Book 1 of 3 in the Nine Minutes Trilogy.
On May 15, 1975, fifteen-year-old Ginny Lemon is abducted from a convenience store in Fort Lauderdale by a member of one of the most notorious and brutal motorcycle gangs in South Florida.
From that moment on, her life is forever changed. She gets a new name, a new identity and a new life in the midst of the gang’s base on the edge of the Florida Everglades—a frightening, rough and violent world much like the swamps themselves, where everyone has an alias and loyalty is tantamount to survival.
And at the center of it all is the gang’s leader, Grizz: massive, ruggedly handsome, terrifying and somehow, when it comes to Ginny, tender. She becomes his obsession and the one true love of his life.
So begins a tale of emotional obsession and manipulation, of a young woman ripped from everything she knows and forced to lean on the one person who provides attention, affection and care: her captor. Precocious and intelligent, but still very much a teenager, Ginny struggles to adapt to her existence, initially fighting and then coming to terms with her captivity.
Will she be rescued? Will she escape? Will she get out alive—or get out at all? Part psychological thriller, part coming-of-age novel, filled with mystery, romance and unexpected turns, Nine Minutes takes readers into the world of one motorcycle gang and inside the heart of a young girl, whose abduction brought about its fall.
Review:
I'd seen a lot of great reviews for this book, but because of one of the themes which I was told featured heavily in the story, I was very hesitant to read it. However a good friend, who always recommends the best books, said this was one of her favourites and since every almost every other single book she has told me about was amazing I decided it was time to add it to my TBR list. Today I dived in and could not put Nine Minutes down, except for a brief break I needed to take to stop the tears that seemed as if they would never end.
This story is so brilliantly told, it felt as though the author was not just telling us a story that had come to life in her mind but was telling us a part of her life she had actually lived through. The characters told with such depth that everything about them was real, their journey, thoughts and emotions portrayed in a way it made it impossible not to feel something for them whilst reading, whether it be pity, hate, love or forgiveness.
Grizz is one of the most unpredictable characters I've ever read, I didn't like him and could not forgive certain things that he did, but it was impossible not to be drawn in and want to know everything that was given in relation to who he was and why he acted the way that he did. Beth Flynn did an exceptional job in writing enough detail to make is easier to understand who Grizz was and why Ginny felt the way she did about the man that had changed her life so dramatically. Ginny was introduced into a world of horrific violence at the hands of a man who had kept her prisoner, even through she had feared him at first and still feared for anyone who crossed his path later on, she eventually grew to believe he would never hurt her and this belief lead to trust as well as another deeper connection.
Ginny would also eventually let down her guard when it came to other characters in the story as well, two of the ones that really stood out to me were Moe and Grunt. For me, Moe had some of the most poignant moments in this book, reading a certain part of the story about her is what made me cry so hard that I needed to take the break in the middle. Then there was Grunt, he is one of the characters who I would forgive and also hope that he got what he had wanted most. I'm really looking forward to reading Out of Time (already on my kindle) next, to know more of his story.
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