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Beschreibung
Escapar fue solo el comienzo.
Raptada a las puertas de su instituto, Lily ha estado aislada del mundo durante ocho años. Ha dejado de ser adolescente para convertirse en una mujer en la pequeña prisión del sótano en el que vive. Su hija Sky no ha conocido otra vida.
Pero, un día, su captor olvida echar la llave a la cerradura.
Esta es la historia de lo que sucede luego...
... a Lily, a su hermana gemela, a su madre, a su hija y a su secuestrador.
Reseñas:
«Esta fascinante primera novela empieza donde la mayoría de los thrillers acaban... Overton no deja de presentar giros, vueltas y sorpresas que hacen que el lector no pueda dejar de preguntarse qué demonios va a pasar a continuación.»
Publishers Weekly
«La historia de la recién liberada Lily y de su hija se mueve a ritmo vertiginoso desde el momento en que denuncia a su raptor, provocando un verdadero terremoto en la vida de su desconcertada familia. Muy bueno.»
Stylist
«Un thriller psicológico absorbente.»
Daily Express
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
She kept moving forward. She didn't stop. She didn't look back.
Lily has been abducted from outside her high-school gates. For eight long years she's been locked away from the outside world. During that time she's changed from a girl into a woman. She's had a baby. And now she has seized her chance and escaped. Running for her life, with her daughter in her arms, she returns to her family and the life she used to know - to her much-loved twin sister Abby, her mum, her high-school boyfriend - and her freedom.But is it possible to go back? Lily's perfect life as a teenager doesn't exist any more. Since she's been gone, her family's lives have changed too, in ways she never could have imagined.Her return, and the revelation of who took her, will send shockwaves through the whole community. Impossible not to read in one sitting, Baby Doll is a taut psychological thriller that focuses on family entanglements and the evil that can hide behind a benign facade.
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Beiträge
Ein sehr guter Roman mit Thrillerelementen, der auf eine angenehme Weise turbulent ist, sehr spannend und sehr intensiv in manchen Momenten. Man fiebert mit, man fühlt mit, man ist total in der Geschichte gefangen und die Charaktere halten einen einfach immer bei der Stange. Diese sind sehr unterschiedlich, interessant und vielseitig gestaltet und beleuchtet. Sehr schöne Arbeit der Autorin. Auch der Schreibstil ist sehr gut, schön zu lesen, spannend. Die Ausgangslage des Romans ist auch äußerst spannend und bietet viel Konfliktpotenzial, welches auch genutzt wurde. Auf eine gute Art. Im Grunde genommen bin ich sehr begeistert von dem Buch und kann nicht mehr dazu sagen, als dass man es lesen sollte, wenn man sich auch nur annähernd für das Genre oder die Gegebenheiten der Handlung interessiert. Es ist klasse.
Extrem spannend, fantastisch erzählt
Eigentlich hatte ich mir gar nicht so viel erhofft, aber habe mit diesem Buch eine echte Thrillerperle erwischt. Die Figuren sind unglaublich gut durchdacht, die Handlung ist spannend, voller Wendungen. Ein echter Pageturner und eines meiner Lesehighlights in diesem Jahr.
Thanks to Netgalley and Random House UK, Cornerstone for the digital reading copy. The premise was so great and I was really looking forward to reading this but unfortunately this book failed in so many ways for me. One major problem were the characters. The book is told from several different perspectives and I think this is the main reason why the characters felt absolutely distant and I wasn't able to connect with oder understand any of the characters. They couldn't touch me at all, although some bits of the story are utterly heartbreaking. Another big problem is the lack of emotion. As I already said, the story is really devastating and heartbreaking but it could just never get to me. I think this is also due to the lack of information. Everything concerning the abduction, the escape and the aftermath is told in a very shallow way and at the same time there are tons of unimportant little things. The topic about dealing with the abduction is really interesting but I never had the feeling that the characters had very big troubles and it didn't get into details with this. To me the book was very boring and dragging most of the times. There was absolutely no thrill in the story and everything felt way too easy. In the end it got a bit more interesting and there were some surprising turn of events but all in all everything felt very unspectacular.
Beschreibung
Escapar fue solo el comienzo.
Raptada a las puertas de su instituto, Lily ha estado aislada del mundo durante ocho años. Ha dejado de ser adolescente para convertirse en una mujer en la pequeña prisión del sótano en el que vive. Su hija Sky no ha conocido otra vida.
Pero, un día, su captor olvida echar la llave a la cerradura.
Esta es la historia de lo que sucede luego...
... a Lily, a su hermana gemela, a su madre, a su hija y a su secuestrador.
Reseñas:
«Esta fascinante primera novela empieza donde la mayoría de los thrillers acaban... Overton no deja de presentar giros, vueltas y sorpresas que hacen que el lector no pueda dejar de preguntarse qué demonios va a pasar a continuación.»
Publishers Weekly
«La historia de la recién liberada Lily y de su hija se mueve a ritmo vertiginoso desde el momento en que denuncia a su raptor, provocando un verdadero terremoto en la vida de su desconcertada familia. Muy bueno.»
Stylist
«Un thriller psicológico absorbente.»
Daily Express
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
She kept moving forward. She didn't stop. She didn't look back.
Lily has been abducted from outside her high-school gates. For eight long years she's been locked away from the outside world. During that time she's changed from a girl into a woman. She's had a baby. And now she has seized her chance and escaped. Running for her life, with her daughter in her arms, she returns to her family and the life she used to know - to her much-loved twin sister Abby, her mum, her high-school boyfriend - and her freedom.But is it possible to go back? Lily's perfect life as a teenager doesn't exist any more. Since she's been gone, her family's lives have changed too, in ways she never could have imagined.Her return, and the revelation of who took her, will send shockwaves through the whole community. Impossible not to read in one sitting, Baby Doll is a taut psychological thriller that focuses on family entanglements and the evil that can hide behind a benign facade.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
Ein sehr guter Roman mit Thrillerelementen, der auf eine angenehme Weise turbulent ist, sehr spannend und sehr intensiv in manchen Momenten. Man fiebert mit, man fühlt mit, man ist total in der Geschichte gefangen und die Charaktere halten einen einfach immer bei der Stange. Diese sind sehr unterschiedlich, interessant und vielseitig gestaltet und beleuchtet. Sehr schöne Arbeit der Autorin. Auch der Schreibstil ist sehr gut, schön zu lesen, spannend. Die Ausgangslage des Romans ist auch äußerst spannend und bietet viel Konfliktpotenzial, welches auch genutzt wurde. Auf eine gute Art. Im Grunde genommen bin ich sehr begeistert von dem Buch und kann nicht mehr dazu sagen, als dass man es lesen sollte, wenn man sich auch nur annähernd für das Genre oder die Gegebenheiten der Handlung interessiert. Es ist klasse.
Extrem spannend, fantastisch erzählt
Eigentlich hatte ich mir gar nicht so viel erhofft, aber habe mit diesem Buch eine echte Thrillerperle erwischt. Die Figuren sind unglaublich gut durchdacht, die Handlung ist spannend, voller Wendungen. Ein echter Pageturner und eines meiner Lesehighlights in diesem Jahr.
Thanks to Netgalley and Random House UK, Cornerstone for the digital reading copy. The premise was so great and I was really looking forward to reading this but unfortunately this book failed in so many ways for me. One major problem were the characters. The book is told from several different perspectives and I think this is the main reason why the characters felt absolutely distant and I wasn't able to connect with oder understand any of the characters. They couldn't touch me at all, although some bits of the story are utterly heartbreaking. Another big problem is the lack of emotion. As I already said, the story is really devastating and heartbreaking but it could just never get to me. I think this is also due to the lack of information. Everything concerning the abduction, the escape and the aftermath is told in a very shallow way and at the same time there are tons of unimportant little things. The topic about dealing with the abduction is really interesting but I never had the feeling that the characters had very big troubles and it didn't get into details with this. To me the book was very boring and dragging most of the times. There was absolutely no thrill in the story and everything felt way too easy. In the end it got a bit more interesting and there were some surprising turn of events but all in all everything felt very unspectacular.