I liked this
book. I thought it might have needed more emotion, a little less action,
more explanation, and it would have been much better it there was an
epilogue. Overall, though, I liked it.
Some bits of the book were totally
awesome:
*there was a creepy doll made of a
little girl's corpse
*the main characters had to go on a
creepy quest to Ohio
*the doll could move and do things
that were so creepy!
There were also things that could
have been improved.
There could have been more
explanations: Why did some people see the doll (known as the Queen) as a real
person? For instance, in the diner ("Table for four?"),
and on the bus ("I'm not talking to your blond friend!"), and at the
donut place (I can't remember the quote, but what the man said was something
close to, "Your blond friend looks hungry, here's a donut.") The
man on the bus could have been crazy, it wouldn't surprise me. After all,
he was talking about aliens. Then there was the man at the donut
shop. It didn't seem like he was kidding, and if he was, he was really
convincing. What about the lady at the diner? Did she really think
the Queen was a person? Who knows and, without the author explaining, we
will never know.
There was maybe too much
action. I know that the main character was a boy, and in boy books there
tends to be more action than emotion, but with two-thirds of the main
characters being girls, it would have better with more emotion.
It wasn't exactly clear who was the
main character. I think it was Zach. Alice and Poppy were just his
friends.
The book left many questions unanswered.
Was it the Queen who wrecked their
campsite? (I would say yes, but I would love if there was something
paranormal.)
Were the people just pretending that
they thought the doll was real? (The guy on the bus was crazy, no
question about that, but what about the other people? The world may never
know...)
How did the Queen get into the
girl's bathroom trashcan? Did Poppy really just go to the bathroom and
leave the doll there by accident? I would hope that the doll moved, but,
if she didn't wreck the campsite, I would have to say that she was left in the
bathroom.
Why did Eleanor's (the Queen's) father
turn her body into a doll!? (If he really missed her so much he should
have given her a proper burial.)
The first 160 pages went by very
slowly. The last thirty pages rushed by so fast it didn't make
sense!
I guess I couldn't really identify
with anyone. The characters all either ran away from home, stole, or told
each other's secrets like they were nothing!
I found all of these traits to be out of character for me so much that I
couldn't really relate to people who acted that way.
I liked the book. It wasn't
the creepiest horror novel I've ever read, but it wasn't the worst.
Three and a half stars. Four
if there's a sequel with all the secrets revealed.
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