Frozen Charlotte

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Throughout the month of ‘Spooktober’ I’m reviewing creepy reads, so make sure the check out the rest of my posts. Motivated by a giant spoiler, Sophie heads off to the Isle of Skye to stay with the cousins she hasn't seen since she was young.

These dolls are no bigger than a matchbox, but have hauntingly painted faces and were supposedly invloved in the death of one of the girls at the school.Yet, there were two main problems I had with it: halfway through it became predictable and the ending didn't give me answers to all the questions I had. I don’t want to give anything away, but I found most of the characters extremely unsettling, which I think is a great strength in this genre… you don’t read horror for a relaxing and comforting ride with a predictable bunch of people!

Brooding Cameron with his scarred hand, strange Lilias with a fear of bones and Piper, who seems just a bit too good to be true.

I'm torn on whether I would recommend this book, since the subject matter could possibly offend or bother some. In this extract from the book we join Sophie as she first steps off the ferry onto the Isle of Skye and meets her Uncle James and cousins Piper, Cameron and Lilas.

Every so often there was someone else's you'd suspect as the disturbed one until a certain point where you think "okay now I've got it, y'all can't trick me into suspecting anyone else anymore! he much-anticipated prequel to the bestselling FROZEN CHARLOTTE, a Zoella Book Club title in Autumn 2016. I really enjoyed the blend of modern day with the past, as the haunting begins through an app but the terrifying consequences feel much more historic. I have found that modern technology often ruins much of the suspension of belief that the reader contributes to a historical horror, and a younger character set can often be synonymous with tame horror.The storyline in this revolved around the frozen Charlotte dolls, and Sophie’s increasingly strange cousins. There is a huge climax towards the end of this book that had my heart pounding and I thought the ending was really sweet too.

Although the story was simple, with little description or elaboration, it was easy to read and I honestly don’t think the story needed anything else – it was captivating and exciting. When Sophie and Jay play around with an ouija board app that Jay has downloaded to his phone, things go awfully wrong.I’ve had Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell sat on my book shelves for a while now, but for some reason I just never got around to reading it. I felt like it was obvious when the character named Piper was introduced with her innocent schemes that didn’t fool me twice as there was something wrong about her and with the mother’s disappearance, a girl’s death and those creepy Charlotte dolls involved it all laid with Piper. It will have you sat at the edge of your seat until you finish the last page, and the story will stick around long after that too. Sophie eventually will learn that there is a villain present who may be working with the dolls, and her own situation becomes ever more precarious.