![]() ![]() Jon’s release back to his family and only friend, Chloe, is met with wild joy, but that joy quickly subsides when strange things begin to happen. The trick, as someone said, is not to pigeon-hole this book, not to go looking for just one thing or else you won’t find it. ![]() Less a thriller, more a twisted love story, part YA romance with a dash of super-natural horror, it’s not easy to classify. Providence, marks an unexpected change of direction for the bestselling author. This is the story of Providence, the latest book by US author, Caroline Kepnes who leaped to fame with her debut novel, You, published in 2014 and since picked up by Netflix, followed by Hidden Bodies, both excellent, dark-hearted thrillers starring the wonderfully psychotic bookseller, Joe Goldberg. Why kidnap him? And what are these so-called powers he supposedly now has? A note left behind by his kidnapper explains he’s been in an induced coma and has been given special powers. ![]() He vanishes without trace.įour years later he suddenly wakes up in the basement of the local mall. One day, during his usual walk through the woods he is kidnapped by a weird teacher from his school. ![]() And he has only one friend, Chloe, with whom he shares an intense relationship, on-line and off. To avoid being bullied, he walks the long way to school through the woods. Jon is not a popular boy, quite the opposite – he’s a loner. ![]()
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