Reading Response: The Cellar
The Cellar is a book about betrayal, anger, incest, and revenge. One night I felt like reading a horror book, but not something paranormal. I came across this book and couldn't stop reading. This was written well and has such great suspense.
What I like mostly about this book is that it’s narrated by each of the main characters point of view. With each perspective the reasons behind the story slowly show through and come together. This book is about a young boy, Colin, who witnessed, alongside his mother, his father cheating on his mom with a prostitute.
After seeing this his mother left and the two of them set a "mission" that would help "save the world and families". However, they're intentions are understandable how they do this is unthinkable. They kill prostitutes. The girls are drug down to the cellar in Colin and his mother’s home where their lives tragically and gruesomely end. Colin’s mother dies but he keeps their tradition going, killing any "disgusting whore" he finds.
One night Colin came across this woman and he found her very stunning. He kidnapped her and forced her into a relationship with him. He also did this to few other girls who were "worthy". He met this young girl, Summer, in the park one night. Of course he kidnapped her too and she soon became his idea of a perfect family. After countless months of living in his cellar with her new family she became a different person. He trained these girls to be ladies; tidy, persistent, efficient, the perfect housewives and raped them countless times.
These women were to do as they were told. “Clover” was the name the girls were to call him. Eventually the girls are found and Colin (or Clover) is arrested, but he comes back determined to get his family back in the sequel You'll Always Be Mine.
