Andrew Neiderman
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Out of the Attic (Dollanganger, #10) 1 exemplaar
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- 1940-10-26
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So where do I start? First off Sharon is really a limp dish rag of a person. She trust her husband so much that even though he is making terrible decisions, she thinks oh yeah he says it's a good decision. But at the same time she can't escape him. If she broke up with him where would she go?
Within the first six pages we find out that she's basically dependent on him and he is the breadwinner who can choose who lives and who dies. It's a horrifying life to be so dependent you have no way out and the only way out might ruin your reputation and take you down to homelessness. That's horrifying. He has her by the purse strings. So from the get-go you know that Alex has all of the power in this relationship. They don't even want kids but Alex suddenly decides he needs kids and he just starts plucking them out of the foster care system and raising them. It's almost like he needs to make an army and I don't doubt that he would have picked up a fifth or sixth kid down the road.
It seems like Alex's father is a oddly abusive but good guy in this book and that threw me for a loop. I don't really write this book high. It's a complicated thing did I read this book really fast and enjoy all of it? Yes and no. I enjoyed reading the book but the characters really annoyed me.
It feels like we would have a little bit more investigation into these murders and deaths. I don't know, but usually they investigate the neighbors and the people who were last seen with them and all that stuff and none of that really happens. It's only Sharon who suspects but also is in denial so she's an unreliable investigator in this whole thing. She's also utterly limp and easily plied.
Weak willed woman in writing always seem to come off as they have no spine and no will until the very last moment of the very last scene and then suddenly they are possessed or they are snap to attentiveness and know what needs to be done. This book is no different. I wish she had a bigger spine earlier on and had just started standing up to him but he had done it anyway, because then it would have made her rebellion at the end very obviously about to happen but also totally not just a spur of the moment random spine growth.
I am constantly torn between saying I hate her and that I have met characters and people actually like her in real life and I hated that. I hate that she's an actual character that I have met in a real person. I hate that this kind of person exists. And reading about them always works me up because I don't like to imagine these people existing and just doing stuff like this. Being in these kind of relationships. But it happens. It's awful.
At the end of the day I ended up here because the cover of the book that I got looked like it was a Chucky knock off or a pre-existing Chucky book. And Chucky was never based off of Robert the haunted doll so I wanted to see if this was where he came from. It was likely not in anything but the cover, but it was an interesting journey and I did not fully hate the book I just found it terrifying in a way of I've seen too many lifetime movies and true stories go this way and I did not like how this went. Gave me a little bit of a Children Of The Corn Energy. Very eerie.
3.8 stars.… (meer)