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    Frozen Charlotte

    By Alex Bell

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    Dunvegan School for Girls has been closed for many years. Converted into a family home, the teachers and students are long gone. But they left something behind... Sophie arrives at the old schoolhouse to spend the summer with her cousins. Brooding Cameron with his scarred hand, strange Lillias with a fear of bones and Piper, who seems just a bit too good to be true. And then there's her other cousin. The girl with a room full of antique dolls. The girl that shouldn't be there. The girl that died.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStripes Publishing
    Release dateOct 1, 2014
    ISBN9781847155047
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    Alex Bell

    Alex Bell always wanted to be a writer, but embarked upon a law degree as a back-up plan, and spent her free time at university writing six novels. She is now the bestselling author of several YA horror novels including Frozen Charlotte and Charlotte Says. Alex is also the author of the Carnegie Medal nominated middle-grade adventure, The Polar Bear Explorers Club.

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    • 4/5
      This was surprisingly enjoyable!! It's like a better-written Fear Street book and it took me back to reading all those scary paperbacks when I was a kid. It didn't skimp on the evil or the gore, the ghost story was actually more layered than I expected and the writing was fluid and engaging. It was fast-paced but that lent itself to the story and the MC/narrator was likable and surprisingly logical for a teen in a horror story. Definitely recommend for people who like quick, good scary reads.
    • 2/5
      Took me forever to finish it because I found it so boring.
    • 4/5
      This book definitely put me in the Halloween mood! Although I knew where the plot was going from the start, the story had enough believable twists to make me second-guess my assumptions. This was a quick, enjoyable read that made me remember my fear of Chucky and distrust of porcelain dolls. I recommend it with 3.5 stars (rounded up to 4 stars).
    • 3/5
      Although the plot had its flaws, "Frozen Charlotte" was quite a creepy book. Even though it is for YA readers, I would be careful who I recommended it to as it dealt with death, evil dolls, psychopaths, supernatural occurrences and demon possession. Those little Charlotte dolls were pure evil and gave me chills down my spine. However, there were twists and turns, shocks and surprises along the way which kept this reader turning the pages, and I liked how each chapter started with another verse from the "Frozen Charlotte" poem. A dark, unsettling novel that will appeal to younger readers who enjoy a good scare, but not for the faint-hearted!
    • 5/5
      Honestly this was the first book I’ve read in years, it was a wonderful pace from start to finish!
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this creepy little story! A random research tangent on 'Frozen Charlottes' - little china dolls based on a Victorian ballad about a woman who froze to death driving to a ball in winter without a coat - brought up this irresistible title, which I had to read, YA or not. Thank you to the author for such a fast, gripping and darkly entertaining tale, which I raced through in a few hours.Fifteen year old Sophie goes to stay with her uncle and cousins after the tragic death of her best friend, but finds that the family's isolated old school house on the Isle of Skye is far from the peaceful escape from grief that she was seeking. After losing Rebecca in a clifftop accident seven years earlier, the Craigs are struggling to cope and seem to be cursed by further ordeals - the mother has been hospitalised after a breakdown, son Cameron was badly burned in a fire, and youngest daughter Lillias is terrified of the collection of small dolls kept in her lost sister's room, the 'Frozen Charlottes' found in the basement of the house. Sophie believes that Rebecca is haunting her, but who is the true evil spirit in Dunvegan House?The writing and the story were both so simple and yet effectively paced that I was drawn straight into Sophie's life - possibly the only detail I would have preferred to skip was the animal cruelty. The ouija board opening was instantly convincing because who hasn't been terrified at school by the combination of trickery and hysterical teenagers? The frozen charlottes and the old schoolhouse might just have scored a first, however - 'horror' novels never scare me, but this one definitely spooked me a little! I also enjoyed the way in which Cameron, Piper and even the ghost of Rebecca are played against each other in the possessed psychopath stakes - who can Sophie trust?Vastly enjoyable and destined to become a Netflix adaptation. I will definitely try more books from the Red Eye series!
    • 4/5
      it was creepy but in the best possible way. I read it in less than 2 days, I couldn’t stop reading!!

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    • 2/5
      This had the potential to be truly creepy, but it just threw everything out there, which didn't allow for any suspense to build. There's also a lot of inconsistency in the character of Rebecca, who is by turns evil and menacing or scared and sweet and helpful. In fact, all of the characters have personalities that change when it's convenient to the plot for them to do so. There is no subtlety to this novel at all—it just throws everything on the page which, for me, doesn't work in a ghost story with creepy dolls. I want subtlety and menace and building dread and didn't find it here.

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    • 5/5
      Let it be known that I love horror/thrillers. Movies, though. I never read books of that genre, though it's not so much a conscious decision as it's just me focusing on other genres. This book kept catching my eye in the school library, so I finally picked it up in celebration of it finally being my favorite month (October).

      I honestly have no complaints about this book. It hooked me immediately, it never dragged or felt drawn out, some scenes actually managed to creep me out (though I wouldn't call them scary), I enjoyed Sophie's character quite a lot, and the twisted relationships between the Craigs were fascinating. The descriptions of expressions and reactions were really spot on.

      Sure, haunted dolls aren't really a new concept, but that didn't detract from the story, and there were plenty of other facets to the plot.

      I genuinely enjoyed this read.

      I suppose I'm only left with one question, and that is, "So what really happened to Jay?" We're led to believe that Rebecca's ghost was responsible for it for much of the book, but then Sophie realizes she's trying to shed light on her death and help the rest of her family. Does this mean she (Rebecca) killed Jay to get Sophie to come to the Craigs' house? Or was it just a coincidental accident? It doesn't make sense for it to be Piper or the Charlotte dolls.