S.K. Barnett – Safe

‘Safe’ is a thriller we all want to read, but no one wants it to happen to them. A six-year-old child missing from home, never to be seen again until the day, 12 years later she walks into a police station. Jenny was taken from her family and they have searched everywhere, done everything to find her. Her elder brother thinks she is dead and he has sort if come to terms with that. Jenny returns and it starts a chain of events no one could predict.

This story is a powerful and heart wrenching one. The author deals with child abuse very cautiously, and it still brought the feelings of anger, sadness and even tears as I know all too well this happens too often in our world. The twists and turns in Jenny and her family’s lives came thick and fast. Her parents are jubilant she is home but her brother is a different story. As events happen and time goes on it is apparent something isn’t right but what is it? We are made to wait until the last pages to discover the secrets everyone are keeping.

A hard read at times, tense, disturbing and harrowing but also hypnotic in a way, as you just need to keep reading to find out what’s going to happen. Thanks to Random Things Tours, Netgalley and Arrow Publishing for allowing me a copy of the book to take part in this blog tour.