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lindsayrose06 's review for:
Girl A
by Abigail Dean
TW: Child Abuse, Suicide, Self-injurious behaviour
To protect the identity of the six children who escaped the ‘House of Horrors,’ they are given anonymous titles. ‘Girl A,’ Lex was is the oldest girl of the Gracie house and the one to escape and get help for her siblings who were found chained, starved, and beaten in their rooms.
Girl A – the one to escape.
Now an adult and successful New York lawyer, Lex is called back to London to deal with Mother’s death in prison and is named executor of her will, which contains a bit of money and the house where it all happened.
Lex must track down her surviving siblings and have them sign off on turning the house into the one thing their parents would’ve hated – a community center.
There are a lot of polarizing reviews on this novel. It’s a did not finish or a must-read. There seems to be no in between. I loved it. I read it in a day without meaning to.
It was sitting on my kitchen table waiting to get to the top of my TBR, and as I was sitting there waiting for the oven to preheat, I decided to read the first couple of pages, which was the end of me and any responsibilities I may have had.
I think what threw people off is the use of ‘thriller’ – this was not a suspenseful read, the only actual mystery storyline I had figured out pretty quickly.
It is a story of survival and growth. I appreciated that Abigail Dean chose not to deep dive into the details of the abuse the children experienced. She also lets us determine if Mother was evil or an abuse victim herself. She touches on the criminal case that lands Mother in jail until her death but doesn’t spend much time there.
She was clear on where this story was to take place and kept us situated solidly in the future with perfectly placed flashbacks.
I will always recommend this book, but I think it’s important to stress this is not the suspense/thriller you expect. There are no deep twists or unexpected story arcs.
If you go in with these high expectations on what this book isn’t, you may leave disappointed.
To protect the identity of the six children who escaped the ‘House of Horrors,’ they are given anonymous titles. ‘Girl A,’ Lex was is the oldest girl of the Gracie house and the one to escape and get help for her siblings who were found chained, starved, and beaten in their rooms.
Girl A – the one to escape.
Now an adult and successful New York lawyer, Lex is called back to London to deal with Mother’s death in prison and is named executor of her will, which contains a bit of money and the house where it all happened.
Lex must track down her surviving siblings and have them sign off on turning the house into the one thing their parents would’ve hated – a community center.
There are a lot of polarizing reviews on this novel. It’s a did not finish or a must-read. There seems to be no in between. I loved it. I read it in a day without meaning to.
It was sitting on my kitchen table waiting to get to the top of my TBR, and as I was sitting there waiting for the oven to preheat, I decided to read the first couple of pages, which was the end of me and any responsibilities I may have had.
I think what threw people off is the use of ‘thriller’ – this was not a suspenseful read, the only actual mystery storyline I had figured out pretty quickly.
It is a story of survival and growth. I appreciated that Abigail Dean chose not to deep dive into the details of the abuse the children experienced. She also lets us determine if Mother was evil or an abuse victim herself. She touches on the criminal case that lands Mother in jail until her death but doesn’t spend much time there.
She was clear on where this story was to take place and kept us situated solidly in the future with perfectly placed flashbacks.
I will always recommend this book, but I think it’s important to stress this is not the suspense/thriller you expect. There are no deep twists or unexpected story arcs.
If you go in with these high expectations on what this book isn’t, you may leave disappointed.