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⚠️ Content and trigger warnings: Abduction, Stockholm syndrome, manipulation, PTSD, obsession, stalking

It’s been a long time since I read a YA that was this serious and complicated. It was intense and a real emotional roller coaster and I enjoyed this experience very much.

- This story is about Jane who was kidnapped, and her life after she returns from captivity.
- The author was clever to alternate the story between NOW and THEN– her time in captivity and the current day after she got out. This kept the tension alive in the story.
- This story freaked me a little and I had goosebumps when I was reading how Jane’s kidnapper stocked her room, where she was captured, with all her favorite snacks, clothes and toiletries. You are supposed to freak out, right?
- Though I guessed the big “twist” in the initial chapters itself, the story kept me invested because of its fast pace and how switching between past and present helped to understand Jane’s trauma in a better way.
- It was stressful and heartbreaking to read how Jane was living in her trauma of kidnapping. She felt safer in her closet. Her bed now scared her.
- This book has a wonderful set of characters and each of those characters had their own role in Jane’s healing.
- I really loved the way Jane’s parents were portrayed. We don’t only see how difficult it is for the victim to come out of such traumas, but we also get to see how such incidents affects the parents lives and life of those who are connected to the victim.
- Jane Anonymous is a thriller and a suspense story, but more than that it is a story about learning to heal from a traumatic event on your own terms.
- If you are thinking that you would get to see a ‘healed’ Jane at the end of the story then you would be disappointed because this story is actually about her coming to the terms that she needs help and therapy to come out of that trauma.

Overall, Jane anonymous is a gut-wrenching and gripping story that explores trauma and will surely remain with you for a long time.

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