![]() ![]() ![]() Trigger warnings for the mention of rape, murder, physical abuse. If you go into not expecting the best written thing in the world I think you would like it. I also think that the time Summer spent in the cellar could have been done better and more could have been added to the plot of this if the girls just did more to attempt to escape the cellar. The same lines were reused a lot as well which I wasn’t a fan of. I don’t think that we got a description of the way that the girls looked who were with Summer at any point in the story. There could have been more descriptions of the people. ![]() The story line was good but I do think that this book could have been so much better. I will say that the way things went down towards the end of the book was pretty realistic. My Thoughts: So this was better than I was expecting it to be. But flowers can’t survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out…. The Cellar is a 1980 horror novel by American author Richard Laymon.It was Laymons first published novel, and together with sequels The Beast House, The Midnight Tour, and the novella Friday Night in Beast House, forms the series known by fans of Laymon as 'The Beast House Chronicles. Spending months inside the cellar of her kidnapper with several other girls, Summer learns of Colin’s abusive past, and his thoughts of his victims being his family…his perfect, pure flowers. No family or police investigation can track her down. Goodreads Synopsis: Nothing ever happens in the town of Long Thorpe – that is, until sixteen-year-old Summer Robinson disappears without a trace. ![]()
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