If she was a more developed author when she wrote this then I think it would've been a lot better. I really liked the idea of the story, but there were some confusing and annoying aspects:

1. I don't understand Clover. I don't understand how something like your father cheating on your mother (it's not small by any means but seriously??!!) would cause you to kill every single woman you see in tight clothes and automatically consider them trash. IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO YA KNOW! He did have some serious Mommy issues and she was a heavy influence on what he did, and near the end when he was close to getting caught it was her words ringing in his ears.

2. I was a little confused about Layal, the very last Violet. It was almost like she wasn't even there for a while and then one day Clover asked how she was doing.
Clover constantly made me roll my eyes, and Rose was so brainwashed to the point that she pretty much killed herself without Clover. I didn't understand her at all. I think she genuinely liked him, it wasn't all based on fear and survival with her, and I can't wrap my head around that. I see a lot of people hating how emotional Summer was. It does get a little repetitive, but she was clearly severely depressed.

3. It was super long, the same things over and over again. I understand that they're stuck in a cellar and there's only so much for them to do, but I could've skipped a lot of it and not missed any of the story. What you really see is Summer turning into Lily and somewhat accepting it. That was pretty interesting to see, but I think you still could've had that without it being a 350 page book. It put me in a slump and I was only finishing it to see how he was caught, they weren't very clear on that either and it was pretty disappointing and anticlimactic. I wish we could've gotten his point of view when he got caught, more about his mother and when those two first started doing the killings.

4. There were a decent amount of editing issues with it, but nothing too crazy where I couldn't understand what she was trying to get across. It didn't really bother me, but I understand how that would bother some people.

Overall I would not recommend to other people, but it was a fairly entertaining read which is why I gave it 2 stars.

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