#BookTalk- Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott

This book is intense and emotional story about captivity. This book gave me chills and made my heartbreak, as I read more and more about Alice's captivity. Alice has been kidnapped by an older man, Jay, to be his lover...at the age of ten. She has been captive now for five year, and she believe now her story will finally come to an end, but things don't go to plan.



Character

Alice. My heart just squeezes tighter and tighter as I read more about her torture. I was rooting for her to runaway, to be saved..anything that would allow her to escape. She is so wounded, and starved that escape seems impossible...is impossible for her.


Plot

The book goes in and out from present to past, as it sets up the past five years. Alice endures great hardship and it is just gut wrenching that anyone would have to go through something so terrible.

All in All

This story carries that voices of many girls in captivity. Alice's voice carries volumes, as she tell a story of harrowing circumstances. This book is not for everyone, it just hits you, and scares you. It shows you how dark humankind can be. I read this book becasue it was only 170 pages, but now I am ready to read something super fun and happy. Somethings that makes me optimistic about humankind.