The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne
(Format used for this read: Audiobook)
Book club pick this month….
Another psychological thriller which are not my fave….but if they say read it, I read it 🤣
We try to alternate types of books we read each month and I’m glad our next pick won’t be as creepy.
Here is a summary:
“The Marsh King’s Daughter is the mesmerizing tale of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and threatens to steal her future: her father.
Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature, and despite her father’s sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too…until she learned precisely how savage he could be.
More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn’t know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marsh. The police begin a manhunt, but Helena knows they don’t stand a chance. Knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh King–because only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter.”
If kinda scary books about kidnappers and psychological trauma are your thing, then you will probably enjoy this one.
They are not mine.
So I did not.
I listened to it on super speed while I cleaned all day today because I just wanted to get thru it and finish it.
I hate to say too many things in my reviews about suspenseful books because i don’t want to give away too much…
But I will say this book was multi layered and played with your head a bit.
Which I guess is what a “thriller” supposed to do.
There was violence too which I reallllly do not like.
And messing with kids in any sorta way is realllly not my thing.
So pretty much….
This book gets a nope from me.
Nuff said 👎