I cannot understand why I ever
step out of it."
- Marie de Sevigne -
"I have always imagined Paradise
will be some kind of library."
- Jorge Luis Borges -
(i am the circle)
and the circle is me)
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Book Review: Living Dead Girl
When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. (Description from GoodReads) Simultaneously haunting and terrifying, Living Dead Girl is one of those books you wish you hadn’t read, but are sort of oddly glad that you did. It’s beautifully written, for a topic so disturbing and terrifying.
Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared.
Once upon a time, my name was not Alice.
Once upon a time, I didn’t know how lucky I was.
Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her.
This is Alice’s story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget.
