Still Missing
by Chevy Stevens
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Book Reviews of Still Missing
Book Review: VERY DISTURBING YET VERY TOUCHING AND ENTHRALLING
Summary: 5 Stars
I am an English teacher, and let me just say that many papers went ungraded because of this book. I couldn' put it down! It was very disturbing because the unbelievably horrible things that happened to the main charcter happen more than we realize in real life. Told through flashback with sessions with her shrink, the novel slowly reveals what happened about Annie was abducted and held in a remote cabin in the mountains for nearly a year. You can't imagine what she went through until you read it. It will blow you away. Then, just when the story seems to be over and she finds her way back home to rebuild her life, she discovers that the nightmare is not over. This book is definitely for adults or older teens only. I actually thought it would give me nightmares. Why is it so disturbing? Because it can really happen.Book Review: Had To Stop Reading
Summary: 1 Stars
One of the worst books I have ever read. So bad, I had to stop reading a quarter of the way through. Repetitive, boring. Each chapter began the same way. Nothing new seemed to happen; the opposite of a page-turner. What characterizes a good thriller is it bears some relationship to reality; you could imagine it happening to someone, even you. The storyline is entirely unbelievable. Without giving away too much of the storyline, most chapters begin with a therapy session and then go back to what happened to her. The structure and substance of these sessions are silly, however. For example, they are essentially monologues: She demands that the therapist not ask her a single question! No mental health professional would tolerate that. Why not have her give these monologues in a support group or a journal she is writting?Book Review: terrible writing and boring
Summary: 1 Stars
Well, still missing from Still Missing, for me, is any sense of tension, drama or any reason to consider this book more than an overbearing, poorly written thriller attempt that turned out to be, of all things, boring!!
Yes, Annie is abducted ... poor Annie. But we know she is saved since she is telling us about her sessions with her shrink so no tension there. We read 1/2 the book waiting for something else to happen ... nothing, just repetition of the same basic things - she is treated terribly by the abductor and telling her shrink how messed up she is.
Nothing seems real or believable, the final plot twist especially so.
And to add to this, the writing is awkward and amateurish. Save your time and leave this book missing from your reading list.
Book Review: A psychological thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
Still Missing is the perfect title for this book, as the author delves into the detailed experience of a woman abducted for over a year. Ms Stevens cleverly uses the the structure of successive therapy sessions, only in the words of the woman, to describe what had happened to her. The scene keeps shifting from the time of the abduction and imprisonment to the woman's inability to get back her old life. As a clinical psychologist, I commend the author's depiction of post-traumatic-stress disorder. It is quite accurate, in that part of the woman's former sense of self gets left at the scene of the trauma.Reading this novel is like looking right into the eyes of a snake about to strike - terrifying. Bravo, Ms. Stevens for a novel that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat!Book Review: Still missing a good book to read...
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm feeling generous today so I decided on 3 stars. Most of the bad reviews cover what I thought when I finished the book.
The bad guy was your typical "Law and Order - SVU" bad guy. Nowhere near the Hannibal Lector that I expected. The main character, Annie did some things that just didn't make sense. I don't want to give too much away (not that it matters) but she CONTINUES to go jogging after a 2nd incident...WHAT? Her reaction to the whole thing wasn't what I'd expect.
I think there was a twist at the end but it didn't make any sense at all. If this were a movie, they could cover it in about 30 mins and you'd still walk away feeling like you wasted 25 of them.
The more I think about it, I'm giving it 2 stars.