Well this is a first …
This has never happened to me. Ever. Not ever in my life time. You’re probably wandering what I’m babbling on about, the thing is for once I have actually picked a terrible book. There I said it! I a “book reader” have actually picked a terrible book. I never thought this would happen to me but I guess it had to happen to me at some stage. It’s done and dusted now, time to show you my criticizing side.
The book I will be reviewing this week is Dolly by Susan Hill, and surprisingly it’s a horror or ghost story as they say for books. When I picked this book up I was excited about reading it since I had only read one horror/ghost story novel and I didn't even finish it, and the fact that it was written by Susan Hill. Usually the last page of the book is a posh picture (Not judging, that one of my favorite parts of a book) and a paragraph on where they grew up and where and how their life is going now. Also it says a few books they have written in the past. It mentioned that she had written The Woman in Black! I was astonished! I thought this would be the scariest book I was ever going to read, but I was one hundred per cent wrong.
There was one scary part in this book, no scratch that, there was only one creepy part in this book. That was the only good part of the book I’m sorry to say. The middle was very predictable irritating and the end was delusional, not well thought out and was not explained which I find very annoying in a book, especially if there’s not going to be a sequel to explain it for you.
The book was about an eight year old boy who’s parents died and is sent to live with his Aunty in a big, dark, scary house beside a morbid graveyard. A few days later his cousin Leonora a little nine year old girl with curls in her hair who is disobedient, spoilt, rude and well.. a brat of a child technically. Edward’s cousin gets a doll from her Aunty which she’s not happy with. While Edward is minding it he keeps it under his bed. In the middle of the night he wakes up in a shocked condition from the wind blowing through the trees but also from the sound of a baby crying, that is coming from under his bed.
One thing I really didn't like was how she changed it so much. At first they say Edward’s cousin Leonora is possessed by a demon, but then she changes it to a doll that cries in the night. The time and dates in the story I thought were way to active. It went from him being aged twenty to eight to thirty to forty in a hundred pages. Also the ending was very confusing, (warning!!spoiler!!) what happened was Edward had buried the doll in the ground and when they dug it up it looked like an old woman with wrinkles and it’s hair had fallen out in chunks. It turns out that that is how his cousins child turns out to look like, she had cancer. Then his daughter turned out like a doll that he gave to his cousin for her daughter turned out like a doll that he gave his cousin for her daughter.
I’m sorry to say that I didn't enjoy this book, It was a very big disappointment. I would recommend this book to older people maybe in there seventy’s or eighty’s, I would give this book one out of ten. Susan Hill has let me down.
