( 13 reviews )
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Posted: Jul 12 2009
I received this book by mistake. I thought I had ordered The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow. I read this one by Amanda Stevens anyway. It was interesting but after I finished it, I spent half the night trying to tie things together. I never did figure out why they kidnapped Ruby and why she resembled the original Maddy in such detail. What happened to Ruby? I can't understand this book.
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Posted: Apr 6 2009
Clare and Dave's young daughter disappeared seven years, without a trace. Dave found his solace in a bottle, leading to the end of his marriage. Claire has remarried, but that marriage is falling apart. When she sees a doll in a shop window, a doll that looks remarkably like her missing daughter, Clare turns to Dave, who is now sober and a private investigator, to find out what the doll maker knows about their child's disappearance. Although the book has a good premise, and the characters of Clare, Dave and others are well developed, this book was for me neither suspenseful nor thrilling. I found it a solid read, but figured out the mystery fairly quickly and found nothing too remarkable about the book, I never felt that edge of the seat excitement I look for in books of this kind. A good, but pedestrian thriller.
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Posted: Aug 3 2008
I really liked this book. It was an easy read and I loved the story about 2 characters Claire and Dave who lost a child and about a dollmaker who makes the dolls to look exactly like the victims. I agree with another reviewer regarding the cover and the way the doll with the eye draws you. This is a great spooky read with a good story. Not gorry or graphic like a lot of those Gothic vampire novels which I don't care for. Written in good taste.
