Book Review | ARC Review | The Prisoner by B.A. Paris

Amelie loses her mother when she is young and then loses her father when she is 17. She ends up living in the streets in London, trying to get by on nothing. Amelie meets Caroline, a rich divorcee, at a coffee shop and ends up moving in with her and helping with chores and cooking. Things seem to start coming together for her until she needs Ned. He is a very wealthy executive that Amelie ends up marrying on a spur of the moment trip to Las Vegas. He has turned it into a business proposition – she gets paid, he appears married to spite his father.  Tensions build between them when Amelie finds out some terrible things about her now-husband. They both end up getting kidnapped and held captive. Who kidnapped them? Why? What are they planning to do with them?

The book was split into two parts – the first alternated between the kidnapping and the past leading up to it. The second part focused more on the present and tidying up all the loose ends. 

The book had lots of short chapters (sometimes almost too short to get enough detail).  I found it to be a little slow to start and all of the descriptions of the days passing while she was kidnapped seemed to blend together. I did find the backstory interesting and I do love a nicely tied up ending. 

This is probably my least favorite book by B.A. Paris. I had high hopes for it since I really liked her previous books that I have read, but still worth a read.