REVIEW: Charlotte Says - Alex Bell*

Charlotte Says (#8) - Alex Bell*
Series: Red Eye
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: EBook
Pages: 352 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★
UK Release Date: 7th September 2017

*I received this book for an honest review from NetGalley

Goodreads Blurb

Following the death of her mother in a terrible fire, Jemima flees to the remote Isle of Skye, to take up a job at a school for girls. There she finds herself tormented by the mystery of what really happened that night.
Then Jemima receives a box of Frozen Charlotte dolls from a mystery sender and she begins to remember – a séance with the dolls, a violent argument with her step-father and the inferno that destroyed their home. And when it seems that the dolls are triggering a series of accidents at the school, Jemima realizes she must stop the demonic spirits possessing the dolls – whatever it takes.

Thoughts

This is a prequel to Frozen Charlotte (review coming in October), and shows the story from when it all first began.

The story revolves around Jemima Black, who from what we can gather at the start of the story has had something horrific happen to her. She has also lost her mother, and step-father in a fire at their home.
She ends up taking a job at the Dunvegan School for Girls on the Isle of Sky to get as far away from London as she possibly can.

What can I say about this story, I loved Frozen Charlotte, so going into this I had high expectations, and Good Golly Miss Molly, I wasn't disappointed.
The story keeps the spine tingling horror of Frozen Charlotte and just ramps it up a notch, you finally find out how the dolls came into being, and what damage they inflict at the school.

You could read the two books any way either this one first then Frozen Charlotte, or vice versa it doesn't really matter that much as each just as to the story of the other no matter which order they are read in.

I have to say I loved Estella, this girl had gone through so much and everyone had thought she was lying, even though you find out she may have not been lying about what she said.

I found this to be such a great book that I read it in two days, I just couldn't put it down. It had me as gripped as Frozen Charlotte did.
The problem is I want more, this book just leaves you wanting and that to me is the hallmark of just a great storyteller that you don't want it to end.