BOOK REVIEW- TAKEN

BOOK- "TAKEN"- An investigator who knows tragic loss firsthand, 
and his new client, missing far too long...Abducted at the age of sixteen and coerced into assisting the Jacoby crime family, Shannon Bliss has finally found a way out. She desperately wants to resume some semblance of normal life, but she also knows she has some unfinished business to attend to. She might have enough evidence to put her captors behind bars for a very long time. 
When Shannon contacts private investigator Matthew Dane, a former cop, to help her navigate her reentry into society, he quickly discovers that gaining her freedom doesn't mean her troubles are over. If the Jacoby family learns she is still alive, they'll stop at nothing to silence her.
If justice is to be done, and if Shannon's life is ever to get on track again, Matthew will need to discover exactly what happened to her--even if it means stirring up a hornet's nest of secrets.
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Incredibly good book; I loved it.  At first I began to get a bit concerned when a new person one after another was introduced.  But it all began to weave together and wasn't as hard to follow as I feared. And you can see later what a big help they turned out to be.
Some single words to describe this story?  Intense. Emotional.  Riveting.  Faith.  Mysteries. Trust. 
Shannon is a planner and its helped keep her alive while in captivity and now outside of it.  
She chose one person to trust; she chose Matthew Dane as the first person to start with.  It wasn't an accident, she has a newspaper article of how his daughter was rescued after being taken.  It was an interesting way that they first meet.  Their continuing friendship, is built carefully brick by brick; which I liked. .  
Eleven years is a long time to be missing and there are a lot of obstacles to overcome.   I absolutely loved Matthew and his careful steps to try to help her without going faster than she was able to.  His humble trust in God was good right along with his inability to understand some of the things that God seems to have allowed.  He was a person that was easy to relate to and his pain of the years helping his daughter to adjust were believable.  Shannon, was a survivor, fighting to do what she needed to do to get her life back.  But she also had a list that needed to be accomplished before she could go very far.  At the end of the story, it was brought up that all of the things that Matthew and Shannon went through were in about a 3 week time period.  Whew, a lot happened in that time.
Matthew  had quite a few trustworthy people in law enforcement, and security who were people he could reach out to.  They also know how to keep some things under wraps until Shannon was ready to release it.  
Faith in God, prayer and asking for direction, questioning things of God, was in this story.  I hope that people will learn and draw from it but for those who don't want to, this story had so any twists and turns that I think they will still enjoy it if they will read it.  I enjoyed the faith part of it, but still those that don't, they still have quite the story to read.  There's a lot of action to it and mysteries to unravel.   Its one of those books that I just couldn't put down and was almost sorry when it was over.  
Also I just wanted to mention that I liked the cover for this book as well.   Nice Job!  

I received an ARC from Bethany House via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.