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Fabulous, creepy idea. Insufficient, boring delivery. Totally not what I expected. I try to give myself 30 pages to like a book before abandoning it. This one started off slow and needed the time for character formation so I gave it a chance. Within the low 100 pages, I felt like dumping it and I should have. It was a mess of crap. The overuse of dashes, in the beginning especially, was very annoying. The first few chapters were confusing because they were titled with the characters' names. It was hard to tell if that chapter was from that character's point of view and it took a few paragraphs or pages to figure out that it was actually more of an introduction of that character. The characters had little substance and needed more development. There was little to like about the main character because we knew so little about her. The story was boring in the beginning and I had hope that it would get good once they entered the Dollhouse, but nope, boring middle and boring end as well. My head felt like the scraping sound made by Jessamine and the Dolls during midnight. The situations in the Dollhouse were tedious. I understood, at one point, they were needed to show the stuck-in-a-rut activities of a Doll but it just seemed to drone on and on, not really adding anything to the plot. This part was torture for the characters and the readers. A lot of things didn't make sense. There was a lack of explanation, leaving a pivotal question unanswered throughout the entire book--WHY? Maybe the next books explain WHY but any answer seems far-fetched. Cliffhanger? Yes, there was one but it was easier for me to quell my curiosity of an ending by thinking all the characters just died. It was harder to imaging they would live through that. End of story.


Tags : Dollhouse [Anya Allyn] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A dark, Gothic, Young Adult Mystery. ~*~ Four teenagers chance across a mysterious, crumbling mansion in the depths of the mountains. - One of them is about to vanish. - One of them is lying about what they know. - None of them will escape the fate awaiting them in the terrifying Dollhouse beneath the old mansion--a world of nightmarish horrors and insanity. ~*~ Six months ago,Anya Allyn,Dollhouse,CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform,1475034725,FICTION Fantasy Paranormal

Dollhouse Anya Allyn 9781475034721 Books Reviews

I found this book difficult to finish. Oh, I thought it was interesting enough most of the time up until about the 80 per cent point on my . Suddenly a story that made me curious as to what was going on just shifted gears and it seemed the last fifth of the story had been turned over to a middle schooler to finish. The revelations about Lacey and Jessemine just seemed silly, but what really cooked this story for me was the fourth tunnel. Really? This not terriblly bright heroine figured this out and then executed a great escape? That would have been laughable had I not just spent hours getting to this point where the pay off turned out to be something a seventh grader could have dreamed up while staring out a classroom window instead of paying attention. There were no likable characters in the book, but still I kept reading for the idea was interesting, but the author just seemed to keep tripping over twists in the plot that made no sense. I know that in stories dealing with the supernatural you have to open up and be willing to suspend belief, but when you do, the author is then obliged to give you a reason for going along with the story. This author did not. I think maybe the first two thirds of the book was pretty good, but then fell apart. Also, I knew it was book one of a series but absolutely nothing was resolved in book one. Nothing. I won't be reading the other books in this series.
Let me preface this review with the admonition that this is a review NOT a book report like so many reviewers write. This is not to give an over view of the plot, an exploration of the characters or to give my opinion on what the author was trying to say.

A book review is the reviewer's opinion on why they did or didn't like the book, what type book it was and whether they would recommend it. For the short answer, it's a young adult suspense, though anyone could read it, it's long, somewhat verbose, w/a story line that's a little too much to believe. It's part of a trilogy, which isn't a bad thing in itself, but the author didn't write a standard trilogy with each book independant of the others, the characters still connected. Instead she wrote a long, long, book that stopped w/no ending. This is more like a cliff-hanger serial. Recommend it, not really, but if you want a long read, that has some suspense, spookiness and highschool kids, sure. Especially if you want a really long read, that will take 3 books to get the answer.

The book is set in New Zealand and features high school students and high school angst. There's a disappearance of one of the friends and what follows is a story of looking for the friend and a confusing spooky paranormal situation. I don't want to give too many details in case you want to read it. I will say that the cover is not really appropriate for the book, just something to get your attention.

At first you are drawn into the suspense, the search for the missing girl, the mysteries of other missing girls and the weird house. But after they find the mysterious location, it gets erratic. The book seemed to drag on, giving details of the same activities, day after day, over and over. After a while, you'll start skimming the pages waiting for something to happen. It was unclear in a lot of areas as to what was "real". and no clear explanation why the victims just go along w/the program day upon day w/o trying to escape, then suddenly one day make their move.

Their "prison" was so over the top, it sounded like something a bunch of kids would come up with when trying to outdo each other in story telling, or perhaps a disjointed nightmare. In one story you have ghosts, buried treasure, mythology, possible pedofiles, circus props, underground caverns, children being kidnapped, I could go on. There were too many elements in one story, both in the prison's description,as well as in the villians. After a point, the only reason I kept reading was to finish, and see if the author could somehow redeem the story. Instead, she brings the story to a "cliff hanger", and then says if you want to read more, read the next book. Since this is a trilogy, if you read book, 2, you again apparently won't get an answer, you'll have to go to book 3. I couldn't bear the thought of going on to book 2, starting in the same location all over again, who knows how much longer.
Fabulous, creepy idea. Insufficient, boring delivery. Totally not what I expected. I try to give myself 30 pages to like a book before abandoning it. This one started off slow and needed the time for character formation so I gave it a chance. Within the low 100 pages, I felt like dumping it and I should have. It was a mess of crap. The overuse of dashes, in the beginning especially, was very annoying. The first few chapters were confusing because they were titled with the characters' names. It was hard to tell if that chapter was from that character's point of view and it took a few paragraphs or pages to figure out that it was actually more of an introduction of that character. The characters had little substance and needed more development. There was little to like about the main character because we knew so little about her. The story was boring in the beginning and I had hope that it would get good once they entered the Dollhouse, but nope, boring middle and boring end as well. My head felt like the scraping sound made by Jessamine and the Dolls during midnight. The situations in the Dollhouse were tedious. I understood, at one point, they were needed to show the stuck-in-a-rut activities of a Doll but it just seemed to drone on and on, not really adding anything to the plot. This part was torture for the characters and the readers. A lot of things didn't make sense. There was a lack of explanation, leaving a pivotal question unanswered throughout the entire book--WHY? Maybe the next books explain WHY but any answer seems far-fetched. Cliffhanger? Yes, there was one but it was easier for me to quell my curiosity of an ending by thinking all the characters just died. It was harder to imaging they would live through that. End of story.