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“I stepped over her body”- I don’t know, foreshadowing maybe? If I’m stepping over somebody I would just say I stepped over someone I wouldn’t say I stepped over their body unless I knew that they were dead. Again, another example of poor writing I stepped over so because they were laying on the floor, I stepped over a body a body sounds like they’re dead

Shut She’s Not Breathing
She’s gone, she’s dead

No emotion- terrible narration of finding out a best friend has died

Narrator is not convincing- as much as I say I’m going to quit Frieda, her books are so quick and easy to read. Something I can put down and not have to remember much due to her surface writing—-twists that are more common to be predictable but,

In a reading slump

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Guard come to help Sophie and Elliot.
There’s a twist- a good one.
Online predators

She’s raped by DJ
He’s knocked her out as SA her
She tells Elliot-but the man came and found them.
Man gave key to her, tells her to hide it.
Tells her to stop talking
Back to house smelling of bleach and cleaner, Nick is gone.

Nicks not dead yet, breathing is shallow, and they run for the woods.
They escape to a home w a computer on the compound
Computer has letters DJ

Cameras in house
Elliot looks pale, sick- she wants to make sure knife is in the box- why do they want him dead.
Sound at door- son comes in- where’s the dad?
Knife is missing. Did Elliott get similar message
Nicks hand behind back- apologizing, I have to kill Elliott. Dad sacrificed his own life by taking the pills. Elliot kills Nick

All cutlery changed to plàstic, pills in box as well.
She’s beginning that DJ had the same colored pills- what are the odds. Hoping her memory begins-
Now message in mirror- I can get you out of here- take the knife and kill Elliott once done you’re free to leave.

She cuts her own hair- shared Jasmin saved her life. Elliot is asked about first time having sex. It was w her sister in law- is he her nephews father, the timing seems correct
Last question- was Elliot love of your life? No, she thinks it’s more about hormones. Strangers that care about each other.
In the box- clue, puzzles, snacks, and a large knife. What does it mean?

Man body checks them for the key— Elliot hid the key. Trying to figure out why they are together-why put people together that care about each other.

Flashback to date w DJ, a week later- he seems to good to be true

The man and son turn them in- Elliot takes blame and gets pistol whipped. Sophie is furious- but the man and son only have 1 more day on their timer. Both are cuffed, placed in a car- taken to house #5

Really, go back to the house???they go back but things seem different inside. Clock is counting down. Now other men are there- they are in the wrong house. Same situation, different house. The man comes back- but they sneak in to a room to hide.

Walked a path, pulled them into a circle- they are exhausted, each path keeps bringing them back
Then a new path finally leads them away, only to a guarded gate - w a man and a gun

The keys- they get out
House w cottage- still only trees, house in midst of the woods. Run toward he trees, world is silent among them. Dirty paths, can’t hear cars, can’t hear anything.

One week before- date night to meet DJ-

Man comes back- gestures him to grab trash, man has gun, man does it- plan didn’t work- but Elliot grabbed the keys.

Before- 2 weeks ago-
Jas and Sophie are only friends, dating others. Sophie back to dating men.
She has a plan- take the man’s keys, get out the door. Still showering- now Elliot’s back- he’s saying he woke up and she was gone. She thinks she may be dreaming.

Would you really take a shower when locked in a strange place and don’t know what’s going on- guard down too much?
Elliot is now missing, gone, empty and alone again.

Jasmin and her have crossed the line, birthday present led to a long kiss and a night in bed together.

Chapter 7- Elliot is mad- doesn’t believe her.
There’s a countdown and he comes to bring items
They try other ways to get out. Why were they brought together- Elliot broke her heart years ago, why were they there. Who is doing this? Can’t be coincidence.
And the man comes in, with a gun.
Box w platters of food and leaves

Chapter 6- apartment looks reached- flashback
Are roommates tied up???
Just messy apartment- indie and Jasmin broke up, indie made the mess moving out.

A man comes in- he knows her she knows him, Elliott. Now both locked in the house- they both don’t know what’s going on. They haven’t seen each other in 7 1/2 yrs. He doesn’t believe her- he tried to leave

Seven years before- doesn’t seem like she has friends or family. Jasmin visiting her again at the hospital.

Nurse didn’t seem to know Jasmin although she’s a the grandma-

Back in the lock-in- she won’t eat, although food was left for her. She keeps referring to Jasmin as the person to save her.

Plans to hurt her man when he returns

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People come in, looks like a ninja, cardboard box is presented. She has a knife but doesn’t do anything, puts the knife down. He’s there to help her- eat and rest. Ru s to stab him but the blade can’t penetrate his clothing- the man leaves

Sophie and Jasmin meet- due to the incorrect hospital room, Jasmin looking for her grandma.
Back to being locked in- panic seems to have set in. She’s tied into Jasmin- hospital was flashback. Blurry mess of a memory- doesn’t remember being at work, what happened the night before.

Locked in? How does she get out- does she really think she can breakout?

Windows with only trees, no houses, no roads—- why was she locked in?

Waking up in an unfamiliar place, no one there, no purse or phone- clean place but how does she leave—- when she’s locked in?

Male and female telling the story between the butcher (male) and forensic pathologist Wren. Very gory from the start as an investigation begins of Jane Doe- but the author draws the scenes and pictures in the readers mind so precisely.