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A review by sim_96
Home by Karen Dionne
3.0
Helena knows many things, she has two daughter's she loves, a husband she loves, a dog and a happy life. She makes her living from making jams and other condiments, learned from a life long gone. But what she doesn't know is that her father is coming for her. The same father who kidnapped her mother when she was sixteen and held her captive for decades in a cabin in the wilderness where she gave birth to Helena.
This story is told in two ways, Helena growing up under the shadow of her father, adoring him and seeing nothing he does is wrong. We also have present Helena who now has to find her father and bring him back to prison or risk losing her family.
What I liked about this book was that the reader has the same experiences as Helena, we see the good of her father, glancing over the bad. We obviously start to get an inkling of what is going on and how bad the situation is but it's not until the pivotal scenes in the novel that Helena starts to realise that as well.
The story is different to any other I have read, using the author's own experiences in the wilderness to bring a real life dimension to the story, it makes you want to forget about all the drama and just learn about all the interesting things she knows.
All that being said, I didn't love this book. It dragged in places, it went too fast in others and sometimes you just got a little too frustrated to continue on. I was expecting more of a thriller but this story was kind of bland and glossed over the terrifying parts.
This story is told in two ways, Helena growing up under the shadow of her father, adoring him and seeing nothing he does is wrong. We also have present Helena who now has to find her father and bring him back to prison or risk losing her family.
What I liked about this book was that the reader has the same experiences as Helena, we see the good of her father, glancing over the bad. We obviously start to get an inkling of what is going on and how bad the situation is but it's not until the pivotal scenes in the novel that Helena starts to realise that as well.
The story is different to any other I have read, using the author's own experiences in the wilderness to bring a real life dimension to the story, it makes you want to forget about all the drama and just learn about all the interesting things she knows.
All that being said, I didn't love this book. It dragged in places, it went too fast in others and sometimes you just got a little too frustrated to continue on. I was expecting more of a thriller but this story was kind of bland and glossed over the terrifying parts.