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Book Review

Two years ago I read the book Hide by Lisa Gardner. It's a suspense novel about a girl named Annabelle, whose father has made her spend her whole life running from something unknown. Like most parents, her father cared more about her safety than anything else, which is why he made his family move to a new state every year and get new, fake identities each time. Annabelle never knew what they were running from, and eventually she stopped asking because she was afraid that the truth would scare her even more. If she didn't know what the danger was, it would be easier to ignore it and pretend like it didn't exist. Years later, both of Annabelle's parents dies and she moves back to her hometown, Boston. She's tired of hiding and tries to convince herself that her father was just overly paranoid and overprotective and that she was never really in danger, and that he just scared her mother into believing it too. But eventually, the truth catches up with her, and she learns that you can run, but you can't hide. In order to find out what her father has been so terrified of, she has to let down her guard and face the enemy, which is exactly what her father told her not to. Eventually she decides to tell the police her bizarre story, and together with state cop Bobby Dodge, she's determined to solve the mystery of her childhood once and for all.
I've read several of Lisa Gardner's novels, including The Survivors Club and The Other Daughter, and while I've liked them all, this is by far my favorite. They've all grabbed my attention, but Hide is the only one that's actually made an impact on me and I can't get it out of my head, even two years later. The main character, Annabelle, is part of the reason for that. She was inspiring, strong and funny. There is nothing worse than reading a book about a person who does nothing but complain, because I like to be able to root for the characters and feel that they are making the right decisions. If Annabelle had walked right into the killer's arms like most fiction characters would have done, I would most likely have thrown the book out of the window. I want the main character to be someone I can relate to, because it makes a story so much more enjoyable and interesting. And that's exactly what this book did for me. I did get a little annoyed towards the end, because the whole book was about how prepared she was for danger and what a defense expert she was, but she proved to be pretty defenseless when confronted. Still, this just made her character more realistic.
The whole book is suspenseful and interesting, and the misleads made me keep my interest and it kept me guessing until the very end. It definitely shows that Lisa Gardner did her very best on this book, and as usual, the killer came as a shocking surprise, and all loose ends are neatly tied up in the end (tied up or tied together?). The only disappointment was that I found the end to be a little too spontanious. It almost seemed like the author was running out of time and had to think of an ending quickly, so she just invented a whole new character to be the bad guy and threw him in there. In the end, there were (were or was?) just too many psychopaths to make the story realistic. But then again, it's not supposed to be a real story.

The book has affected me in a lot of ways. Maybe it was because I was younger when I read it, or maybe it was the way the author wrote it, as if she really felt what Annabelle was feeling. She made it seem too real to be fiction and almost made me believe the story. But even though I loved the book, I wouldn't say it affected me in a good way. It made me extremely paranoid for several months... every time I walked past a car, I would walk all the way around it to make it harder for a potential kidnapper to drag me inside of it. I've always thought it's better to be safe than sorry, but thankfully, I've realized now that there's a difference between being safe and being paranoid. Still, this book opened my eyes and made me more observant to the world around me, and that's more than I can say about any other book I've ever read and then thrown away.

All in all, this is a fantastic mystery that I would recommend to anyone who likes the genre. It's suspenseful, funny and romantic all at once. How does she do it?