Name: Marsh King's Daughter
ISBN: 9780751567397

Karen Dionne

Marsh King's Daughter

"At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an emergency news announcement and realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her. Helena has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No electricity, no heat, no running water, not a single human beyond the three of them. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in naturefishing, tracking, hunting. And despite her father's odd temperament and sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too . . . until she learned precisely how savage a person he could be. More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn't know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marshland he knows better than anyone else in the world. The police commence a manhunt, but Helena knows they don't stand a chance. Knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh Kingbecause only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter."--Amazon.com

The Marsh King's daughter

Patricia Nelson

Great book! The way the story is told grabbed my attention and I flew through the story. The first person account of the story by the girl who grew up the way she did was interesting and thought-provoking. Would be a great book for book club discussions!

Ariana Jordan

I have never read a book that has captivated me and given me real emotions to deal with while reading. This book captured me completely and I will recommend it to anyone I know.

Cindy

This book really did not work for me, I could not connect at all with any of the characters. The story is told from Helena's point of view about her escaped from prison father The Marsh King. Helena was born into captivity, the captor being her father. I feel that, in my opinion, Helena glorified her father. He taught her the skills to survive in the wilderness and that alone will help Helena track The Marsh King down. The story itself is very well written. I just did not enjoy this book at all.This review was originally posted on Cindy's Book Binge

lizbet koval

The author spends too much time focusing on Helena’s upbringing, the life in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but not on the tension and suspense in the present situation. We see a lot of from the “happy” childhood, while I would not refuse to know more about the new personalities and separate lives of the daughter and father. Moreover, too little of the character development shows us that the connection girl has with the idolized violent relative almost never goes away. I did have a hard time reading all the hunting and killing details.

On the whole, the reader looking for the thought-provoking and explorative of the narrator’s mindset novel will definitely enjoy the book. Although, those, who desire developed characters, justified decisions and richly-described events, will be left with some questions and wanting more to fulfil the expectations.

Michelle Miller

I had a hell of a time even trying to read this book. It seemed compelling but I just could NOT get myself into this book :(

The Marsh King's Daughter

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Raised in isolation in the marshes of the Upper Peninsula, Helena grew up not realizing the father she simultaneously adored and feared kidnapped her mother and was holding them prisoner for her entire childhood.

Helena discovered this dark secret as a teenager, spurring her and her mother's escape. Her father was eventually captured and is serving a life term in prison. Now an adult, Helena has kept her identity a secret from her husband and two young daughters, leading a quiet, happy life selling jam, hunting with her loyal dog, and enjoying the outdoors. She struggles still with fitting in with society and cannot fully hate her upbringing or her father, despite the evils he wrought against both her and her mother.

Helena's secret identity as the notorious Marsh King's Daughter is exposed after her father murders two prison guards and escapes back into the wilderness near Helena's home. Helena believes she is the only person who can find her father, beginning a dangerous cat and mouse game.

Spanning a short time period in the present parts of the novel while also delving deeply back into Helena's childhood, this is a thrilling, scary ride into the depths of what it means to be a family, to be a father, to be a daughter. You never quite know what Helena's endgame is. Will she kill her father or will she let him go once she wins their sick game?

A great audiobook as well, the narrator was excellent. Highly recommend.

Heather Roden  

Okay wow! This book was so good!! I loved every single page! I loved her story and going back in the past with her, such a kick ass female !!

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You've met Kya, the 'marsh girl' now meet Helena, 'the marsh king's daughter...' 'What to read after Where the Crawdads Sing' AMAZON 'Emotionally and intellectually thrilling, tremendously exciting' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'I loved this book' LEE CHILD 'Gorgeously written eerie suspense' KARIN SLAUGHTER You'd recognise my mother's name if I told it to you. You'd wonder, briefly, where is she now? And didn't she have a daughter while she was missing? And whatever happened to the little girl? Helena's home is now like anyone else's, with a husband and two daughters and a job she enjoys. But no one knows the truth about her childhood. Brought up in a cabin in the wilderness until she was twelve, Helena's father kept her and her mother isolated and unable to leave their marshland home, until the fateful day Helena escaped and her father faced justice. Now years later and with news that he has escaped from prison, Helena instinctively knows that her father is coming for her and if she is to keep her family safe, she must once again return to the marsh, to confront him in the wilderness and become the Marsh King's daughter once again. An unforgettable and emotional read-in-one-sitting story packed with gripping suspense. __________ 'Kya, the main character in Crawdads, is known as the "Marsh Girl." The Marsh King's Daughter shares the marsh moniker, along with the mystery and thriller elements of Crawdads... if you're looking for another strong female character and a book where the characters are of their environment, this book might do the trick' AMAZON 'Unlike anything else I've read. Haunting and unputdownable' LAURA MARSHALL 'If you only read one thriller this year, make it this' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'You won't be able to stop turning the pages' MEGAN ABBOTT 'A wonderful book... Mesmerising' ALEX MARWOOD 'A nail-biter' COSMOPOLITAN 'A knockout' SARAH HILARY 'I was absolutely gripped' GILLY MACMILLAN 'Eerie and breathtaking, terrific and terrifying' TÉA OBREHT 'Original and exciting, with a thrilling ending' MARK EDWARDS

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