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wildgurl's review against another edition
4.0
Mister Tender's Girl🍒🍒🍒🍒🍌
By Carter Wilson
2018
"Alice, what did the penguin always tell you?"
If you get the sudden urge to start trusting someone, be smart and do away with it.
Alice Hill was only 14 when she was viciously stabbed and left for dead in Gladstone Park by the Glissen Girl twins. The twins were obsessed by a cartoon character, Mister Tender, a popular graphic novel series created by Alice s father.
It's years later, Alice has changed her name, opened a coffee house and is beginning to really heal from her past......until she realizes she is being watched by someone who knows her very private past, knows her scars, knows her fears....Who is Mr. Interested??......what does he want??
Based on The Slender Man crimes, this is a true thriller.. it will keep you on the edge of your seat. It's creepy, It's absorbing. It's a fantastic thriller that will hold you in its grip until the end.....and stay with you long after...
Highly Recommended Thriller.
By Carter Wilson
2018
"Alice, what did the penguin always tell you?"
If you get the sudden urge to start trusting someone, be smart and do away with it.
Alice Hill was only 14 when she was viciously stabbed and left for dead in Gladstone Park by the Glissen Girl twins. The twins were obsessed by a cartoon character, Mister Tender, a popular graphic novel series created by Alice s father.
It's years later, Alice has changed her name, opened a coffee house and is beginning to really heal from her past......until she realizes she is being watched by someone who knows her very private past, knows her scars, knows her fears....Who is Mr. Interested??......what does he want??
Based on The Slender Man crimes, this is a true thriller.. it will keep you on the edge of your seat. It's creepy, It's absorbing. It's a fantastic thriller that will hold you in its grip until the end.....and stay with you long after...
Highly Recommended Thriller.
ashl215's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars. It started out a little slow, but eventually picked up. The ending was a bit of a let down.
smkean's review against another edition
5.0
This book was all about giving me the creeps. It was such a good read and very hard to put down. I really enjoyed how it kept you guessing the whole way trying to figure out who the real Mister Tender was. It makes you think a lot more about what really happens to victims of violent crimes after everything's over and how it can affect their families, everyone in this book was so damaged and deranged.
sandrareilly513's review against another edition
4.0
I could not stop reading Carter Wilson's Mister Tender's Girl. I was given the opportunity to read a short preview via the BookishFirst program and was beyond excited to have won a copy of the book from them. Mister Tender's Girl is a fast-paced thriller full of psychological twists and turns, leaving both the main character, Alice, and the reader wondering who can be trusted until the very end of the book.
When Alice was a young teenager, her father was famous for having created a cult-favorite graphic novel series called Mister Tender, based on bedtime stories he used to tell Alice and her brother when they were little kids. He had no idea how popular the evil character would become, or that his daughter would almost lose her life because of him. Alice was nearly stabbed to death by two twin sisters, her classmates, who claim Mister Tender encouraged them to kill her as their price for fame. Alice survives, yet her family falls apart. Now that she is an adult and has since moved to a completely different continent, one would think Alice could finally move on with her life. However, her past isn't far behind her -- she is being stalked, watched day and night, as she is taunted with the darkness of her past. Who is after her? What do they want? And who is Mr. Interested?
When Alice was a young teenager, her father was famous for having created a cult-favorite graphic novel series called Mister Tender, based on bedtime stories he used to tell Alice and her brother when they were little kids. He had no idea how popular the evil character would become, or that his daughter would almost lose her life because of him. Alice was nearly stabbed to death by two twin sisters, her classmates, who claim Mister Tender encouraged them to kill her as their price for fame. Alice survives, yet her family falls apart. Now that she is an adult and has since moved to a completely different continent, one would think Alice could finally move on with her life. However, her past isn't far behind her -- she is being stalked, watched day and night, as she is taunted with the darkness of her past. Who is after her? What do they want? And who is Mr. Interested?
vcb182's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
isawbigfoot's review against another edition
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
simonlorden's review
challenging
dark
tense
4.0
I had like five ideas for who the stalker could be, but I ended up liking the one it was. It almost felt like it wrapped up too cleanly, though.
I liked the "twist" on the usual story, since crazy stalkers are usually a romantic love interest, while here it was a father wanting to "protect" his daughter.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder