The Prisoner by B.A. Paris

 

Hello, everyone! 

Today's blog is about The Prisoner, by B.A. Paris. This will be released on or around November 1, 2022.  

This book goes back and forth between the "Past" and the "Present" and eventually all turns into the present.  It take the reader into Amelie's life and her hard past.  She does what she can to overcome her obstacles and life finally seems to be on the way, when she makes a deal with Ned, (SIDE NOTE: My kindle edition has the husband all through the book listed as NED, while Goodreads and other readers are calling him Jed-go figure lol) a rich magazine owner. He also is rich via his family, but he has all sorts of secrets. Secrets that come out when Amelie is thrown into his world. All  she wanted to do was make a a life for herself but it just doesn't seem to be possible. 

A better synopsis from Goodreads: 

Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Jed Hawthorne.

But then, Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Jed?

Now for my two cents: I usually don't mind switching back between the past and the present in books, but I found myself a little bored with the parts where Amelie was in the room where she was held captive.  That was because you had to get to the "past" parts to get any of inkling of what was going on.  There was only so much a writer can do having someone describe a room in which they are locked. 

So, after awhile, it DID start moving but as the end came, I kind of felt underwhelmed.  B.A. Paris will probably remain one of my automatic read authors but this one was just too slow and for me, unsatisfying at the end.  Don't let that stop you, though.  Seems a lot of people have enjoyed it so far on Goodreads!  Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for this opportunity. No review was required.  What are you reading?