The Collector

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The mom is the only parent in this situation but she's barely there. She's an obstacle at best and somehow siding with Josie every time that Josie has a complaint or problem to the point that she takes the other daughter's toys away at worst. Het boek leest heel vlot, is beeldend geschreven en heeft fijne korte, begrijpelijke, zinnen. Door de mini-cliffhangers aan het eind van ieder hoofdstuk, ben je al snel geneigd om door te lezen. Perfect dus voor de jeugd, maar ook zeker perfect voor volwassenen.

While I don't usually read middle grade books, I had shamelessly enjoyed Follow Me by K.R. Alexander and thought I'd skim through this one. Grandma Jeannie got three rules when Jossie with her mom and younger sister Anna forced live in to there grandma's house as there mom lost her job, One, never leave your windows open after dark, even if it’s hot. Two, no dolls in the house. And three, never, ever go by the house in the woods. That’s where Beryl lives. So that's how there grandma warned them. The story immediately go straight to the point and from the first chapter it just hooked me up and I just couldn't put it down. This book to me was so addictive that I had to finish it in just one seating as if I got no choice. The truth is I didn't want to out the book down until I dinish it...

The Collector

Tijdens het lezen voelde ik continu een bepaalde onderhuidse spanning. Je wéét dat er wat staat te gebeuren, maar je weet niet wat en/of wanneer. Ik vergat echt even de wereld om mij heen. En je weet pas dat je écht in de ban van een boek bent, als je schrikt van een gillend kind buiten. Speciale geluidseffecten voor tijdens de spannende stukjes, zullen we maar zeggen. Haha. But then things begin to happen and the beautiful woods seem to be calling Josie which would cause her to break grandmother’s rules! Then there is her new friend, Victoria. She invites Josie to her house where Josie discovers her grandmother’s rules may not be so crazy!

De voorkant van het boek trekt eigenlijk meteen al aan en ziet er doodeng uit. Brrr, poppen, zie meteen een scene van zo’n horrorfilm uit mijn hoofd, waarbij de pop tot leven komt. Doodeng. Maar goed, de cover matcht perfect bij de inhoud van het boek. Het verhaal is vlot geschreven, bevat fijne personages en heeft zeker genoeg griezelige elementen voor een echt horrorverhaal. But then Josie makes her first friend at school, a girl named Vanessa. Vanessa is kind, cool, and a vegetarian just like Josie. She lives alone with her aunt. Who collects porcelain dolls. And whose house just happens to be located in the woods, and look just like the one in Josie and Anna's nightmares. But surely it's just a coincidence. Naturally by the end everything is resolved and somehow everyone is okay even though Anna is still isolated and alone save her family. The magic doesn't leave but it has an almost cliffhanger but we know it's a one-off so it's just an open-ended story.Je kunt je voorstellen dat ik hélemaal in mijn nopjes was toen ik hoorde dat @kluitman met een opvolger van deze serie zou komen. The book is written like we should blame Anna for causing the problem but if Josie spoke up at any moment we would have the problem fixed because Anna would know what was erased from her memories. But Josie just can't have a civil conversation with her sister at all. Now that's what I call a horror ghost story when it includes with my forever nightmare thing Doll too. I just hate Dolls and Mannequins or Clowns too. They give me the load of total creep and nightmare. Even though I couldn't help but kept reading when it is about them, yeah you can say I want to face my fear? Well my answer is it has something more then just my fear. Damn...

Dolls are creepy enough but THESE dolls are on a whole other level. Pair that with a seemingly-senile grandmother, a mysterious new friend, whispering winds and a dark woods, and you have Josie and Anna's new life. Find out what happens to the girls by reading this awesome book!Written very much like a Goosebumps book this also suffers from the goosebump plot problems. For one we have Josie who is the sister who spends the entire book being mean, her whole thing is she knows something but she won't share that something, so she blames her sister and is a mean jerk about it the entire book. Josie has no redeeming traits to her. Like she yells at her sister Anna constantly, blames her every time something goes wrong, and suspects her so much that she can't have a normal conversation with her. All while refusing to tell her why she's upset and basically causing the problem.