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A review by sorrel
Close Your Pretty Eyes by Sally Nicholls
5.0
Books can break your heart. That was something I learnt early on. Sometimes they break your heart with one or two enormous impacts that shatter your heart into a million pieces. Other times it tears it up into a couple of pieces. And sometimes, just sometimes, it breaks your heart all the way through; steadily hammering at your heart until it crumbles.
That is what happened in Close your pretty eyes.
Close your pretty eyes is the story of eleven year old Olivia. She has spent her life moving from foster house to foster house and she had a horrible early childhood that has left her... well I don't really know how to describe it. Anyway, she moves into a new house with a new family. A house that the prolific mass murderer Amelia Dyer lived in. Olivia wants the placement to work out but things are very much hindered but the appearance of Amelia's ghost.
I thought that this book was going to be really creepy. And some of it was. I couldn't actually read some parts at night because they made me far too scared. But the majority of it wasn't scary. Just sad and interesting.
Some of the things Olivia did made you want to walk through the pages and shake her, but at the same time you understood her and just wished that someone would get through to her. Can't wait to read ways to liver forever.
Fantastic book- five stars.
That is what happened in Close your pretty eyes.
Close your pretty eyes is the story of eleven year old Olivia. She has spent her life moving from foster house to foster house and she had a horrible early childhood that has left her... well I don't really know how to describe it. Anyway, she moves into a new house with a new family. A house that the prolific mass murderer Amelia Dyer lived in. Olivia wants the placement to work out but things are very much hindered but the appearance of Amelia's ghost.
I thought that this book was going to be really creepy. And some of it was. I couldn't actually read some parts at night because they made me far too scared. But the majority of it wasn't scary. Just sad and interesting.
Some of the things Olivia did made you want to walk through the pages and shake her, but at the same time you understood her and just wished that someone would get through to her. Can't wait to read ways to liver forever.
Fantastic book- five stars.