Title: Living Dead Girl
Author: Elizabeth ScottPublisher: Simon Pulse
ARC, 170 pages
Copyright: 2008
VOYA Review:
"5Q 4P...Scott creates a heart-breaking and shattering novel that goes deep into a terrifying world without ever being lurid or gruesome. The horror of Alice's tale is in its matter-of-fact presentation. Ray's behaviors--as vile and deviant as they are--come with an eerily rational explanation. Even more disturbing is how little anyone around Alice and Rays sees, how willing they are to accept Ray's story that he is Alice's father and that she is home-schooled because of special needs. There are no happy endings here; readers learn the horrors Ray himself faced that shaped him into the monster he is, and they see in Alice how easily transformation can happen. Scott does a tremendous job of showing the pervasive sexual and physical abuse Alice suffers without being graphic. If anything the subtly of the descriptions is even more haunting than a detailed description would have been. This book is one of those rare novels that is difficult to read but impossible to put down and should not be missed." -- VOYA
Summary:
Summary:
Plot: Alice is kidnapped by Ray when she is ten years old. For five years, she is starved, abused, raped, and threatened. She recounts her daily life and her desperation to escape from Ray.
Major characters: Alice and Ray
Major Subjects: Realistic Fiction, Suspense, Kidnapping
Booktalk by Elizabeth Scott:
[video] http://www.simonandschuster.com/multimedia?video=6625375001
Review:
Favorite line(s): Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines.
Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn’t know how lucky I was. ~ pg. 5
Review:
Living Dead Girl reveals a fearless account about a young girl who is trapped in a merciless world where she is tormented and abused. Alice is faced with her own death over and over again, either by her captor’s hand or by her own. Following her terrible choice to trust the man she later learns to be named Ray, she faces many life or death choices for the next five years. Intense, violent, and graphic, Living Dead Girl is not for the faint of heart.
Reading Level: Beginner
Notes about Audience:
This book is intended for mature readers, ages 16 and up.
Opening line: This is how things look: Shady Pines Apartments, four shabby buildings tucked off the road near the highway. ~ pg. 1
Favorite line(s): Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines.
Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn’t know how lucky I was. ~ pg. 5
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