Still Missing

Truth is stranger than fiction but sometimes fiction can seem like truth if the writer has done his/her homework and has enough creative talent to pull it off. STILL MISSING by Chevy Stevens is such a novel. Stevens takes you into Annies situation and makes it feel real. I felt like I was in her skin as she went through all the phases of her abduction from first meeting and back home again. This is not a book for enjoyment. There are some pretty heavy scenes so if you are a bit squeamish or dont care for intense situations in your novels skip this book. STILL MISSING will make you think about the story and its outcome and make you wonder about yourself and what you would do in the same situation. Annie is not a very likable protagonist but considering her life experience she has a right to be cynical, nontrusting and has built so many walls around herself as she turns her back on her family and friends. Mayer this is why some people dont like the book because the heroine is not the usual sweet, good person you want to cheer for but is not a very pleasant sort of person. makes me wonder if she was really the same selfabsorbed person before the abduction or if that developed as a reaction to being home again. This book has some amazing twists that will make your jaw drop! I am not going to give anything away but I sure didnt see that one coming! : If I had one criticism it is that the novel seemed to end abruptly and I wonder if Stevens has a plan to do a sequel because there are a lot of threads left hanging. There is no happy ending to a story like this and that might make some readers uncomfortable. STILL MISSING is Stevens first novel so hopefully she isnt a flash in the pan but will create stories that are just as eyeopening and will have us thinking about the story long after we have finished and closed their covers!

Holy moly this book is so good in all the baddest ways! I feel kinda guilty for enjoying something so dark but I have to give it five stars because, EMOTIONS. The first half of the book follows Annie who's been kidnapped by The Freak and forced to live in a cabin on the mountains. The things she goe......more

I am not sure why I went into reading STILL MISSING with such low expectations but I did, and boy was I pleasantly surprised! I had this book on my "to read list" for awhile, and decided to finally read it after getting a recommendation from one of my Goodreads friends (Thank you Rita). I didn't real......more

This is a hard book to recommend because it doesn't fit nicely into any category, some people will gush about it and others will hate it. There are many good bits that are weakened by a touch of poor writing, often weighed down by cliched phrases and the author's tendency to underestimate the reader......more

If my mother were Lorraine O’Sullivan, I’d have shot her self-absorbed ass and fed her decomposing corpse to the coyotes, while whistling the theme to Deliverance through my missing two front teeth. Which would have presented me with one of two scenarios: either I would have been locked up so fast I......more

My word. It was my youngest daughter Jamie that brought this one into the house, a mass market paperback with a badly bruised cover. I picked it up one morning on my way out to the porch to enjoy the fall air and a cuppa. Well you know how it goes, I read the first couple of pages, or at least that w......more