Frozen Charlotte

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The mysteries around the school itself begin to come to light when Sophie sets out to uncover what is really going on here. I found myself asking during the duration of the time I spend reading this book, whether or not the dolls were actually alive and scary as hell. I mean, there had to be some kind of explanation, right? You would think so… After a tragic event in her life, Sophie heads to her uncle’s home which was previously a school for young girls. While she is there, she tries to solve the mystery of the death of her cousin Rebecca… Yet Rebecca still lives in her room of antique dolls. Frozen Charlottes. Story and Narration there was something a little disconcerting about having a dead girl gazing at you from every angle . . ."

I can't give more than 3 stars about it because it didn't surprise me. I had a good time while I was reading it, but that's it. In my view, this is not a bad book, just weaker than the first one. As a child, while many of my friends were scared of clowns and ghosts and big, angry dogs... I was terrified of aliens and porcelain dolls. I'm sure it was due to being introduced to horror films and The X-Files at a very young age, but I digress. I knew my fear of bug-eyed aliens was still dormant somewhere in there, but I really thought I'd made it past being bothered by dolls until reading this book. NOPE! A wondrously haunting and modern thriller, Frozen Charlotte drips with mystery and madness, secrets and survival, and the chilling sense that the impossible might be all too real.

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When fifteen-year-old Sophie's best friend dies abruptly under mysterious circumstances, Sophie sets off to stay with her uncle and cousins on the remote Isle of Skye. It's been years since she last saw her cousins -- brooding Cameron with his scarred hand; Piper, who seems too perfect to be real; and peculiar little Lilias with her fear of bones. I thought this was a pretty good book. Very dark covers everything from death, suicide, ouiji boards, evil dolls, demonic spirits, crazy families, secrets, possession, hauntings ect. It's not a read for the faint hearted.

Sophie anticipated her stay with her cousin to provide a few weeks of freedom and fun. However, haunted by the tragic death of her best friend and the spooky circumstances that led up to his demise, she arrives bringing more baggage than just her psychical ones. Her cousins, already consumed by their own grief, have no room to support any more. Since the death of their sibling Rebecca, years before, the family has forever been fractured, and Sophie had no idea how deep the fissures run. Now the smiling cousins she remembers from her youth are sombre and burdened individuals. And Sophie is left to repair both the memory of this once-happy family as well as discerning the particulars of her best friend's death, alone. But maybe she isn't as alone as she first thought... Whilst on a similar theme and in the exact setting of the original tale, the historical period allowed this to become an altogether different story. The dolls that haunt Frozen Charlotte are beginning to become attuned to their potential here and a larger focus of the book is centred entirely around them. An instantly gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller filled with haunted dolls, creepy settings, and horrific twists. I really enjoyed writing both Cameron and Lilias because they’re both unusual characters with a lot of personal demons. They have quite a special relationship so I especially enjoyed the scenes where these two feature together. Frozen Charlotte is a perfect example of why I so frequently say that horror written for kids and teens is often much scarier (and darker) than it's given credit for. We have twisted little possessed dolls, a child who wants to cut out her own bones, and a mysterious death that is both tragic and concerning from the start — and it all takes place in an immensely atmospheric old manor overlooking a seaside cliff. I mean, what more could I have asked for?There's something about this book that sets it apart from so many other YA horror novels. Generally, YA horror novels are often cliche and silly, rather than creepy and scary. But this book was not at all cliche or silly. I don't get scared or spooked, but this book definitely was something that had me uneasy throughout.

There's a scene where a character from Frozen Charlotte makes a very short appearance and I didn't really get what it means. Probably they can see the future? I don't know. Same with the first book, I didn't really care much about the romance in the story.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. Cameron is broody. Piper is perfect. Lilias is strange. And Rebecca? Rebecca is dead. Not one to learn from past experience, Alex started the Legal Practice Course in London. There she met some great people and had a lot of fun messing about during lessons that were clearly meant to be extremely solemn affairs. Thankfully, she dropped out just before the point where all students must submit to the personality-removing process that is a compulsory part of being an esteemed member of the legal profession.

This book is absolutely fantastic as far as horror novels go, and I’ll be the first to admit that I had to put it down multiple times because I was too spooked to keep reading (I refused to even read this book before bed because I was so creeped out). It definitely had plenty of scary stuff going on, so if that’s your thing, it’s on you won’t want to miss out on. Frozen Charlotte is a book about a young girl named Sophie who has an unfortunate event which occurs in the first part of the story; the unexpected death of her friend. I don't usually find books creepy these days. I'll get to the end and think to myself, 'You think that's scary? Come and sleep a night in my nightmares!' Yet Charlotte Says was delightfully creepy, best read at night when the house is silent and you can hear the creaks from the house settling and the wind rustling through the trees. This book comes with a fairly significant death toll and some really disturbing and detailed descriptions of actual and fantasised about violence against animals.

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The very thought of the Frozen Charlotte dolls--figurines designed to replicate a foolish woman who froze to death as a result of not bundling up before going out into the frigid night--is enough to give me a shiver. However, these particular figures are so much more . . . haunting. Everyone in the Craig family has something about them. But while of the characters in the story were just as well written as Sophie and Rebecca but a few of them like Sophie’s supposedly best friend, Jay, was not given much time to develop. I would have liked him to have matured more. Overall Thoughts