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Gilly Soloman has been reduced to a mothering machine, taking care of everyone and everything except herself. Burned-out and exhausted by the endless days of crying children and menial tasks, Gilly doesn't immediately consider the consequences when she's carjacked. With a knife to her throat, her first thought is that she'll finally get some rest. Someone can save her for a change.
But salvation isn't so forthcoming. Stranded in a remote, snowbound cabin with this stranger, hours turn to days, days into weeks. As time forges a fragile bond between them, she learns her captor is not the lunatic she first believed, but a human being whose wasted life has been shaped by secrets and tragedy. Yet even as their connection begins to foster trust, Gilly knows she must never forget he's still a man teetering on the edge, one who's not about to let her leave. And she cannot stay.
- Sales Rank: #2363549 in Books
- Published on: 2010-12-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.07" w x 5.38" l, .61 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Hart segues from the erotica she's known for to a dark hostage story that, due to its unrelenting grimness, risks turning readers off. Harried mom Gilly Soloman is carjacked, kidnapped, and held hostage on an isolated, snow-bound mountain by Todd Blauch. Their relationship evolves over the months they're trapped together, transforming from one of captor and captive to something approaching creepy confidantes as Gilly freezes when an opportunity to flee arises, and, as they remain in close quarters, the two share intimate details about their lives. That Todd never planned to kidnap Gilly--he just wanted her truck--but now cannot let her go because he fears going back to prison, generates a palpable tension as readers try to determine how or if Gilly will get away and return to her family. Hart's generally assured writing stumbles when she delves into Gilly's faith, but her sympathetic depiction of Todd redeems that and much of the unnecessarily traumatic backstory she shoves in as the book winds down. This may do the trick for readers whose diversionary tastes lie on the dark side. (Jan.)
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"Hart plunges into the mainstream fiction genre with this haunting, devastating, heart-wrenching tale.This story will stay with you long after you reach the last page." -Romantic Times
"Megan Hart is easily one of the most talented voices I've encountered." -The Romance Reader
Megan Hart is easily one of the most talented voices I've encountered. -The Romance Reader
"Deeper is absolutely, positively, the best book that I have read in ages! I cannot say enough about this book...I am not ashamed to admit that I cried real tears while reading this book. Beautiful, poignant, and bittersweet... Megan Hart never disappoints me, but with Deeper she went above and beyond."-Romance Reader at Heart Top Pick
"Unique and powerfully sensual, Hart's latest novel is also an intensely emotional reading experience. The author's skill with first-person storytelling continues to impress."-Romantic Times on Broken
About the Author
Megan Hart is the award-winning and multi-published author of more than thirty novels, novellas and short stories. Her work has been published in almost every genre, including contemporary women’s fiction, historical romance, romantic suspense and erotica. Megan lives in the deep, dark woods of Pennsylvania with her husband and children, and is currently working on her next novel for MIRA Books. You can contact Megan through her website at www.MeganHart.com.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
No neat and tidy story or characters
By Countess Chocula
Obviously every reviewer has their own set of criteria for rating a book. When I go into one that I know I'm going to review, there are two things I always measure that get factored in and the rest are subjective from there. The two constants though are the technical quality of writing and whether or not the author made me care at all about the characters. I want good writing and I want to either be in love or ticked off. Well, I got both with Precious and Fragile Things, along with a book I wanted to forget as soon as I was done.
Gilly Solomon is ripe for an emotional breakdown. With two young children needing every scrap of attention her clueless, absent husband doesn't and a household falling down around her ears, she's been reduced to locking herself in her closet and screaming into her clothes sometimes. When she's kidnapped at knifepoint at an ATM one night, her initial terror turns to a strange calm. It doesn't take her long to realize she's actually welcoming the peace and quiet and when given the chance to escape, makes a deliberate choice not to. It isn't until she's actually at the cabin where she's to be held that she starts thinking about all the bad choices she's made.
Todd hadn't ever intended to take Gilly, just her truck. He deliberately gave her the chance to escape, but now that she's with him he has no idea how he's going to be able to end their situation. He's been to prison and he'll do anything to avoid going back, including killing her. As the winter progresses though, he tries to befriend Gilly, who sees building any relationship with Todd as an acceptance of what he did. He eventually reveals a horrible past, one that stirs an uneasy mothering instinct in Gilly and leads to a sort of quasi-truce for a very brief time.
I should get out of the way first that I'm a mom. I understand perfectly well a lot of what Gilly was thinking in the beginning of the book; in a lot of ways, it's kind of a universal truth among moms at some point that you'd like to take the proverbial day at the hotel while the kids go to Disneyland without you. I also understood that Gilly had serious hatred for Todd. Where she alienated me was with her incessant internal monologue where she thought of herself as the ultimate martyr, coupled with her actions with Todd, where she was the professional victim. She lost me when she deliberately hurt herself rather than accept any common courtesy from him. She was depressed about not being able to go home, so she stripped out of all the clothes he'd given her and walked into the snow in just the underwear she owned. Those are hardly the actions of a woman wanting to get home to her children, no matter what her mental state. She was utterly unlikable.
I don't even know what I felt for Todd because he was such a slippery character. By turns hardened would-be killer, pitiful and hurt child, exuberant young man and angry captor, he was as inconsistent as Gilly was predictable.
This is a disturbing book. It tackles subjects that aren't always pretty and that can't be resolved in simple, tidy ways. Beyond my issues with the characters and without giving any specific spoilers, the back chapters of this story went beyond implausibility and made me feel duped that I'd even cared about what happened to these two. It's no joke that I had to read something else right away to take the taste of this out of my head.
The reason for my rating of three? Because of those two things I mentioned in my first paragraph: Hart has impeccable writing skills and I actually had feelings for Todd and Gilly. They may not have been good feelings, but the writing was strong enough that I knew who they were and how I felt about them.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Megan Hart Sets The Bar High
By Lauren Dane
(Lest someone think I'm trying to hide this - up front, Megan Hart is my BFF and my crit partner. This does not preclude me from an honest opinion of this amazing book)
In Megan Hart's first MIRA title, she sets the bar high with Precious and Fragile things. First things first - this is NOT a romance. If you're looking for a romance or hot sex you won't find them here.
What you will find is a gut punch of emotion from the first page until you're done. This book is incredibly emotionally taut and intense. The focus is intense and unrelenting. She's stripped both characters down and put them in an isolated, snowed in cabin and then sets about revealing them both in an unflinching manner.
This book grabbed me and never let me go. Hart's writing is, as usual, masterful and yet delicate and subtle when others would use a cudgel. At the same time, this story is dark and jagged. Grim in parts, as such a situation would be.
In the end, I can only come back to my awe at the way this story holds the reader's attention very close to many of the parts of ourselves we may not want to accept or acknowledge. But they're there and it takes guts to make people not only look, but to walk away feeling like those hours she's spent reading have been worth every moment.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Precious Reading About Not Taking Things For Granted (B+ Grade)
By Katie Babs
Gilly Soloman has a life most women would die for. She's a stay at home mother, married to a wonderful man who has two adorable children, and even a dog. Gilly is truly living the American dream. But Gilly wants to run away from it all, this life she has made for herself with the stink of spilled milk in the backseat of her car because of her needy children, an always unfinished To Do List, and a husband who only helps out when he feels like it. Gilly can barely function anymore as she longs for release from her personal hell.
As Gilly drives home from her latest time consuming errand, she stops at an ATM. When she gets back in the car, a man holding a knife climbs into the passenger seat. Gilly must stop this madman before he can hurt her or her babies. She crashes the car and helps her children flee, only to be held hostage by the man, who makes her drive without telling her where he plans to take her. Finally when the car needs gas, this gives Gilly the perfect opportunity to get away. But she doesn't jump out of the car and scream for help. She realizes if she stays, she doesn't have to return to the constant needing and never-ending demands placed upon her.
Her chain-smoking, knife holding kidnapper, Todd, takes her deep into the woods where he was left a cabin by his uncle. Todd never planned to take Gilly with him, he only wanted her car. But since they are miles from nowhere and a wicked winter storm has arrived, he has no choice but to keep Gilly with him. Gilly does try to escape, to no avail. She hates Todd and longs for her husband and children, but she also has a sense of tranquility, a time to reflect back on her life. Gillys thinks of her mentally unstable mother and how she met her husband Seth. Todd is lonely and afraid, just out of prison with nothing to live for, other than what his uncle has left him and now Gilly. He feels Gilly is a kindred soul, and soon he wonders if he and Gilly can stay in the woods together and build a happy family. Gilly begins to sympathize with Todd and the steps he has taken and why, but as the winter moves on, she longs to return to all she has left behind. She comes to the conclusion how special those precious things really are that once drove her crazy. But Todd refuses to let her go. Now she has another decision to make regarding Todd and how far she will go to get free.
Precious and Fragile Things is the first book I've ever by Megan Hart, and one that really opens your mind to those precious things that may drive you crazy sometimes. Told from the point of view of Gilly, this is a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She wants to escape her perfect life and her husband and two young children. She gets her wish when she is carjacked. Gilly comes to a few welcomed conclusions, and how her kidnapper Todd, is not what he seems. These are two very flawed people who come to rely on one another.
Some may view Gilly as selfish. But I saw her as a woman on the verge of despair and hopelessness. Even though her decision to stay with Todd may seem very strange, this gives her the chance to open her eyes to all that she has and how blessed she truly is.
Todd is a sympathetic character that reminds me very much of Bigger Smart, from the classic novel, Native Son by Richard Wright. As Bigger was a product of his environment, the same applies to Todd. He acts the way he does because he's a desperate man with no hope, much like Gilly is in regards to the downward spiral of her own life. Whereas Gilly suffers mainly in silence, Todd is very vocal. When he tells Gilly what his mother did to him and his siblings as children, your heart will break. Megan slowly builds a shaky camaraderie between these two that can never go farther than the cabin. And the outcome with how Gilly finally ends her relationship with Todd is poetic in a sense.
The one major problem I had with Precious and Fragile Things is a sudden, out of left field shocking admittance on Todd's part about his mother and uncle's relationship. This outlandish reveal may stun the reader and would have been left unwritten. I really can't understand why Megan would add it in the first place. Perhaps to shed light on why Todd turned out the way he did? Even with this issue concerning Todd, and the too pat, questionable ending, I still felt myself drawn in by these two characters and their histories.
Much like Emma Donoghue's Room is about the power of love, Megan Hart's Precious and Fragile Things shows how nothing should never be taken for granted. Life is precious in all its forms, and sometimes it takes a disturbing event or an unsettling person to place a mirror up to our faces, much like Todd does with Gilly.
Precious and Fragile Things is a poignant and reflective tale that I urge anyone read. Afterward, you may find yourself holding those you love close and thanking them for loving you in return.
Katiebabs
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