Still Missing
by Chevy Stevens
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Book Reviews of Still Missing
Book Review: Heart Stopping Debut!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Still Missing", Chevy Stevens debut novel will make your heart stop as no detail is overlooked. At each turn of the page, you'll find yourself clutching the book with white knuckles and struggling to comprehend the sickening and terror-filled moments as this realistic and horrifying tale unfolds.
With a career she loves, a caring boyfriend and indispensable best friend, Annie O'Sullivan's future looks bright. That is until the day of her abduction and the subsequent year she spends imprisoned by a lunatic. Her harrowing journey--told through a series of psychiatric sessions--is a powerful and painful account of her fight for sanity. Once home and forced to face the non-stop challenges of surviving, Annie can't control the obsession that builds as she seeks the truth behind her kidnapping.
A book that I truly couldn't put down, "Still Missing" is a frightening story that will leave a lasting effect.
Reviewed by Suspense Magazine
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Book Review: Incredible pacing in this mystery.
Summary: 4 Stars
What continues to come to mind about this book is the extraordinary pacing; it does not allow you to stop reading. Just as you sense a good breaking point is near, the author throws in a twist, surprise or revelation that makes you want to know more. The focus of the story is Annie, average young women who is abducted and held captive. The story is told through her voice as she talks to her psychiatrist. There are two threads that eventually converge. Though flashbacks, Annie reveals the events and circumstances of her abduction, the other thread shows the present day and the emotional scars she carries. Her survival is not a secret. What defines this book is her story; it's haunting, emotional and artfully crafted. This is an excellent choice for a book club that enjoys mysteries or anyone who likes a story with emotional pull. The descriptions of rape and sexual perversion in this book are graphic, not for the faint of heart or young reader. Wonderful debut novel.Book Review: Disturbingly brillant!
Summary: 5 Stars
I compare reading Still Missing to coming up on a horrific traffic accident, not wanting to look, but you can't help yourself. There were parts of this book that I was afraid to read because I knew it would cause me to have uncomfortable emotions (fear, anxiety, anger, etc.) that I have never experienced before (to my knowledge) while reading a work of fiction. Annie O'Sullivan is one tough broad!! Struggling to cope with the terror, betrayal, and searching for the parts of herself that are Still Missing makes Annie real. I am a Psych nurse and have to commend Ms. Stevens for portraying Annie realistically. I have worked with patients who have survived similar traumas and railed against everyone and everything trying to come to terms with the loss of themselves. Read this book, but be cautioned that it goes for the center of your psyche, it will make you question your faith in humanity, and leave you thinking about it for a long time afterwards.Book Review: Suspenseful
Summary: 4 Stars
Annie is a Real Estate Agent with a career on its way up until she's kidnapped at gunpoint during a house showing. She's held captive for over a year enduring rape with its debilitating physical and emotional abuse. Stevens gives us a fast paced plot with lots of twists especially from the eerie, sick villain. His actions and back story ring frighteningly real. The heroine's voice never falls into self pity which is refreshing but, for my taste, it was a little too tough. She does what she needs to do to survive however. I like how she tells her story through flash back sessions with her faceless, silent shrink. I'm keeping this review brief for fear of spoilers. I'm a mystery fan and Stevens gets high marks for that however there was something that didn't quite ring true about Annie for me and some of the plot devises felt like teases. If you want exciting reading Stevens provides it. She writes a great first novel.Book Review: This was so good, I didn't like it.
Summary: 5 Stars
We watch the news and follow the heartbreaking stories of abductions, but we never hear the details and follow the complicated aftermath of trying to move forward or past such a horrific experience.
From the first line of Chevy Steven's Still Missing, we know 32-year old Annie O'Sullivan is back from her abduction...and so starts the story of how it all happened in brutal and disturbing detail.
The chapters go back and forth between Annie retelling her story during discussions with her psychiatrist and trying to reconnect with life, family and friends. The chapters weave together seamlessly and do not disrupt the flow and pace of the book at all. As if the story of her abduction and return were not enough, the investigation following Annie's abduction will have you unable to put the book down - really.