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Title: The Kept

Author: James Scott

Narrator: Kate Udall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-13-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

How far would you go for your family, for love, for revenge? In the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Elspeth Howell returns home to find her family brutally murdered. The only survivor is her 12-year-old son who witnessed it all. Wounded, frightened, and with retribution in their hearts, mother and son set out into the frozen wilderness to track down the red-scarfed men who killed their loved ones in cold blood.

Their journey leads them to a rough-hewn settlement on the edge of ice-filled Lake Erie, a merciless place where violence abounds. Here, forced into a brutal adulthood, Caleb begins to discover truths about his mother he could never have anticipated and Elspeth must finally confront the terrible urges that envelop her.

All the while, the memory of Calebs brothers and sisters presses him onwards. Big skies, deep snow, open wounds: The Kept delves deep into what it means to be a mother - and to be a son. It asks us how far we would go for our family, for love, and, ultimately, for revenge?

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

Okay but moved too slowly. Same things on and on.

not so good

I was unable to finish the book. I found it too dark and boring. Not my type for an enjoyable resd

Enough, Already

The pain and agony did not get resolved. Another morbid novel. Regret buying on the recommendation of your staff. I'll be smarter in the future. Robert G. Long

Incredulous

A midwife abducts babies, hides them in a very isolated homestead and with her husband creates a family unit.

Complications arise when relatives of one of the kidnapped and kept children seek revenge for their loss. The reactions of some of the principal characters to events is unexpected and at times incredible even though we are reading about events in pre-industrial times when society had not advanced to today's standards. It was a struggle to read the book through to see how it ended.

A Stunning Debut Novel - Atmospheric, Sublime and Emotive

This book just blew me away, what a dark, atmospheric emotional novel this is, absolutely unique from anything I have read for a long time. It will stay with me for a while, I still keep thinking back on this book and it's characters. It's haunting and it's haunting me.

What's the book about?

It is the winter of 1897. Elspeth Howell returns to her isolated snow-bound farm to find her family brutally killed. Only her son Caleb has survived and, thinking that the murderers have returned, he shoots his mother.

With her chest bound and Caleb at her side, Elspeth sets out to find the men who committed this heinous crime. But as they get closer to the perpetrators, Caleb discovers his mother has a truly terrible secret and Elspeth finally begins to understand its hideous consequences.

My Review:

Where do I begin? Firstly, let me tell you this is not a fast paced action packed book, it moves slowly, beautifully, surrounds you, pulls you in and gently takes you with it. The writing is sublime, just magnificent. I am baffled at the low reviews this book is getting.

So Elspeth Howell and her only remaining child Caleb set out to hunt the men who killed the family in cold blood, Caleb is twelve years old yet has so much maturity and depth to him as a character, he has the heart of child, but at times the hardness of life makes him almost a man.