The Last Thing To Burn

I devoured this book!  Luckily for me I had a four-hour car ride and my only job was to navigate (easy), so I was able to devote the entire time to this book.  Best way to travel. 🙂  It’s a quick read and it will keep your attention the entire time.  

Summary:

Years ago, two men showed up in Thanh Dau’s Vietnamese village telling her parents that she and her sister could travel to the United Kingdom and start a new life with wonderful possibilities. For a handsome price, the men would provide passage and once the girls were settled with jobs and a place to live, they would be able to pay back the debt.  Unbeknownst to the family, the men were sex traffickers.  

Now in the UK, the sisters are separated, and Thanh is kidnapped and forced into an unimaginable situation- as a sex and household slave laborer. Your heart will go out to Thanh as each of her belongings is taken away from her and gets tossed into the furnace each time, she breaks a rule.  It’s very difficult to escape because there are cameras videotaping her every move and HE watches the tapes each day before he sits down to eat the dinner that Thanh painfully prepares.  When Thanh discovers she is pregnant, she vows she will stop at nothing to get her child out from the clutches of her kidnapper. Thanh goes to great lengths to escape, despite the pain from her mangled foot- a punishment for trying to escape once before.

This is such a good story with believable characters and an intriguing plot line.  You and your book club members will find yourselves cheering on Thanh as she plots her escape and you will feel for her when she is finally reunited with her sister.