Trapped

I decided to listen to this book because it takes place in northern Michigan’s Lake Huron. I camped in a tent in the upper peninsula of Michigan and I thought it would be a story I could relate to. I truly was not prepared for the terror that starts immediately in the beginning of the story around a campfire.

Psychologist Martin Randhurst, his wife Sara, and their infant son Jack embark on a camping trip with six troubled teens on a supposedly uninhabited island on northern Michigan's Lake Huron. They start with a boat trip, then it's straight to traditional scary stories around a campfire as Martin tells the legend of a Civil War prison camp with horrific conditions that forced the Confederate inmates into cannibalism to survive. When Martin disappears screaming at the end of the story, the kids think it’s a juvenile prank, which instead leads to a book that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

The twists along the way make this very compelling. Thank goodness there is a lot of storytelling so it’s not just violence. I could not listen to this alone, but listening while I am working gives me a break from the horror. This book is definitely not for the faint of heart.

-K.R.