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| Original Title: | Baby Doll |
| ISBN: | 0316268712 (ISBN13: 9780316268714) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Lancaster, Pennsylvania,2015(United States) |
Hollie Overton
Hardcover | Pages: 281 pages Rating: 3.81 | 11426 Users | 1643 Reviews
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For fans of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, Baby Doll is the most tense thriller you will read this year.Held captive for eight years, Lily has grown from a teenager to an adult in a small basement prison. Her daughter Sky has been a captive her whole life. But one day their captor leaves the deadbolt unlocked.
This is what happens next...
...to her twin sister, to her mother, to her daughter...and to her captor.
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| Title | : | Baby Doll |
| Author | : | Hollie Overton |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 281 pages |
| Published | : | July 12th 2016 by Redhook |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Mystery. Fiction. Mystery Thriller. Adult |
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Ratings: 3.81 From 11426 Users | 1643 ReviewsJudge Containing Books Baby Doll
Update: 10-23-16. Kindle book $2.99. Not sure for how long. ***MILD SPOILERS***--->EXCERPT<---A dead bolt has a very specific sound. Lily was an expert at recognizing certain sounds--the creak of the floorboards signaling his arrival, the mice scurrying across the concrete in search for food. But Lily always braced herself for the sound of the dead bolt, listening as metal scraped against the metal. The lock as beginning to rust, so it always took him several tries. But inevitably, sheHad to DNF this one at 60% hence no rating- the writing is great by the way but the story did not grab me personally. I liked the original premise but for ME it was heavy on melodrama. I think this will be a stand out read for a lot of lovers of pyschological thrillers who like something a bit different. Sadly for whatever odd reason did not resonate with my reading head.
Good idea, failed execution.The book felt like one of those Lifetime dramas, all overwrought and ridiculous. The multitude of voices felt rushed and superficial, not one character behaved in a realistic fashion, everyone seemed most concerned about their love lives, the whole thing was drawn out too long.If anything, it was rather pointless. The strapline said the escape being just the beginning. Yeah, it is. The he's arrested. Then another thing (spoiler-but not really because you can see it
This is the thriller after the thriller. Most books end with the hostage escaping her torturer's clutches, but that's where this one starts. This is about what happens when a victim returns home to people who have changed in her absence and how they adjust to how she's changed. This is what happens after the prayers are answered: bring my daughter/sister/friend home. Because it's never just as simple as coming home.Lily spent eight years trapped in a basement by a sadistic pedophile. The only
Find this and other Reviews at In Tori LexI was concerned when I started this book because there was ALOT of exposition within the first few chapters. But the changing of perspectives in the novel and suspense sucked me in. The novel rotates between the perspective of Lily the protagonist, her twin sister Abby, Eve her mom and Rick her captor. The multiple perspectives worked well because they were mostly between the two sisters. The author did a great job of making me care and root for Lily and
Baby Doll had so much promise and I was really excited to start reading it. The synopsis made it sounds fabulous. I quickly felt that the book was not giving me the buzz factor that a book in this genre should.A young woman has been held captive, tortured, raped and beaten against her will by a man she should have been able to trust. Locked away for years one day she realises she can run for her freedom...and she does.The story then concentrates on how things are with her integrating back with
I dont know why I havent learned my lesson about reading books that claim to be the next Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train. Why do I keep doing this to myself? I only end up disappointed.I have to wonder if the person that wrote the blurb for this book has even read either of those books. I would have to say not, because there is no comparison. Aside from the first few chapters, there is nothing surprising about this plot. There is no shocking revelation or exceptional plot twist that makes
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