Books in series
#1
Method 15/33
2015
Imagine a helpless, pregnant 16-year-old who's just been yanked from the serenity of her home and shoved into a dirty van. Kidnapped. Alone. Terrified.
Now forget her ...
Picture instead a pregnant, 16-year-old, manipulative prodigy. She is shoved into a dirty van and, from the first moment of her kidnapping, feels a calm desire for two things: to save her unborn son and to exact merciless revenge.
She is methodical, calculating, scientific in her plotting. A clinical sociopath? Leaving nothing to chance, secure in her timing and practice, she waits for the perfect moment to strike. Method 15/33 is what happens when the victim is just as cold as the captors.
The agents trying to find a kidnapped girl have their own frustrations and desires wrapped into this chilling drama. In the twists of intersecting stories, one is left to ponder. Who is the victim? Who is the aggressor?
#2
Viebury Grove
2018
Recent headlines focusing on the famous and infamous—CEO's, royalty, politicians—being accused of taking part in decades' long human trafficking, lend to this novel's fictionalized focus on a small, but powerful, global human trafficking cabal referred to as The Center Ring, which sells "sexual experiences."
It is the Center Ring that Lisa Yyland has been planning to take down for eighteen years; planning every day since her release from confinement, as she discovered the group was, indeed, connected to her kidnapping at age sixteen. What does eighteen years of planning and collecting assets to catch these horrific people in the act look like? Will her plan work? Will she get revenge? Law enforcements' good intentions, due process, and procedures seem to fail when put up against the powerful elite in these age-old sick enterprises. Does Lisa's brand of vigilante justice stand a better chance?
Author
Shannon Kirk
Author · 7 books
My top 14 books of all time are as follows, in the following order—as in, if I was allowed only 14 books to bring to a deserted island where I was marooned for the rest of my life, these are what I would pack:
- Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabo)
- Orphan Master's Son (Adam Johnson)
- The Mummy Market (Nancy Brelis), tragically out of print, which makes ZERO sense because it's a classic
- The Incarnations (Susan Barker) AMAZING
- Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
- Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
- Swamplandia, and every single word ever written by: (Karen Russell)
- Everything is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)
- The Keep, Jennifer Egan
- The Sea (John Banville)
- Someone Else's Love Story, Joshilyn Jackson.
- Kiss the Girls (Patterson)
- The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah Further to my literary likes, I consider Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Charles Dickens to be actual, literal geniuses; if we had brain scans of their brains, we wouldn't understand what we're seeing. I prefer more prose than dialogue; prefer poetry over intricate plot, but love if I can have both (hence, Love in the Time of Cholera being #1 and Orphan Master's Son #2). But I'm never really consistent with this anyway. If I'm pulled to keep reading the book, I'll keep reading the book. My reviews are all and will only ever be of books I love. I do not finish books I don't like, so it's not fair for me to review them.
