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The Cellar
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The #1 New York Times bestseller!
A gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines, twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling thriller author Natasha Preston!
Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her—and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out...
Teen thrillers also by Natasha Preston:
Awake
The Cabin
You Will Be Mine
The Lost
The Twin
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The Cellar
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The #1 New York Times bestseller!
A gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines, twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling thriller author Natasha Preston!
Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her—and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out...
Teen thrillers also by Natasha Preston:
Awake
The Cabin
You Will Be Mine
The Lost
The Twin
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This made me cry multiple times. I was also wildly uncomfortable (which was the point) almost the entire time I read it. Very well written, I felt connected to the girls and grew to greatly care for their well-being and survival. The author did an incredible job delving into the mind of the villain, who was so mentally ill and corrupt I don’t even know where to begin on character analysis. I read this in two days and couldn’t stop myself from finding every free moment I could to try and finish this. At times, even I felt like the prospects of escape were impossible and bleak. Summer (the main character) has the kind of spirit and strength some of us can only ever dream of having. 10/10. Well done.
Rating: 5I loved this one a whole lot! I was hooked from beginning to end.
Rating: 5
Great book! Really enjoyed the plot and characters, but the ending could have been different
Rating: 5
I REMEMBER WHEN THIS WAS FIRST POSTED ON WATTPAD! I absolutely loved it then, even when it was less edited and more rough (even the characters names were different ). I am so happy to see this here, and absolutely stoked for the author’s success .
Read it! This is a great book.
Rating: 5Read it! This is a great book.
I think everyone on Goodreads covers it when they address the crying of Summer, the subpar writing, how awful this book is, and so on. I can't do much better with my own words other than repeating Summer sucks, this book does not have up to par writing, and I have no idea how anyone can ever want to read past book one for pleasure and not masochism.
Rating: 1This is the most devastating book, and I loved it. I don't even know what to do with myself now.
Rating: 5Suspense engraved into this novel was amazing!! Every turning page left you clinging on to the question, "What will happen next..", if you're one for an edge on a mix of thriller and the elegance of young love then this is the book for you! I am currently a senior and have picked up a hobby of reading and stumbled across this book, now i look forward to reading all of Natasha Preston's novels which intrigues me to my interest to indulge in on my free time! Hands down, my favorite author, i urge everyone to read her other books! Having just read "Awake" by Preston in the matter of two days, this novel will have you on an emotional roller coaster and wanting more of her timeless creations.
-From her #1 fan of all time, completely obsessed!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 5-From her #1 fan of all time, completely obsessed!!!!!!!!!
The story may very well have been a good one, if the reader can ignore the awful writing. I am unable to do so. Simplistic, choppy sentences were poorly constructed and gave me the same feeling as being told a story by a 4 year old...without the creative imagery or descriptions. There were grammar and spelling errors, galore. It was as if the author weren't really trying. Was this edited? There are so many errors that should simply not exist in a novel. Wander and wonder are two different words, for goodness sake. It really makes me sad. I devoted my life to education and am seriously concerned for kids if this is the literature they're being exposed to.
Rating: 1 I recieved a copy of this book from the publisher for an exchange for an honest review O.M.G. I absolutely loved this book! I knew when I first read the description fo this book I was going to love it!16 year old Summer was kidnapped by man when she was out looking for her friend that stormed off mad at her boyfriend. This man took Summer to the ?cellar? where she found 3 other girls waiting for her.Clover, the man who took Summer, re-named the girls he kidnapped to flowers. Summer is now called Lilley and there are Rose, Violet, and Poppey. Clover is dead set on having the ?perfect? family and thinks he has that with these girls.In this ?cellar? the girls are forced to shower twice a day and keep the ?cellar? clean since clover hates germs and dirt. The girls are also faced with abuse if they do not do what clover asks and also forced into rape once clover falls in love with them.This book bounces off the views of Summer (aka Lilley), Clover (the kidnapper) and Lewis (summer?s boyfriend). This books spans about 1 year since the abduction of Summer. You get to feel the real emotion the family of Summer feels about not finding Summer and the ?lack? of concern from the police department after so many months. I was so in love with Lewis for not giving up on Summer and always believing he was going to find her. *** mild spoiler**I wish they couldn?t have rushed into the rescuing. I would have and still would like to know how they got rescued. Did clover say something when he was being questioned by the police? Did Lewis break back into clover?s house and find the ?cellar?? I HATE unanswered questions!But it does feel and appear to be a second book?!Lets hope so!
Rating: 5The Cellar written by Natasha Preston is about a girl name Summer who is 16, but is kidnapped by murderer, known as Clover. Everyday in the cellar she stays with Rose, Poppy, Violet, and takes the name Lily from her kidnapper. The same routine, Get up, shower, eat as a 'family', clean, and shower again. Any mess up can result in death like Violet, or the Lily before her. Every moment her boyfriend, Lewis, looks for her refusing to give up. One day, she prays to be found, to be free from this psychological torture.... As a second violet came, Lily and her planned their escape but Violet tried to soon resulting in a broken rib. However once the investigation led them to him he tried to kill all the them,they were saved but Violet and Rose died in the hospital, while Clover went to prison. Poppy, Rebekah, began dating Summer's brother Henry. However both Rebekah and Summer know that he is a really good faker and once he gets out he's going to want his family back... I love this book and is one of the best book I ever read. First written on Wattpad, a public site to share stories, it began to get many votes and was later publish by her. Suspense builds up in every chapter making you bite your nails to find out if she makes it. Lewis' loyalty in finding her is beautiful and amazing. Rose and Poppy's actions make the story build up on excitement and makes it seem like they have been 'brainwashed'. The fact that Clover hasn't been caught with his murders, make you feel like that maybe they won't make it. This had me up for hours trying to find out what was going to happen in the next chapter. Defiantly a good book to read if you get a chance, it can be added to your library in Wattpad, or bought online.
Rating: 5This was the best book I've ever read!! I would highly recommend it for 12+
Rating: 5I had been wanting to read The Cellar for a long time and had high expectations for it. Maybe my expectations were too high, but it certainly did not meet them.The story of Summer's time locked in a cellar were chilling, but I couldn't bring myself to like her at all. She had a very limited vocabulary and it seemed that almost every sentence contained the same words. Not that that's bad, but in this book it made it very hard to connect to the characters. Summer's constant complaints about Rose were very annoying. After about three times saying the same thing about Rose, I wanted to tell Summer to just drop it. "What a freak." I don't know why, but this sentence really made me less interested. It appeared so many times in the book and it just made me want to put the book down for good.Clover was explained pretty well through the chapters from his point of view. But I didn't like those chapters much, if at all. To me, they seemed overdone. These chapters almost made me feel sorry for Clover, even though he doesn't deserve sympathy. Out of every character, I hated Lewis the most. Yeah, he was concerned about his missing girlfriend, but he was highly over-dramatic, even to the point of violence. I realized he just wanted to find summer, but he was so immature and his chapters were almost impossible to get through.I liked the idea of the story and the basic storyline, but the story wasn't delivered in a way that I could connect with or enjoy.
Rating: 2Amazing
Rating: 5Literally trash. SO POORLY WRITTEN. Was this book just not edited at all??? There are so many typos, tense switching, and misuse of words, I just don't understand how this draft got published. Regardless of the terrible grammar, the story is incredibly boring. I would not recommend.
Rating: 1Ugh. I had high hopes for this one based on a review I read. However, I know now that the review must have been from a middle-school-girl. It has been a few months, but I recently read "The Butterfly Garden" by Dot Hutchison, which is a story along these same lines. Abducted girls who are deemed "perfect", kept by a seemingly normal older man, and the latest addition is very young. When I got to the part where he names them after flowers and eventually has sex with them, I stopped. There was nothing compelling that I could read, especially at 347 pages, that would interest, intrigue, or captivate me that I had not seen a thousand time. It's practically every third "Criminal Minds" episode. So, skip this one. Read "Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" instead. It's better written, more visceral, and you will be more apt to read the series than anything you will find here. Not recommended.
Rating: 1This was one book that I was very hesitant to read as I'm very interested in true crime and I thought this would be a little over the top mystery. I was very wrong. This is a chilling, edge of your seat kind of read, and I did not want to put it down!Summer, a 16 year old girl, gets kidnapped by a man who continually calls her "Lily". From then it shows the progression of how Summer/Lily deals with her captivity and just how big of a creep the man who kidnapped her really is. This book is twisted and dark but I found it so captivating to not only read from the victim's point of view but also her boyfriend's and the kidnapper's. That was able to bring a whole new light to the book and really be able to see the story from every angle. Great read!
Rating: 4