Above by Isla Morley
★ ★ 

Blythe has been kidnapped and wakes up in an old missile silo. The man who kidnaps her, a survivalist, has these crazy theories that the world is about to end and has saved Blythe to spare her the sure disaster of the apocalypse. Blythe fights to escape her prison to no avail. Her captor thinks that he is saving and only reports ruin from is visits to the surface. Blythe struggles to keep her sanity and struggles to raise the child she conceives and gives birth to in captivity. She tries to forget the world above so the child never realizes the reality of their situation. Eventually, a chance at freedom changes everything Blythe knew to be true.

I read a lot of kidnapping books. I really do. There’s something about watching these amazing characters (both real and fictional) overcome a horrifying experience and remain strong and determined to be free that really speaks to me. I’d yet to read a kidnapping book that I was disappointed with. Then I read Above. Now I really enjoyed the book at first. I loved the twist that Blythe’s captor was a survivalist. It was interesting that it was a different reason than the one’s I usually saw in books like this that led to Blythe’s capture. But things quickly went downhill near the end . It’s hard to say more without spoiling it. I just didn’t like the turn the book took. I respect that Isla Morley tried to do something different. Sometimes though, it pays off to stick with the norm.