She’s been kidnapped, put in car trunk at the beginning of the story and by moving back and forth between her captivated time and PTSD time (present time), we learn more about her traumatic experience. Even a heartless person could be affected from what she’s been through.

Jane’s emotional, heart wrenching, terrifying survival journey was remarkably told. The one thing I really like about the books make your emotions all over the place as they shake you to the core and help you connect with other lives.įor so long a book didn’t function as a sledgehammer to smash my heart into million tiny pieces as like this book did to me. How far will I have to go to uncover the truth of what happened-and will it break me forever?įive I found a new author who is gifted, brilliant and develops amazing characters, I couldn’t put down this book, disconnected with outside world, stayed focused, jumped up and down at some parts and created a new term as “three dimensional reading”, because every suffering, every traumatic experience, every scared moments, every fight of Jane truly resonated with me stars!!! I don’t believe he wasn’t really there and I’m determined to find him. But I distinctly remember the screams, holding hands with Mason through a hole in my wall, and sharing a chocolate bar.

When I ask the detectives assigned to my case about Mason, I get an answer I don’t believe-that there were no traces of any other kidnapped kids. So I start my own form of therapy-but writing about my experience awakens uncomfortable memories, ones that should’ve stayed buried. Therapists are clueless and condescending. But they don’t understand that dining out and shopping trips can’t heal what’s broken inside me. Now that I’m home, my parents and friends want everything to be like it was before I left. But when that day finally came, I had to leave him behind. My only solace was Mason-one of the other kidnapped teens-and our pact to one day escape together. The last time I saw the face of my abductor was when he dragged me fighting from the trunk of his car. I received meals, laundered clothes, and toiletries through a cat door, never knowing if it was day or night. Locked in a room with a bed, refrigerator, and adjoining bathroom, I was instructed to eat, bathe, and behave. Bestselling author Laurie Faria Stolarz’s thrilling novel Jane Anonymous is a revelatory confessional of a seventeen-year-old girl’s fight to escape a kidnapper-and her struggles to connect with loved ones and a life that no longer exists.

Jane anonymous by laurie faria stolarz