The Intruder

Not the normal Frieda book. Still good but took a little to get me started/keep me going.

Casey is a dumbass

“I had previously imagined that when [the lights went out], I would be able to curl up in my bed with one of my paperbacks, reading by the light of my Itty Bitty book light until I drifted off. Instead, I am sitting in the kitchen of my house, alone with a girl who I am 99 percent sure has killed or at least mortally wounded somebody in the last twenty-four hours, and she’s feeling cornered, and we are sitting in pitch-blackness, the wind screaming through the cracks at the windows.” “A girl named Eleanor with red hair and freckles and who was clearly abused, approximately middle school age, showed up at my cabin, threatened me, tied me up, and now she’s gone…But now I realize that my house wasn’t the destination at all. The final destination is another house, just half a mile away from here…Eleanor was never looking for me. She drew a confusing map and ended up here…But he was the one she was looking for. He’s the one she intends to torture. To kill.” “When someone deserves bad things…it’s sometimes up to you to dispense justice. My father taught me a lot of things over the years. But this is one piece of wisdom I will never forget…I have learned a lot of things in my life, including the difference between sedimentary and igneous rocks, but this is the first thing I have ever learned that I am certain will be extremely useful. Now, I know how to free myself.”

Great face-paced story, I couldn't put it down once I started.

This book was meh. I mean it wasn’t even a page turner. It took me twice as long to finish cause I wasn’t gripped by the story. There were no big twists and the ending was anticlimactic. I’m not sure what else to even say.