The Tutor by K. Larsen Published June 5, 2017 Dark Romantic Suspense
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Description:
After a party gone wrong and in desperate need of money for the fall semester of college, twenty-year-old Nora Robertson needs to escape her hometown.
She accepts a summer long live-in tutoring job for a handsome man and his little sister at a secluded home deep in the mountains.
There is no running water.
No electricity.
No internet or cell service.
When her tutoring job ends she’s hit with a brutal turn of events … she’s not permitted to leave.
Renee’s Five Star Review
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.
This is a dark romantic suspense novel. It may have triggers inside the story for some people.
Nora Robertson is in desperate need of money for her next semester of college. She too had been to a party that went way wrong. Now she just needs to get out of town. A summer job as a live in tutor for a handsome man and his little sister at their secluded home deep in the mountains paying great money is just the escape she needs. There is no running water, electricity, internet, or cell service. All is great with this summer job until it is time to go home after three months…..she is not permitted to leave. After many months in captivity Nora makes a harrowing escape with her student and ends up in a car accident on a desolate road. When Nora comes to, her student is missing. Now in a desperate attempt to find the girl, Nora will have to recount her time held captive. The good and the bad. Can Nora and law enforcement work together to find the man who took her and will they be in time to save her student if they do?
I finished this morning but have thought on how to write this review for a while. I will be the first to tell you that this is the side of the dark stories you read that you usually don’t see. We generally do no see the aftermath of an escaped slave for example or if we do it isn’t very in depth. With The Tutor you experience the dark events of Nora’s captivity though her retelling of her story to authorities and her therapist. It took me a bit to get adjusted to this. I bounced between is the bad guy really bad or is he misunderstood? Does Nora really love him or is she as messed up as he is? I can tell you that Holden is a psycho But, through the eyes of Nora it is almost like her unique love story with Holden is unfolding before your eyes and then something will happen that has you reeling and that is when I would question everything I thought I knew. This is Nora telling the story of she and Holden in therapy mostly. This is her years of therapy and recovery your going to experience. Like I said a side we generally do not see in dark books. With that said I loved it. You will have so many questions and you sure will not be sure how Nora is going to react or what she is going to do. My heart hurt for her but and I guess I question my own sanity for saying this but my heart broke for her. She survived and she loved at the same time. But, everything is not as it always seems and as I learned that I understood Nora’s thinking better.
This is a really good book. I had trouble with it at first like I said but then it just all fell and flowed and everything that can happen will happen in this book. This is my first K. Larsen book ever. Why have I just not discovered the goodness that is K. Larsen. You can bet I will be reading more books by this author and that I can not wait until The Brother!!!
Carla’s Five Star Review
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.
This is my first time reading anything by K. Larsen. Why oh why haven’t I discovered the awesomeness that is K. Larsen?? I swear I would give her ten stars if I could. Five just aren’t enough!
The Tutor is simply phenomenal! It is a dark read, so if that bothers you, you might want to skip this one.
For fear of spoilers, my review is going to seem somewhat vague because I don’t want to take a chance of saying something that might ruin another person’s experience.
The story line sucked me in from the beginning and kept me glued to my kindle way up into the wee hours of the morning. It is just one of those stories that you can’t stop reading.
Following a tragic event, Nora needs to get away and clear her mind. When she sees an ad in the paper for someone to tutor an 11 year old girl for three months, she jumps at the chance. She is a little shocked to learn that the cabin she will be staying in does not have internet, electricity nor running water. Oh, they also grow their own vegetables and they kill what they are going to eat for dinner. There are many scenes that might be too graphic for some. Poor Nora has it rough. Holden, her boss, is a lunatic and he does some creepy stuff. When she learns that her three months are up, she wants to leave. Holden doesn’t want her to go, so he is going to hold her as his prisoner.
Man, this book is super dark and twisted. I am sitting here questioning my own sanity for loving this book so much! The characters were very intriguing and each had a lot of depth, Be prepared, this story will bring out all the feels. (and maybe lead to an appt, with your psychiatrist.
Super Book! K.Larsen
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Excerpt:
Holden dressed me that first day out of the box. He dressed me and left me in his bedroom on his bed. I sobbed until my body had no more liquid to expel. I curled into a tiny ball and willed everything not to be true. At some point, probably mid-day, he came in with a bucket, washcloth, and tray of food. He gently, tenderly almost, sat me up and fed me. Small bites. He murmured that things would be okay. That I would see. When the food was gone, he lifted my dress from my body. I stared at the wall unmoving. He dampened the washcloth and washed me head to toe. There was nothing sexual about it. It was simply cleaning the filth and stench from my skin. If I’m honest, I almost enjoyed it. Being clean is something we take for granted. He left me in his room after a swift kiss on the crown of my head until dinner. He brought in a tray and fed me again. Afterward, he brushed my hair free of all the knots and braided it. When he finished I laid back down and squeezed my eyes shut so tightly that the apples of my cheeks began to burn.
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