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Chargement... Living Dead Girl (original 2008; édition 2008)par Elizabeth Scott
Information sur l'oeuvreLiving Dead Girl par Elizabeth Scott (2008)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Here's the thing. This book was well written. I just could NOT stomach the content. it was the most horrifying thing that I could imagine, and I'm sure it's a reality for some very unlucky people, but I had a very, very hard time reading it. It is only for people with iron stomachs, and I thought I had one! A frightening, disturbing, and gripping read. The author gets right inside character's head and the stark way the book is written offers just enough explanation as well as leaving just enough horror to the imagination. I like that Ray's background is explored a bit, showing the reader how he became the way he is. I find the ending a bit too dramatic and a bit predictable but it is fitting. Besides a peek inside the mind of a kidnapped and abused girl, I'm not sure what this book offers to young readers, since there's no real lesson here (not that there needs to be) and it seems more to be about shock value. Still, this was an addictive read, the kind of book that you can't put down (and it certainly is slim enough to finish in one sitting), and the story haunts you long after you've finished it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Horror.
Young Adult Fiction.
HTML: Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her. This is Alice's story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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A ten-year old girl, renamed Alice, goes with a man while on a field trip to find her class but ends up kidnapped. The novel takes place five years later. In those five years, "Alice" has been sexually, physically, and mentally abused. There are not details, but an older reader will know what happened and is happening to her. It's not graphic, but it is tragic. The reason for the story taking place at this moment is that she no longer looks like a little girl. He won't feed her and insists she squeeze into little girl clothes. He needs a new little girl. "Alice" finds a girl at a park who has a brother. She gets to know the girl's brother and gives him confidence with girls by treating him as she treats her captor, sexually pleasing him. Once again, you know what's going on, but there are not details. She desperately wants to get another girl in hopes that she can escape. She learned with one attempted escape that her family will be murdered if she leaves; after all, he's done it before. The new little girl can take the abuse; "Alice" has suffered enough.
I do not like true crime novels. I would never read a fiction novel like this, wondering if it belonged in a high school library. I feel it has a lot of triggers. With that said, this is a book a non-reader will read. It's short; it's tragic; it's "real life." We want students to read. This novel would have a niche audience, meaning it would serve more people who are older. ( )