The Book Depository Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
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Description: Living Dead Girl : Paperback : SIMON & SCHUSTER : 9781416960607 : 1416960600 : 08 Sep 2009 : Abducted when she was only 10 years old, Alice has endured five years of indescribable physical and mental abuse. Trapped in the tiny world her abductor, Ray, has created for her, Alice prays for death. Instead, something worse happens: Ray commands Alice to find him a new girl. The Book Depository Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781416960607
MPN: 1416960600
GTIN: 9781416960607
Author: Fableofdreams
Rating: 5
Review: Hellow, I think this is probably the hardest book I ever had to review, not that I had too, but I really wanted to do it, because is just one of that cases, that this just deserves to be talked about, deserves to be read, even if you hate it or love it. I must say that what dragged me in was the tittle, being a big Rob Zombie's fan, Living Dead Girl, it's not something i would skip on without giving it a second look, ( yeah, bash on me, a industrial-metal song was what drove me in this book ). When I finally saw what this was about i knew i wanted to have it. This book it's not something you can just sit and read, the writing style it's exquisite, amazing, you will have to stop, and think about it several times, and then start again, because you have to stop but you can't stop, you have to know what is happening next to this girl. I love the way that the main character is developed, she's so ignorant in most things, things that make sense, because of how she was raised, and yet she has totally conscience of what is going on around her, and she manages to be strong, but not cliché/fake strong, but not the victim-please-save-me-style either. There is this sentence that describes it perfectly : "She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago." I must say i admired an important point of view that the author added to the story, the one where people always keep expecting for a victim like this to shout out, to ask for help, and end up almost blaming all this living dead girls for what happened to them? This is just as stupid and the old memo of "You dress like a slut , you want to be raped!". Thank you for that. How can you say you love a book that describes so much hurt? How can I say this is was for sure my favourite contemporary book of all times so far, when this take you into such a disgusting reality? Because things like this do exist, because the world it's not just happy romance, and paranormal love triangles, and even if I didn't mind to search what were the experiences hers or others that the author got through to write this, I admire her work, because this took me in like no other book did in a long time, and i was hurting with Alice every second of the way, this is not something all authors can do. Congratulations Elizabeth Scott, this is beautifull in the most darkest of ways. Regards. Yours Sincerely, SkeletonOrchid
Author: becki
Rating: 2
Review: This book was very short and I probably wouldn’t have spent £5 on it had I known - it provided only an hour or so of reading and it wasn’t particularly immersive. I believe the prose is intended to replicate the linguistics of an uneducated and traumatised teen but even still - it means descriptions and semantics are limited. Chapters are very short and there’s a lack of something. It’s not a terrible read but there are far better books in the theme of shock value and the grotesque that cater to readers that appreciate the immersive read.
