Trapped

by Edmund Plante

Book Overview

1st Leisure edition 1989 paperback vg++ book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843928778
• ISBN13: 9780843928778
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Banner of Truth
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Visitors in the night...

This is a book that I have read a few years back. I remember it to be quite exciting. The book told the story of a family who went on a camping trip. The couple was trying to patch up their crumbling marriage, so they had thought that some time spent together in the serene camping site would help them. But the cabin in which they have moved into was not what they had anticipated, as there were some weird visitors in the night, scaring the hell out of them. The aliens wanted to capture them and do some experiments.I must say that the story is not something that can be taken seriously. Overall, it is an enjoyable one with bits of excitment.

It always seemed to be leading up to to something...

"Trapped" always seemed to be leading up to some kind of horrifying scene, but that never happened. It just seemed to keep going up and and up and up, and it never really climaxed. "Trapped" was about a story about a family taking a camping trip to a cabin by the lake. Maggie and Keith Hunter, a married couple trying to rejuvenate the crumbling marraige, Vivian, Maggie's mother, Brice and Toni, Maggie and Keith's kids, and Toni's best friend Lisa are all part of the actually interesting cast. One morning, they wake up to find the perimeter of the cabin surrounded by a see-through shield, and a cylindrical craft of some sorts is with them. Soon, they learn that they are trapped with a group of freaky aliens using them to study humans, in a pretty gruesome way, may I add. The story goes on from there, with these weird-looking aliens coming out every night to release an attack on them. But it doesn't stop with physical violence. No, they can also probe into the group's mind. And what they do to Keith is disgusting. All in all, the story is okay. Keith and Lisa have an affair--actually two affairs--while they are there, and since Keith already cheated on Maggie and that is why their marraige is crumbling, elements of that are added in strangely. All the characters seemed to have their own large piece in the story, even though Maggie took the center stage as the star. Vivian, Toni, and Brice--as well as Keith and Lisa--all had their parts in the story to add to it all, and I liked that. That made all the characters able to be cared for. Good luck finding this. I got it at a used bookstore, but I doubt you'll find this. It's worth looking around for it if you want. And if you've read "Alone in the House," by the same author, Email me and tell me what it was about. Thanks.