Driven - Fred Alvrez

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Title: Driven
Author: Fred Alvrez
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 186
Date read: January, 2019

She’s young, beautiful, and living a life of the idle rich in Los Angeles. Mia Turner appears to have it all. Then on what starts out as a normal Rodeo Drive shopping trip, she gets into an autonomous cab to take her handbag dog to the vet. But someone has hacked her vehicle and there’s no escape, no one to hear her scream.

A grueling cross-country trip follows, but it’s not only the hijacked cab she wants to escape. Disturbing childhood memories feed her nightmares during the trip from hell, and a kidnapper’s hidden agenda may help or hinder her – she doesn’t know which.


I really enjoyed "Driven" and finished it in just two sittings. As with most suspense novels, it's hard to review this book without giving any spoilers away, so I will have to leave it at that it's a quick and fun read with quite a few twists and turns I hadn't seen coming. I was impressed that Fred Alvrez could find a way to write about a 50-hour drive that still made for interesting reading - despite the passenger being locked inside the car!!

While Mia came across as a spoiled brat at the start of the book, I really grew to like her, as I got to know her better and realized her reasons for acting the way she did. For once I would actually quite have liked the epilogue to have been longer to see what happened next.