Living Dead Girl
by Elizabeth Scott
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Read in May, 2008
The person who gave this book to me told me that it pushes the YA literature envelope. I smiled and thought, of course it does, doesn't everything these days? How wrong I was to trivialize his statement. This book really does push the envelope. It makes you feel uncomfortable. It makes you think - about horrible things. It is impossible to put down, and yet, the subject matter is so powerful and so difficult to stomach that if you don't take a break every once in a while, you risk being cr...more
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Read in June, 2008
I read this book in less than a day. It is short, but it packs a punch. Very disturbing, very haunting, and very poignant. It follows "Alice" who has been kept by a sexual predator for the last five years after being abducted when she was 10 years old. The way the author describes "Alice's" unimaginable abuse, without being too gory or sensationalist, draws you in and really makes you embrace her character. The disturbing nature of the book makes you want to put it down,...more
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Read in March, 2008
Living Dead Girl is the first-person narrative of a girl who's been kidnapped at the age of 10 and held captive, abused and molested by a man, Ray, for five years. The writing is more stream-of-conciousness than anything else, and disturbing yet very moving. Stories like this always captivate the country - like the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping - and this book should also captivate in the same macabre way. It's almost painful to read, yet you can't help but finish it quickly as you want to know wha...more
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Read in May, 2008
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teenagers
This book is superbly well-written, taut, suspenseful, unforgettable, unputdownable.
It is also completely horrifying, and if I were a parent, there is NO WAY I would have been able to read it. Oh, and I am going to have nightmares.
Teens who like "problem" books - Go Ask Alice, Crank, Child Called It, Lovely Bones, etc, will eat this up.
It is also completely horrifying, and if I were a parent, there is NO WAY I would have been able to read it. Oh, and I am going to have nightmares.
Teens who like "problem" books - Go Ask Alice, Crank, Child Called It, Lovely Bones, etc, will eat this up.
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Read in May, 2008
This is a YA novel, but it blew me away in a way that Lolita and Lovely Bones may have if you combined the shock of one and the profoundness of the other.
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