Living Dead Girl
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4.2 • 510 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
In the vein of What Girls Are Made Of and The Lovely Bones, this searing young adult novel follows the harrowing experience of a kidnapped teen whose long-time captor has grown tired of her.
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.
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
Gut wrenching
This book was incredibly hard to read and I had to put it down a few times just to take a breather. It was captivating, but not for the weak hearted.
Mixed emotions
Disturbing and wonderful at the same time made me feel sick to the stomach at some points
Wow
Wow... That is all I can say. There is no words that can describe the emotional depth to this book. One of those rare books that really changes your perspective. My mouth hung open the entire time when I read this, it was so sad. But the rawness of this book was to shocking to make me cry.