Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Jed Hawthorne.
But then, Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Jed?
With Behind Closed Doors, B.A. Paris takes the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she’ll hold you captive with this stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions.
The Prisoner
BA Paris
I have to start this review with a statement. I like B.A. Paris books. However, there are always exceptions.
The Prisoner. B.A. Paris’s latest release (out today) stars Amelie. Amelie has had a harder life than most. She meets a man; we’ll call him Jed. Jed is more mysterious than he should be and has his own agenda, which may not align with Amelie’s.
Jed proposes while on a whirlwind trip and Amelie feels she cannot refuse. Before you know it, she’s a married woman and things seem set.
Until one day Amelie is taken hostage and as the mystery behind her kidnapping comes into full view, she learns that everyone is worth a price, some more than others.
This book is full of characters like frogs in boiling water. Their predicament becomes more perilous as the book progresses to a fateful climax, Every. Single. Chapter.
It was daunting.
There was a sandwich quality to every chapter. The chapter starts off well then there is a whole middle piece to the chapter where not much happens and then it ends on a cliffhanger. Sending you off to another POV.
This book was built for skimming. However, I had an audiobook copy. So, there I listened. Please don’t make the same mistake I did.
I finished it in just a couple of sittings. It would’ve been one if not for unnecessary and repetitive information. This book is 300 pages, it could have easily been cut down to at least 250.
This is not where I would start with Paris and I feel her loyal fans will be the ones that like it the most. A bit of a disappointment for me.
Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for the advanced copy!
Out Today!
THE PRISONER…⭐️⭐️
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