Take a photo of a barcode or cover
A review by debyc
The Dollhouse by Sara Ennis
4.0
I have been going back and forth between a 3-star review and a 5-star review for this book. It's quite a range: I found a lot of it "enjoyable" (as enjoyable as a book with child kidnapping and abuse is), but I found aspects of it to be too far from what I could believe as acceptable.
14-year old twins, Angel and Bud, have been kidnapped and brought to a basement known as the dollhouse. Alfred, their captor, wants to take pictures of them based on picture of his own childhood. By recreating his memories, he hopes that these new memories with his 'dolls' will help him to overcome the pain he experienced in his past.
This book did a good job of tying together a whole story, and I was surprised to read at the end of the book that there will be a sequel. I am ready to leave the world of the dollhouse and its characters behind- obviously, I haven't read the sequel, but I feel that a book 2 would diminish the events in this story.
I have SO many questions about things that JUST DON'T MAKE SENSE. At one point of writing this review, I had about 4 paragraphs of complaints, but then realized that even with these complaints, I enjoyed the craziness of this story. I recommend this book for horror and suspense fans- some of the stuff in this book was truly horrible, but based on the plot description, it should be expected.
Thank you Netgalley and Sara Ennis (are you self-publishing?! How neat!) for an advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for a review. Although I'm not interested in the sequel, I look forward to reading another book by Sara Ennis in the future.
14-year old twins, Angel and Bud, have been kidnapped and brought to a basement known as the dollhouse. Alfred, their captor, wants to take pictures of them based on picture of his own childhood. By recreating his memories, he hopes that these new memories with his 'dolls' will help him to overcome the pain he experienced in his past.
This book did a good job of tying together a whole story, and I was surprised to read at the end of the book that there will be a sequel. I am ready to leave the world of the dollhouse and its characters behind- obviously, I haven't read the sequel, but I feel that a book 2 would diminish the events in this story.
I have SO many questions about things that JUST DON'T MAKE SENSE. At one point of writing this review, I had about 4 paragraphs of complaints, but then realized that even with these complaints, I enjoyed the craziness of this story. I recommend this book for horror and suspense fans- some of the stuff in this book was truly horrible, but based on the plot description, it should be expected.
Thank you Netgalley and Sara Ennis (are you self-publishing?! How neat!) for an advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for a review. Although I'm not interested in the sequel, I look forward to reading another book by Sara Ennis in the future.