Book Review - The Voice of Waterfalls - Natasha A Salnova

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Title:  The Voices of Waterfalls

Author: Natasha A. Salnikova

Review:   Wow…what a life this young women had for a few months.  I cannot imagine escaping one nightmare just to end up in another.  Inga is a strong female character caught in something much larger than her.   The book flowed well and I was wanted to know what was going to happen.  I had a hard time putting the book down and even when the supernatural aspects started I still wanted to keep reading.

I found myself hugging my daughter and telling her to never go anywhere with a stranger and then I hugged my boys.  This is a scary book and I don’t just mean the supernatural portions.  I think the real life, kidnapping, and sex trade were much worse.  Not everyone in this world is a nice person and I think that we need to realize that, well if you read this book you sure will.  Maybe Inga was extremely naive or in my opinion she was very much like many young people who have lived sheltered middle class lives.

The story was good, I loved the damaged lawyer and even with his problems he found things worse then what he was going through.  I think that anyone would enjoy this mystery/thriller/supernatural book.  The last few pages had me in tears.  Check this one out when you get the chance, you won't be disappointed.

Publisher: Published October 6th 2011 by NAS

ISBN: 2940013256057

Copyright: 2011

Pages: Kindle Edition

Quick Review: 4 stars (out of 5)

Why I Read It:  Sent by the author for review.

Synopsis: Inga manages to escape from a "house of terror" where she was held as a captive along with other girls who were kidnapped. She is chased into the woods and runs onto the road, almost falling under the wheels of an approaching car. She thought, it would be better to die that way than to return to her captors. The driver of the car, to her surprise, saves her. He brings her to his house and introduces her to his family: his mother, his father and his younger sister. He gives Inga a key to a separate room and brings her food. She appreciates his help and calls him her knight from the road. All she needs now is a phone to make a call to her mother. Her savior, Alman, says they don't have one in the house. He's also not in a hurry to take her from his house in the woods to the town where she can talk to police. And Inga began to doubt the noble intentions of her savior. After some time she starts to think this house is worse than the one she was imprisoned in before, if that was possible.

Author Biography: Natasha A. Salnikova was born in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan where she wrote and hosted two TV shows. At the age of 24 she moved to Moscow (Russia) to chase her screenwriting dream. Soon she became a writer for the national prime-time talk show “Tema” and soon also was writing for national sitcoms and dramas. At that time a publisher hired her to adapt a popular TV series into a novel, and Natasha realized that she could fulfill her writer’s hunger better with novels rather that TV scripts.

In Moscow Natasha met an American writer and traveler and in 2001 she made a big decision and moved to America to be with him, leaving behind her career and family. They married in 2001 and she started to build her American dream. She had acting roles in TV commercials, shot photographs for a Knopf/Random House travel guide, studied English and kept wiring.

In 2005 Natasha and her husband David invited into their lives two beautiful girls.

Currently Natasha lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with her kids and her husband. She writes feature stories for a Russian newspaper and teaches yoga. “Quiet River” is her first novel in English. Natasha’s favorite writer is Steven King, who influenced her work in many ways, including the genre she’s writing in.

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