Warning! This review contains a few minor spoilers in the book. If you're uncomfortable with that thought, please go ahead and click away. Thanks!
Although this book was originally written on Wattpad, I found it from a BookTok post a few months ago. The video creator, whom I can't remember, gave it a good review, so I went ahead and bought it. However, this book wasn't it.
Natasha Preston had the right idea when coming up with this book. If written a different way, The Cellar could have DEFINITELY been more popular and gotten the attention of critics. Unfortunately, this book didn't have the right "jazz", and it lost my interest in the first few chapters. I partly want to believe that it was because it was written on Wattpad, but that isn't a very good excuse because I've read plenty of other books published from Wattpad that are just amazing.
The Cellar didn't make much sense. The first few chapters were rushed, and while Summer was getting kidnapped, I felt I could've seen a little more action and detail when it came to it. It was one of those cliche moments where the white girl gets kidnapped in a white van, blah blah blah. Right there my attention had left the chat, and this whole scene could've been better captivated. Throughout the book, Summer (who's now named Lily) is stuck in the basement of "Clover". He insists on keeping Summer and three other girls in The Cellar to protect them from the dirtiness of the outside world. Clover is obsessed with perfection; and he felt that by kidnapping girls living on the streets, he could help them. His idea of perfection would be okay if it wasn't for the fact that he murders women and hits them.
Clover would murder "dirty women" and have the girls in The Cellar clean it up. It was quite disgusting and didn't make sense with Clover's "perfection." Not to mention the fact that he got extremely angry when it came to flowers dying, which would cause him to hit and yell at the girls for letting the flowers die.
Ultimately, Summer and the other girls are found by the police after he tries to kill them all. Summer goes through trauma and is still in the mindset of The Cellar, which is understandable. To me, this book was okay. It isn't a book that I would totally recommend to someone to read per say, but it's a good book to keep you reading to find out what happens in the end, even if it is predictable. I would give this book three stars, out of the generosity of my heart.
That's it for the review of The Cellar by Natasha Preston. Be sure to leave comments on this post and on my Instagram account (the link is on my Blogger). Thanks and I'll see you soon for the next post!
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