Synopsis
First there was darkness… A young woman wakes up to find herself in the dark. She does not know how she got there; she does not know why she is there. She feels for a light switch, thinking the light heals all pain. Then there was light. Death is only an instant. What light reveals to her is way past death itself. Realization sets in, and it is made clear that escape is out of the question. For a puzzling madman holds her captive, her freedom at the palm of his hand. Now there is only a decision. He will kill her only if she exhibits signs of a certain syndrome, and as of now there are only two different ways of ending this madman’s reign: Kill him or stay alive. Staying alive requires tolerance to pain and despair. It asks of her a precise resistance to a syndrome-one she knows nothing about. If she doesn’t die, no one else has to. Killing him vanquishes all hopes of freedom, for the key will die with him. Killing him will make her the one monster she swore she would never be: The same beast responsible for building a definite barrier on the line that divides her past from present to possible future-one who has silenced her past forever.
My Thoughts
This story is a twisted tale of a man, a serial killer who keeps a young woman hostage in his mansion to prove to himself that Stockholm syndrome is real.This is a short but very good read, especially for such a young writer. It is a psychological thriller that deals with a lot of mind games and mans desire to test a theory or two about human nature.
Some parts of the book were overly descriptive but did not take away from the story nor did it add to it. I felt the ending of the book was a little flat but at the same time it left me wanting to read more, to know more about this odd man, the killer. It leaves much to the imagination at the end.
I highly recommend this book, the positives outweigh any negatives and for being 16 years old at the time she wrote this, I do believe she has a great future ahead of her writing books!
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