Living Dead Girl is a disturbing book about a girl who was kidnapped at age ten from her school field trip. Five years later, we find the girl, "Alice," still living with her kidnapper under the false pretenses to outsiders that she is his daughter. Her kidnapper, Ray, has a thing for little girls - Alice isn't his first. He molests her, beats her, threatens her with her life and her family's life and starves her to keep her in true little girl shape. Alice has succumbed to this lifestyle and accepts that she may never leave it. She knows that the Alice before her was killed when she turned 15 and "grew up" too much for Ray. Ray has now started talking about finding a new girl - will Alice help find her replacement? Can she escape him? Is she too broken inside to ever have a life again?
Graphic, sad and unbelievably horrible - this one is a page turner. Highly recommended especially for those who like books about abuse.
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