STAINED is the story of Sarah
Meadows, a 17-year-old girl who is plucked off the street one afternoon after
school. Not only is she emotionally and sexually abused, starved and left alone
for days at a time, she spends every minute in hooded darkness.
To Sarah’s horror, she is not
her abuser’s first victim. He terrorizes her by occasionally dropping their
names, by drawing comparisons between Sarah and the others and by promising
Sarah that she too, will have her freedom—freedom from her pain of living with
a port-wine stained face. But he doesn't mean cosmetic surgery.
After a while, Sarah realizes
she must save herself. She has picked
and clawed at her only means of escape for months, crawling through just
moments before her abuser shows up. As her abuser hunts Sarah
down and closes in on her family, I felt anxious for Sarah’s safety. (Even
checking to see how many pages were left in the novel.)
I won’t spoil the ending, but
will end my review by saying Cheryl Rainfield is a talented writer who balances
the right amount of terror for the reader and the character with palpable and
authentic emotions in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
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