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When reclusive novelist Senna Richards wakes up on her 33rd birthday, everything has changed. Caged behind an electrical fence, locked in a house in the middle of the snow, Senna is left to decode the clues to find out why she was taken. If she wants her freedom, she has to take a close look at her past. But, her past has a heartbeat... and her kidnapper is nowhere to be found. With her survival hanging by a thread, Senna soon realizes this is a game. A dangerous one. Only the truth can set her free.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAudible Studios on Brilliance Audio
- Publication dateJuly 7, 2020
- Dimensions6.5 x 1.13 x 5.5 inches
- ISBN-101799738094
- ISBN-13978-1799738091
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New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Tarryn Fisher is cooler than you, but not one to rub it in your face. She graduated first in her class at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She is a lover of human nature, and a real life villain (House of Slytherin). Her heart is dark, but she loves you with it anyway. Currently she lives in Washington with her son and daughter, and just finished her ninth novel, Bad Mommy, which is now available.
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Synopsis
When reclusive novelist Senna Richards wakes up on her thirty-third birthday, everything has changed. Caged behind an electrical fence, locked in a house in the middle of the snow, Senna is left to decode the clues to find out why she was taken. If she wants her freedom, she has to take a close look at her past. But, her past has a heartbeat…and her kidnapper is nowhere to be found.
With her survival hanging by a thread, Senna soon realizes this is a game. A dangerous one. Only the truth can set her free.
I couldn't decide whether or not I wanted to let the thoughts and emotions rampaging through me, run their course and settle, or just write through those feelings. Seeing as though I honestly can't see an end to what I feel regarding this book, I decided to just go for it.
"Because simplicity speaks the loudest." - MUD VEIN
Not to sure that there is anything simple about the words, character(s), taste, texture, feel, mood, or pace of this book for me.
Quite simply, I'm lost inside of this story and finding it very difficult to pull myself out.
Tarryn Fisher has made me love and loathe someone because of the likeness I share with this person. It is no revelation that we're our own worst enemy, which in my eyes Senna most definitely is.
Senna Richards is a dark soul. Real. Flawed and broken. Closed off from her own heart by circumstance and choice. She isn't looking to be fixed. She is comfortable in her disrepair. I'm comfortable with her lack of sense. It makes her human. Relatable. Because yes, some of us are equally as broken and muddied by our past. Most people spend their lives looking to be saved; waiting for a hero to come and rescue them. Some of us are happy to remain broken. To live with the remaining pieces of ourselves until we fall apart completely; so we can stop fighting.
People are drawn to darkness. Without darkness, there would be no light. There would be no need for light. Those of us who live in the light, search for those who have too much darkness. All in an effort to expose the flaws and cracks in our framework. Gives us purpose, or so we like to believe. We feed our egos by focusing our hero complexes on one another and deciding, "I can fix you," "I can make this all better and right." Because in the end this little patchwork job I've taken on suits my bottom line. I feel better about me because I made you better.
Very rarely do you come across a person in your life that exist solely to focus on you. To give you a breath of life that you didn't know you needed. Didn't even realize you wanted. To allow you the space and time to understand that you're good either way. Light or dark. Whole are broken. I'm going to walk with you no matter what, because that's what I was made for.
Dr. Isaac Asterholder comes forth fully aware (in a way that I'm still having trouble reconciling) and prepared to serve his purpose. What intrigues me about his character, is his honesty. People aren't honest. Not really. We lie, deceive, omit, misdirect and manipulate one another. Honesty leaves you vulnerable; open.
How does someone decide to be that honest with another person? I'd like to believe the connection; the invisible thread that held Senna and Isaac together, explains that. Even though it was very one-sided for most of the story, his awareness of that connection exposed a world of possibilities for me.
The possibility that love, a true and unconditional love can exist between two people. Not just a trumped up version of what we think love is. What we like to dress love up in to make it appear truer than it is. Because let's be honest, most love is conditional. Parental, familial, romantic. We give and take love depending on what it does for us. But the idea that we're connected to someone, loved by someone simply because we exist. You can't take that away. You can't alter it. It lives with you, in you, from the moment you discover it, until you are no longer in this life. Even then I'd like to hope it endures.
Isaac gives to Senna something far more valuable than anything I've ever experienced. Truth in love. Despite the bad, he pushes forward and shows that the ugliness inside of us can be touched. It can be altered and shaped into something beautiful, just through the sheer will of someone who thinks you're worth more than you believe yourself to be.
I'm thankful for that. I'd like to think that authors speak from experiences, whether their own or others. It gives me hope.
I've buried two mothers in this life, respectively at 5 and 29. Both suffered through cancer. My biological, cancer of the lymph nodes, leading to a hysterectomy, which inevitably led to her suicide. My stepmother, from breast cancer that metastasized into her brain and lungs, which she eventually succumbed to. The first woman left of her own volition, leaving me with a father who was ill-equipped to deal, which in turn pretty much left me on my own, to be easily preyed upon by the world. The second was an ever present light on the harbor, which I could always return to, only to be snuffed out, leaving me blind and floating along. The abandonment that shapes Senna, I identify with it so much it hurts my heart. I wish it didn't exist, but I know it to be all too true.
As I sit here, tears streaming down my face, I can't decide whether I'd like to go back and read through Senna and Isaac's story again. I know I'll uncover more layers, more truths, but I'm scared. Fearful that I'll recognize more of myself; fearful that I won't. I might be a different kind of ugly. A whole different kind of dark. Who knows.
What I do know, is that I pray there is an Isaac out there for everyone. Someone who'll reach into you and hold on for dear life. All because a force greater than fear, hurt, pain, loss or ego, decided long ago that this is your person and you don't have a choice. That you don't get a chance to regret their presence because you know that without them, good or bad, you'll miss out on something; anything; everything. Leaving you floating helplessly along until nothing is left of you. I pray that whoever your person(s) is, they're strong enough, aware enough, and selfless enough to recognize the tie that binds.
"And when I die, I know there will be an invisible red thread connecting me to my soulmate. It can tangle, and it can stretch, but it can never break. When I die, I’ll be in the light. And someday Isaac will find me, because that’s what he is."
(2014-04-05). Mud Vein (Kindle Locations 3486-3488). . Kindle Edition.
MUD VEIN is not a traditional romance. It's dark and unpleasant, with a nonlinear story line. It actually reminds me of another book I read recently called THE GHOSTWRITER, in the sense that this damaged woman shrouded in mystery is the narrator of the tale, and it's all about her journey and her tragic love story as she tries to come to terms with herself and learn how to be human again.
Senna, the heroine of MUD VEIN, wakes up one day in a house surrounded by snow, penned in by an electric fence, and supplied with enough food to last a couple months. Also trapped with her is a doctor, named Isaac. The house is filled with clues that allude to a past that she'd rather forget, and secrets that she's never told to anyone...except for Isaac. Who captured them? And how do they get free? The answers to both questions are interlinked in a surprising way.
The story is chopped up into three seconds and it looks like my friends who DNF'd this (there were a surprising amount!) decided to do so in the second part. Which I get. The second part is where it starts to get slow and really depressing. I actually liked the minutiae, though, because it was the part of the story where we get to really know Senna as a person and a lot of the clues behind her imprisonment begin to fall into place. The first part is definitely the best, though - the gradual reveals are paced perfectly evenly, and have this "Netflix Original" vibe.
So why not five stars? That slow middle section. It was sloooow. I didn't mind reading it, but it didn't keep me locked in the way the first part of the story did. I also wasn't keen on the last chapter of the book - not because it was depressing, but because one of the twists didn't really make sense and wasn't foreshadowed sufficiently or explained particularly well. I was left feeling confused, and I don't think it was because I didn't understand what was going on; I think it was bad storytelling.
Still; this was a darn good book and I read it in a single day. One of my friends recommended this author to me because she said that her stories reminded her of my stories, and I guess that means dark and twisty - which I can totally get on board with. I love dark and twisty when it's done well, and this was done very well. I have a whole bunch of this author's other books on my Kindle and can't wait to start them, because the writing in MUD VEIN has left me feeling incredibly optimistic (although the story itself did not - yeesh).
4 out of 5 stars
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Mud Vein is an interesting novel though - avoiding as such the cliche love story boy meets girl, and promising something far darker - however I found the main female, Senna, very unlikeable for various reasons and think that that affected my attachment to the book as I was reading it - rather than holding my breath waiting to find out her ending, I was anticipating the finale which is unusual for me in itself.
Senna wakes up in a cabin, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by cliffs of snow and can't even get out. She is alone - but not alone - there is someone from her past there, but why? And how? What does it all mean?
They have provisions; enough food and heat for a certain length of time, but who has put them there - and who knows the story of their past? What has the 'carousel room' got to do with it....
I don't really know what else to say. I would recommend reading just out of interest - and intend to go through all the other reviews now to see what has been said; am I alone in my reactions, or do other readers feel the same way. I just felt, I don't know ... Senna's reactions to what had happened should have been far more mentally disturbing (how would you react?) and then the ending - the reveal of the Zookeeper.... it just, left me feeling a little lacking.
but, as I said above, I will definitely be checking out more of Tarryn's books to see if those catch my attention better.

5 stars!!
“It’s your darkness that pulls me in. Your mud vein. But sometimes having a mud vein will kill you.”
I really do not know where to start with this review. This is one book that was hard to read and is going to be extremely hard to review. With Tarryn Fisher you always know to expect the unexpected and this book is no different. While personally I didn’t like the ending it is what I have come to expect and I can see why Tarryn chose to end it that way, you know that with Tarryn at the other end of the keyboard it will never be what you think or want. One thing that you cannot deny though is that this book is flawlessly written, it will have you captivated from the start and will have you second guessing, third guessing and eternally guessing who the captor is, but such is the genius in the way it is written I bet you will be wrong time and time again. I for one never guessed and I watch a lot of crime type programmes and thought I would have seen through the plot, but alas no, I was wrong, each and every time.
If you are going into this thinking that this is a dark and erotic book then think again, I would say more of a dark, psychological thriller…more like a horror film and definitely not a romance. Actually, I think that this would make a great film, one that I would definitely watch. You are kept on the edge of your seat at all times, never knowing what is around the corner and it is that constant state of suspense that keeps you hanging and turning the pages. The words truly draw you in and you feel their fear, you feel their hunger, you feel their mental torture, you just FEEL and I love a book that makes me FEEL.
The blurb gives nothing away, only the beginning of the book. Senna wakes one morning with what she thinks is the mother of all hangovers, after all she was out celebrating her birthday. She soon realises she has no idea where she is and automatically thinks she has woken up in a strangers bed. She soon realises that she wishes that is what had happened but in reality her nightmare was truly beginning. She was caged in a totally desolate house surrounded by snow and an electrified fence, there was some food but there was also someone else…someone from her past…but why were they here? Why were they together? Where were they? Who had done this to them? And more importantly how were they going to escape this hell hole?
Totally and utterly isolated and while not knowing who to trust, these two have to work together to survive. It is obvious they have history but we are not let in on why or how until the book flashes back to the past. Slowly but surely their back story is seeped out and you begin to understand, their pasts are painful, can that all be put aside in the name of survival?
Senna is a novelist, so in a way she is used to her own company but she really has had a s*** life. She has never conformed, never fit in, she can come across as aggressive and this has led to a solitary, lonely existence. She is dealt blow after blow and you begin to wonder if any sane person would be able to cope. There are people that are willing to help, friendships to be made, but Senna keeps them all at arm’s length, she refuses to let anyone in no matter how hard they try or persevere. Sometimes I just wanted to jump into the kindle and slap her about a bit, I wanted her to believe in herself, believe in the intentions of others, see people for who they were and what they wanted to be, but she was so damn stubborn. She would rather have been a recluse than believe that there was a happy ever after for her, waiting for her, she wouldn’t let anyone penetrate her broken mind or heart and it broke my heart, badly!!
“The more people you let in, the more bad you let in.”
“You’ve been silent your whole life. You were silent when we met, silent when you suffered. Silent when life kept hitting you. I was like that too, a little. But not like you. You are a stillness…Your silence, Senna, I hear it so loudly.”
Flitting from past to present this book puts you through the wringer both mentally and emotionally. I was so absorbed, I felt their isolation, I lived through it and it does end up haunting you. I was thinking about this book for days. You find yourself imagining it was you in their predicament, I was forever thinking, and what would I do? The monotony, the quiet, the hunger, the lack of trust, the constant state of being scared and frightened, it has you on the edge and as much as I wanted to read about the past I couldn’t wait for the book to switch back to the present.
This is definitely a book you know you have read, but I do feel it is what I call a “marmite” book; you will either love it or hate it. If you love that suspenseful, thriller type book, you will LOVE this book. If you appreciate flawless, genius writing, you will LOVE this book. If you want your head screwed with, you will LOVE this book.
“The truth is for the mind”
“Lies are for the heart. So let’s just keep lying.”
Once again, I have to admit that Tarryn is a genius; she obviously has a “dark side” that has been put out there for all to see. I hope, like me you appreciate this book for what it is…a masterfully written, total and utter mind ****. It is highly addictive and once again I will say this needs to be made into a film. I can totally see this on the big screen.
“Every time you want to remember what love feels like, you look for me.”
Amazing job Tarryn!
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So, how to describe Mud Vein??!! Well it's not a love story, or is it??
Initially Senna displays no feelings and therefore I displayed no feelings whilst reading it. Which I thought was kinda weird as I usually cry.....at a lot of things, but I actually felt at some points I was in Senna's headspace and reacting how she was!!! However towards the end I was actually feeling despair!! So emotional and so sad that I sobbed like a baby!! So for me that is amazing writing!!!
It is also one of those stories that flips from present to past and back to present time again which for me just keeps it refreshing and interesting and me on the seat of my pants as to what's coming next. This story also makes you think!
It's not all love and mush and easy reading, no! This story grabs you by the balls and takes you on a roller coaster of a ride!! This story is not for the faint hearted. It is dark and twisted and truly heartbreaking.
I absolutely loved the female lead, Senna! For all that she goes through, in her own way she remains strong and stubborn. I also loved the male lead too, Isaac. He was just wonderful and a doctor!!!! With just a hint of bad boy, but it's his display of unconditional love that just leaves you breathless! Sigh!
Mud Vein is a gem of a read however it truly did break my heart and unlike other stories, it didn't put it back together again, therefore I am suffering a pretty bad book hangover!!
So in conclusion I loved this book even though it shredded me and I am so thankful that I have found my soul mate.
5 STARS Brilliant xxx

The main character in this book, Senna, is an author and it's her discussing writing in the above quote. This book really does say things loudly and the overall quality of Tarryn's writing is exceptional.
I really wanted to give the book 5*. I was intrigued and impressed by the writing, but at one point I couldn't believe what happened with the plot. Part of it seemed like it wasn't given as much thought as the rest of the story and left me feeling rather disappointed. Hence giving 4*.
On the whole though the book is well written and the two main characters (Senna and Isaac) are engaging and their relationship complex. You should listen to the song that Isaac puts on CD for Senna too, as it adds something else to the story.

I got to the end of Mud Vein and thought never in a million , trillion years could I write something as heart breakingly lyrical as that. The plot had the hairs all over my body stood on end from beginning to end.
If you only read romance that gives you a warm and snugly happy ever after, this book is not for you. If, on the other hand you are prepared for your world to shift on its axis grab it and devour!
Outstanding! Bravo to Tarryn Fisher.
" Birds are the only things that grow wings. We're just left to muck through the mire like a bunch of emotional cavemen."
" To find that person, to find your soul piece, or your great love, we must count on our paths diverging, the tangling of lives, the soft whispering of one soul recognizing another."
" Love is a possession,; it's something that you own from the layers of people in your life. But if my life were a cake it would be un-layered, unbaked, missing ingredients."
I wept buckets and have a new found fear of carousels.