Book #14

Eight Days in Darkness by Angela Roegner and Anita Wooldridge

415 pages

 

 

Wow! An enjoyable read, it was not -- at times I was near tears, or near throwing up at the awful things Anita had to endure after being captured in broad daylight in her small Kokomo, Indiana suburb in the late '90s. She was taken by an acquaintance to Wisconsin where she was trapped, slept in a locked metal box and continually raped for eight days before being captured by a team of Indiana and Wisconsin police.

 

However, this read like a crime novel, and sometimes I had to stop and remind myself all of this was real. A lot of the reminders of "realness" came to me in the form of Indiana lingo -- key players in the story graduated from colleges I am very familiar with, and one at-the-time suspect's alibi was that he went to see a movie at the Castleton Mall ... which is literally about four miles from my apartment and the movie theater I frequent most often.

 

It went back and forth between Anita trapped in her hell hole to the police force desperately trying to find clues and leads on Anita's whereabouts. The result was a very complete crime story, one that remained hopeful.

 

This one will stick with me for a long, long time. Now, to read something light and pleasant!  

 

Next up: Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham