A woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this claustrophobic thriller in the tradition of Misery and Room.
On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago. When she discovers she is pregnant, she resolves to protect her child no matter the cost, and starts to meticulously plan her escape. But when another woman is brought into the fold on the farm, her plans go awry. Can she save herself, her child, and this innocent woman at the same time? Or is she doomed to spend the remainder of her life captive on this farm?
Intense, dark, and utterly gripping The Last Thing to Burn is a breathtaking thriller from an author to watch.
I have been following some Instagram accounts that talks about best thrillers to read and this book was one of them. I bought this book, as the person mentioned this book was really a good thriller. Turns out it is indeed a page turning thriller.
A woman is held as a captive in some remote farm in the UK. No one knows how the woman got into UK and the man has been keeping her as a captive by making her do house chores and spending time with her. The woman is called Jane but Jane is not her name. As the story progresses, the woman tells about her harrowing experiences–the birth of her daughter, a woman who is being imprisoned in the cellar, her sister’s letters to her and how she plans to someday escape from this hell.
This was a page turner. From the first chapter, I was really hooked into the story. The details of how the woman was held as a captive including when she attempted to run away and the punishment inflicted on her was at best truly disturbing to read. You really vouch for the woman that you really hope she would someday make out of this place. The descriptions and details written in this book is all too realistic in my opinion. In my opinion, this was more like a literary fiction than a thriller and is well written. Only thing is I wish I know the backstory of Thanh, how she ended up becoming Lenny’s captive. It is also disturbing that even though the book is entirely fiction, human trafficking still takes place around the world.
If you have read Emma Donahue’s Room, then try reading this book as this is a bit similar except this book involves the story of a Vietnamese girl being held captive. Worth five stars.
Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands, living in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. He was a bookish, daydreaming kid who found comfort in stories and nature (and he still does). After studying Law at the LSE, and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden. He built a wooden house in a boggy clearing at the centre of a vast elk forest, and it’s from this base that he compulsively reads and writes. He is the author of Dark Pines. (
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