Living Dead Girl
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3.9 • 34 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fans of Scott's YA romances Perfect You or Bloom may be unprepared for the unrelieved terror within this chilling novel, about a 15-year-old girl who has spent the last five years being abused by a kidnapper named Ray and is kept powerless by Ray's promise to harm her family if she makes one false move. The narrator knows she is the second of the girls Ray has abducted and renamed Alice; Ray killed the first when she outgrew her childlike body at 15, and now Alice half-hopes her own demise is approaching ("I think of the knife in the kitchen, of the bridges I've seen from the bus... but the thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating"). Ray, however, has an even more sinister plan: he orders Alice to find a new girl, then train her to Ray's tastes. Scott's prose is spare and damning, relying on suggestive details and their impact on Alice to convey the unimaginable violence she repeatedly experiences. Disturbing but fascinating, the book exerts an inescapable grip on readers like Alice, they have virtually no choice but to continue until the conclusion sets them free. Ages 16 up.
Customer Reviews
Disturbing, but freshly written, gripping
An easy, fast-paced read not for the squeamsh.
If there is abuse in your past, you will recognize the terrain in this novella. If there isn't, you might not like learning about this new world.
So true to life, I am not sure I want to know about the author's life, past life, hurts, pains. Amazingly true to life.
A dark, disturbing read that is so well-written, you cannot resist the siren call of the next page.
Be prepared.
Beautifully Written
This book is amazing. It feels as though you are actually there, Living her life.
Though this book is on a heavy subject, I Absolutely adored it, and its one of my favorites.
I loved it and would read it again in a heartbeat! <3
Definately Reccomended!! <3 <3 <3