This is not going to be a delightful review for those who loved it. so you may skip ahead if you don't want to see me talking all negative about it.
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Now, to those of you who are still here to read my review, I would not recommend you this book. First of all, the plot of this book is a promising and an intriguing element if it had been more deep and profound. It had that potential but Donoghue has made it so simple and childish by narrating it from the voice of a precocious child. I guess if it had been from the mother's perspective, it would have surpassed my expectations. Writing from the child's view even made it look lame.
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If you don't know anything about the book, it is the story of a nineteen year old girl who had been abducted and locked in a room for seven years by a man she call as 'old Nick' and there she gives birth to a boy. When the boy reaches five years, she is making a plan and using him to escape the place. so the story is in two parts first what that happens inside the room and next after they escape it.
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Now, where it exactly lacked is
1. That old Nick had locked her there for whole seven years with electronic lock, alarm and stuffs like that. She can't even break through the wall but funnily, the escape was quite easy that he didn't even bother to check whether what she was saying is true. That was so out of the character.
2. There was no emotion or whatsoever. Honestly, I couldn't feel them at all.
3. As I said earlier, it would have been better if the mother had narrated the story. I couldn't see the transition in her emotion eventhough she is seeing the real world for the first time after seven years.
4. It didn't thrill me at all. It wasn't engaging. I thought of putting it down in several places.
5. The tone of the book was so monotonous, annoying and boring.
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There were so many things I wanted to mention when I read it. Unfortunately, I didn't note them down. So I guess that's all I have in my mind right now.