This book is frustrating. The full plot of the book only happens in about 20% of the book, the rest is filled with high school American football and Ellie's dramatic inner voice.

The book starts of well, telling us Ellie has clearly been kidnapped. It then jumps back six month and goes through her meeting Josh Thomas, the new school football star and quarterback and the start and progress of their relationship. The reader certainly learns a lot about football and fanatical parents.

The concept is brilliant, Ellie get's kidnapped and twenty years later the same happens to her daughter - coincidence? I think not. I just feel so much of the book was wasted on teenage drama that wasn't actually necessary for the reader to experience. And the interesting bits i.e. Ellie's capture, was very short lived and almost skipped over.

I read it so 3*, but not the thriller I thought this would be - most of the book reads more like a young adult genre.