Jane Blythe thriller because she fills her novels with emotion provoking content, tremendous amounts of tension making me feel the urgency of her characters and biting suspense as I wonder who will survive. The recurring characters have had more than their share of misfortune and hardship, but does that stop Jane Blythe from piling on more? OH NO. BUT, I love it. Does that make me as twisted as some of her characters? I hope not. After all, you have to go into their minds to be able to do what’s necessary, whether it’s taking them down or just trying to get into their head.
I have been with Tessa since the beginning and I understand her difficulty in believing and trusting, letting others into her world. She has been betrayed, used, tortured and abused, and I understand her need to keep her secrets. Tessa has her sweet, tender, vulnerable moments, but if I am ever in need of a kickass savior, I would love to have her at my side. She will sacrifice everything to save others.
There are plenty of villains to go around, but John Doe…I see him and I see why he does what he does, but I have no forgiveness for the loss of an innocent child. I do love a villain that creates ambivalent emotions and Jane Blythe does that with John Doe. The rest…do unto others…
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Little Girl Lost by Jane Blythe.
GOODREADS BLURB
If she can’t give up her secrets she’ll lose everything.
After crashing their car in the woods Detective Parker Bell and his wife Tessa stumble upon a blood covered child and find themselves thrown headfirst into a nightmare eerily familiar to the one Tessa found herself in sixteen years ago.
Forced to confront a past she would rather forget, every decision Tessa makes could cost her everything she has grown to love. Faced with several missing children cases he knows are related to Tessa’s childhood nightmare, Parker must decide how hard to push his wife to get the answers he wants, and if he is even ready to face the truth of what happened to Tessa when she was kidnapped as a child.
↝ Trigger warning – themes of sexual assault ↜
ABOUT JANE BLYTHE
Jane has loved reading and writing since she can remember. She writes dark and disturbing crime/mystery/suspense with some romance thrown in because, well, who doesn’t love romance? She has one completed series, Detective Parker Bell, and one new series, Count to Ten.
When she’s not writing Jane loves to read, bake, go to the beach, ski, horse ride, and watch Disney movies. She has a black belt in Taekwondo, and a 200+ collection of teddy bears. She has the world’s two most sweet and pretty Dalmatians, Ivory and Pearl. Oh, and she also enjoys spending time with family and friends!
MY REVIEWS FOR JANE BLYTHE’S BOOKS
Both books sound good, but the subject matter is so dark. Tessa sounds like an awesome character. I’m already cheering her on.
Tessa is an awesome character and even though this is a detective parker bell series, i have always gravitated to her.
I think this is such a hard topic to read about. However, the series does sound really good.
great series and i am sad it is over with. it is a tough topic, but i like books that get my emotions in an uproar and let me vent at the villains
Hurrah for a five star review!
jane has the ability to blow my mind. LOL
Whilst I so admire authors who can truly get into the minds of such people I have to admit the older I get the less inclined I am to read a book with such characters. That said, never say never I do occasionally come across such a book that I do want to read and this has got some pretty impressive reviews.
glad to see that you checked it out. i am sooooo happy i found jane blythe and always wait for the next book with baited breath.
Five stars huh? Well that’s high praise!
jane is a fantastic writer and i love that she takes me to a very dark place in little girl lost. her novels often deal with hard subjects to read about
This sounds really good, Sherry! I am so glad you enjoyed it!
thanks so much carole
She is at the top of my author list that I need to catch up on, Sherry!
glad to hear it laura
I have found that since becoming a mom I can not longer stomach even fictional accounts of child abuse/assault/trafficking. I used to watch Law and Order: SVU alllll the time, I owned the first 12 season on DVD and could binge big-time. But the birth of my daughter put the brakes on that, I just could not handle it anymore. It timed just right with Stabler (he and Benson were the best team ever and him leaving was awful) leaving the show, and I have not watched an episode since.
i can understand. books that get my emotions in an uproar are at the top of my list and i do tend to walk on the dark side a lot in my reading. i am always trying to figure out the why…which is impossible, because there is something seriously wrong with these people.
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