Author: R. H.
Herron
Synopsis: “Laurie
Ahmadi has worked as a 911 police dispatcher in her quiet Northern California
town for nearly two decades. She
considers the department her family; her husband, Omid, is its first Arab
American chief, and their teenaged daughter, Jojo, has grown up with the
force. So when Laurie catches a 911 call
and, to her horror, it’s Jojo, the whole department springs into action.
“Jojo,
drugged, disoriented, an in pain, doesn’t remember how she ended up at the home
of Kevin Leeds, a pro football player famous for his on-the-field activism and
his work with the CapB- “Citizens Against Police Brutality” – movement. She doesn’t know what happened to Kevin’s
friend and trainer, whose beaten corpse is also discovered in the house. And she has no idea where her best friend
Harper, who was with her earlier in the evening, could be.
“But when Jojo
begins to dive into Harper’s social media to look for clues to her whereabouts,
Jojo uncovers a shocking secret that turns everything she knew about Harper –
and the police department – on its head.
With everything they thought they could rely on in question, Laurie and
Jojo begin to realize that they can’t trust anyone to find Harper except
themselves… and time is running out.”
Review: You all know
I’m about mostly spoiler free reviews, and since this novel started off with a
bang and didn’t let up, this review will be short. Stolen Things is supremely well written, and
extremely hard to read. I’ll give you
the trigger warning that I didn’t get: this novel deals with the rape of
teenage girl. It’s disturbing, it’s creepy,
and it ultimately made me very uncomfortable; which is why you know it’s very
well written. I read the novel in about
3 hours. I was speed reading because I
just had to know what happened next. I
could absolutely have read it in 2 hours, but I had to keep taking breaks
because the subject matter made me so uncomfortable. If you decide to read Stolen Things make sure
you have a lot of uninterrupted reading time available to you, and things to do
during your reading breaks the will help you decompress (I cleaned and
cooked). This all said, I do highly
recommend Stolen Things. If a book made
me feel this uncomfortable you know it was good!
**I was provided a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**
Publisher: Dutton
If you like this book you may want to read:
Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson
Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag
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