This was a good one to read on vacation-exciting, but easy and quick. Like many thrillers, it opens with a familiar scene in which our protagonist is being held captive by a man. Ellie Patterson’s captor requires that she play a sick game to win her release in which she must say his name to release her husband who is also tied up in the same room. Each time she says the wrong name? Her husband loses a digit. For the faint of heart, it sounds more grisly than it reads as we are spared too many violent details. The reader is then taken back in Ellie’s life as she desparately tries to retrieve who her sick Rumplestilkin resembles the most. We learn about Ellie’s family and how it affected her coming of age and we also learn that her husband might not be exactly who he appears to be. This energetic story satisfies!
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