By: Lorna Dounaeva
“He looks at me, not with lust, with horror.”
I picked this book up because @msmichelledawn said she read it and she was mad. I wanted to see what the book was all about, so I picked it up too. The main character in this book is Taylor Applewood. She gets stalked by a group of 6 sisters. It gets to be more than just stalking when they stand outside of her house, throw eggs at her mother, break car windows, and somehow get into her house to do nefarious acts. So the family goes away to a secluded cabin for Christmas thinking they won’t be followed. Well, they were wrong, and the sisters toyed with what was in Taylor’s stocking. So we are left to wander, who are these girls and why are they doing this? How do they get it to stop?
This is a really fast read. The chapters aren’t too long and there is a lot going on. It definitely kept my interest and I wanted to keep reading. That being said, there were things about this book that really made me go “What?!”
The book is told using mostly two points of view, though we do get a third at some point. It’s told through Taylor and her mother, Joy. Joy and Howard, Taylor’s dad, do call the police. However, the police tell them to record things and they kind of just brush it off – or at least it felt that way. Joy and Howard were writing down incidents in a book, which if fine. BUT WHY NOT RECORD WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?! Wouldn’t that be better? There is a character in the book that mentioned watching TikTok, therefore, it’s set in recent years, so recording should have not been an issue. Just some other choices and decisions that were made by the family, especially the parents, were really questionable. If you’re being followed, why go to a secluded cabin?! At some point they found a store and was hoping it was open so they could call the cops, the store was closed. Why not break the window to get to the phone?! There is a reason they were desperate to call the cops, but I don’t want to give anything away.
I won’t say that I didn’t like the book, because I did. I just was mad and confused at some of the choices made. But I guess that’s a good thing that I had such a visceral reaction – better than being bored without caring!
I’d love to hear your thoughts, give this book a read and let me know!
Publish Date: December 14, 2024
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