SEVEN DAYS TO SAVE HIM. In seven days, Maggie's son, Max, turns three. But she's not planning a party or buying presents or updating his baby book. She's dreading it. Because in her world, third birthdays are the days on which the unthinkable happens... she loses her child.
For the last twelve years Maggie has been imprisoned in a basement. Abducted aged fifteen, she gave birth to two sons before Max, and on their third birthdays her captor came and took them from her.
She cannot let it happen again. But she has no idea how to stop it. And the clock is ticking...
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[Suddenly it was so close]***
(HarperCollins, 10 October 2019, 429 pages, ebook, ARC from @HarperCollinsUK via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I really enjoyed this book almost as much as it gave me a case of the creeps. The book is an echo of The Room, a favourite from years ago. Both books have a similar premise but are quite different in the execution. The book opens in shocking, dramatic fashion and I knew I was going to enjoy myself. I enjoyed the fact you don't just get Maggie's story as she struggles to find a way to change her awful circumstances and keep her son, you also get to spend time with her family and see how her disappearance affected them. Her family don't know she was taken and she just vanished. You also get insight into the police officer investigating Maggie's disappearance. I really felt for her parents, watching Maggie's brother, James spiral further and further out of control. I found myself unable to turn away from this often harrowing book. I enjoyed the way the chapters moves back and forth from the present to Maggie's disappearance and subsequent years in captive. Seven Days is powerful and unforgettable.
