Book description
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD SAYERS WAYTE HAS EVERYTHING.
Popularity, good looks, perfect grades—there's nothing Sayers' family money can't buy.
Until he's kidnapped by a man who tells him the privileged life he's been living is based on a lie.
Trapped in a windowless room, without knowing why he's been taken or how long…
Why read it?
1 author picked Dark Room Etiquette as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If you’ve been through something horrible, how do you go back to living your life? This question (a familiar one for me) is at the center of Dark Room Etiquette, in which a teen is kidnapped and brainwashed by a lonely man with religious delusions.
It’s a top-notch abduction thriller but also a fearless depiction of living with trauma; if anything, the story becomes more gripping once Sayers is rescued. Plus, the character arc is stunning. Sayers transforms from an entitled rich kid to withdrawn and helpless, and finally to destabilized and haunted.
It’s profound, sensitive, and completely believable.…
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