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Tarryn Fisher
Book ArchiveContemporarySuspenseFire
When reclusive novelist Senna Richards wakes up on her thirty-third birthday, everything has changed. Caged behind an electrical fence, locked in a house in the middle of the snow, Senna is left to decode the clues to find out why she was taken. If she wants her freedom, she has to take a close look at her past. But, her past has a heartbeat…and her kidnapper is nowhere to be found. With her survival hanging by a thread, Senna soon realizes this is a game. A dangerous one. Only the truth can set her free.
This is not your mama’s romance book. In fact, it’s not a romance book at all, unless you call “falling in love with pain and fear of the unknown” a romance.
Tarryn Fisher delivers a book that twists the literary knife deeper than you think it could go. She creates a visual space that is confusing, demonstrative, and set in an anti-love story. Twist after turn wind the characters through the wringer, and I don’t know if I’m meant to like them, but I feel for them. I felt so many fears, because Tarryn Fisher is a top-notch writer who means to make us feel. Mud Vein certainly made me feel and is highly recommended. [May 2014]