{"id":27528,"date":"2021-07-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=27528"},"modified":"2021-07-19T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:03:04","slug":"review-appetite-for-innocence-a-dark-psychological-thriller-by-lucinda-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=27528","title":{"rendered":"#REVIEW – Appetite For Innocence: A Dark Psychological Thriller by Lucinda Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Be careful what you post online. Your next check-in might lead him right to you…<\/strong>

A serial rapist is kidnapping teenage girls. But he\u2019s not interested in just any teenage girls\u2014only virgins. He hunts them by following their status updates and check-ins on social media. Once he\u2019s captured them, they\u2019re locked away in his sound-proof basement until they\u2019re groomed and ready. He throws them away like pieces of trash after he\u2019s stolen their innocence. Nobody escapes alive.

Until Ella.

Ella risks it all to escape, setting herself and the other girls free. But only Sarah\u2014the girl whose been captive the longest\u2014gets out with her. The girls are hospitalized and surrounded by FBI agents who will stop at nothing to find the man responsible. Ella and Sarah are the key to their investigation, but Sarah\u2019s hiding something and it isn\u2019t long before Ella discovers her nightmare is far from over.

Fans of\u00a0The Butterfly Garden<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Girl Before<\/em>\u00a0will devour\u00a0Appetite for Innocence<\/strong>

Warning: Contains sexual violence which may be a trigger for some readers.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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This book was insane. I kept trying to guess what was going to happen and how it would end because I knew that there was going to be a twist of some sort.
The book is written in both Ella\u2019s point of view along with Sarah\u2019s. We learn how Ella was taken by \u201cJohn\u201d and how Sarah was conditioned over the years. Both of their stories are tragic in the same way but also different. Sarah had been with John for four years, ever since she was 12 years old. So of course, it makes sense for him to have control over her in a much different way than he does with the other girls.
Parts of the book were quite frustrating but I also understood as well. I\u2019m not a mom but I know that if it had been my child who was taken and I finally got them home, I would want to do everything I could to help them get through it. I would probably do what Ella\u2019s mom did as well, even though it drove me crazy at times and I felt like she wasn\u2019t listening to her daughter until it was almost too late.
I do like the desperation Ella\u2019s mom faced when trying to make her daughter feel better. And to try and get things back to normal for her. While it was a little much at times, I get it and would probably do the same. You can be the strongest person and something like this could still break you.
This is only my second book by Lucinda Berry but I\u2019m loving this journey into her the worlds she creates and I can\u2019t wait to read more of her words!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n