My mind was filled with questions and the more I discovered, the more questions I had. By the end of the second one, I had full body shivers and was desperately trying to figure out what was happening. By the end of the first chapter, my mind was spinning. The story itself drew me in from the first page. But I will say that when you read it, pay attention to everything. I’m the kind of reader who loves knowing in advance but I just dove in and loved my reading experience.

If you decide to read it, just dive right in. I’m not going to say anything about the plot here and my strong advice is not to look up any spoilers. Some layers answered questions, others brought up new ones and, throughout it all, I remained riveted to the story. With each layer, you discover a little more about the characters and what had shaped their lives. The story unfolds in layers upon layers going forward and backward in time.

Mud Vein is not a fairy tale and honestly, it’s not really a romance either (at least not in the traditional way) even though it has very strong elements of love woven throughout it. With her survival hanging by a thread, Senna soon realizes this is a game. But, her past has a heartbeat…and her kidnapper is nowhere to be found. If she wants her freedom, she has to take a close look at her past. Caged behind an electrical fence, locked in a house in the middle of the snow, Senna is left to decode the clues to find out why she was taken. When reclusive novelist Senna Richards wakes up on her thirty-third birthday, everything has changed. well, it was one hell of an amazing story. I will admit though that she told me to expect a ' non-traditional ending' before I started and I think knowing that allowed me to just stop worrying, stop expecting something in particular from it and just read it for what it was. I guess I felt a certain safety in that in a weird way - like, knowing it was outside the box allowed me the mental freedom to just let go of the things I usually hold onto and just experience the story for what it was. I basically just came to understand that the stories I’d get from her would be fantastically well-written and completely outside the box. She earned my trust with the Love Me With Lies series but in a different way than most authors. There are very few authors in the world whose books I will go into blind. What could I say that would properly convey my feelings about this book? I felt like my review should just have been 3 words and 2 hashtags:

That was pretty much my response after finishing this book. You want your freedom until you get it, then you feel bare without your chains.” “That’s what it’s like to be a prisoner of anything.

Mud vein by tarryn fisher