The Cellar

The first time I read this book in middle school, I thought it was incredible. Now, it's pretty insufferable. If it had been executed properly with more character development beyond incessant whining, it would have been great, but, sadly that didn't happen. I hated every single one of the characters besides the kidnapper, for fuck's sake.
Summer, to start off with, I had absolutely no sympathy for. She just whined and bitched and moaned in the least endearing way the whole book and was only focused on her boyfriend. Like, your family, do they matter?
Then Lewis, who I couldn't stand for even one second. I skipped over every one of his chapters because it was just filled with sappy love shit every other line.
The only vaguely interesting character was Clover/Colin, who at least had some depth, some mystery, some intrigue.
The writing in this was also horrendous. There's was no mystery or beauty to it; it was all tell and no show. all of the characters thoughts that were written were cringy to read.
All in all, this is a 1.5 star book. Clover earned that .5