Book Review: Dying for Christmas by Tammy Cohen
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Jessica Gold stops for a coffee after a long day of
Christmas shopping. She leaves with a man named Dominic Lacey and ends up in
his apartment. She begins to regret her mistake and wants to leave but Dominic
has other plans. He’s keeping her captive for twelve days of Christmas
celebrations.
Every day gets more bizarre. Dominic behaves erratically. He
dresses her in his missing wife’s clothing, force feeds her rich and fatty
foods and then calls her fat, and every night he gives her a morbid gift.
Included are family photos, his dead sister’s favorite toy…even a bag of teeth.
He claims he will let Jessica go home but she knows that she will never be able
to escape.
All the attempts to leave are foiled by Dominic. He always
seems to be one step ahead of Jessica. Kim, the detective in charge of the
investigation into Jessica’s disappearance, has no clear leads to where Jessica
could be. It’s like she disappeared into thin air.
I’m not going to get too in depth because to do so would
reveal the plot twists that kept me reading this book into the wee hours. Every
time I thought I had things figured out the plot would veer off and surprise
me.
The ending was a little creepy and felt a little unfinished.
The parts of the book with Kim the detective pulled me out of the story and
felt unnecessary. Other than that this was a decent thriller with a ton of
twists.
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley.com in
exchange for an honest review.
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