Author: Elizabeth Scott
Annotation: Alice was kidnapped and abused and now she is waiting to die. She thought she knew how it would all turn out, but she was mistaken.
Summary: Five years ago, Alice was taken by a man in an aquarium pretending to be helping her. Alice isn't even actually Alice. All of Ray's girls are renames Alice. And the last Alice was killed when she no longer had her childlike body. She was 15. This Alice is aware that this will be her fate soon and she almost welcomes it as freedom from the sexual abuse horror that has become common place in her life. Her duty is to find a replacement for Ray. And how it all turns out is not how she envisions at all. Evaluation: A lot of books are hard to read because the thought is horrific but this is up there on the top ten list. Intense, straightforward, and sexual, listening to her story was like being a prisoner myself. The writing is simple and short of choppy, not in a bad way, but in a way that keeps you feeling short of uncomfortable. It's an interesting use of style with this subject matter. I actually had to stop reading it for a month. I had to. Then I finished it. It was difficult to be in this headspace, but it is clearly a story that needs to be told.
Bibliotherapeutic Usefulness: Getting Used to Being Abused, Sexual Abuse, Abduction, Healing, Surviving Abuse, Escape
Reason this book was chosen: I couldn't help but be curious how this book would take shape. After reading it, it was so stunning I had to bring light to it's importance. I know it's one of those books that parents or educators want to shield their children from (the horrors of life-like these) but it's reality and it may make children or teens aware and safer because of it. A must read.
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