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Behind the Red Door by Megan Collins
4.0

Fern knows that face on the news, but how? Has she ever met Astrid Sullivan? She can’t remember, but that face feels so familiar, in fact, that might be the face from her nightmares. While helping her father Ted pack up for his move to Florida, Fern starts reading the book Astrid wrote about when she was abducted and held in a basement with a red door. All the sudden Fern is feeling like this story sounds all to familiar, was she the other girl Astrid mentions in her book? Why can’t she remember?

Oh man, poor Fern had some messed up parents. Her dad ran “experiments” to test fear in his hopes of someday being known for his psychological work. He was awful from page one. This book kept me waiting to figure out when Fern’s memories would come back and what has actually happened. Who had taken Astrid, and where is she now? I did figure out who had taken Astrid as a child daily early, and I also figured out what had happened to Astrid today, but even though I had a good gut feeling, this book still kept me riveted until the last page.