I was just mostly grossed out and traumatized by the lengths they were going to remove this supposed “evil” from this girl. While I was horrified by what these girls were doing, I was not crying over any death that occurred in this story. Where there’s a lack in character development, there’s also lacks emotion and depth. No details spared there either! No, thanks!! I even had to skip a few pages during a part that involved cockroaches and a dead body. You’ll be reading detailed accounts of torture including someone’s nail getting ripped out without anything left out of its description.

And like I said, it’s also not for the faint of heart, let me tell you right now. But it does offer a pretty decent horror story, nonetheless. And I found myself frustrated by the number of times the protagonist “almost” got the upper hand in this story – 20 pages spent on her plan to get the girls drugged so she can escape, just to fail in 10 seconds, and so on. Character development is not especially strong, for instance. The book itself is more for the horror and shock value than substance. “Most girls would just start a burn book.”īut not these girls! These girls opt for pulling hairs out of scalps and taking fingernails out. After a quick introduction to our protagonist and the setting, we’re thrust into a house-of-torture kind of read where these girls have it in their head that one is a demon that must be exorcised. It’s a horror through and through, and definitely not for the wussies or faint of hearts. This was my reaction to much of this novel’s… happenings. By the shockingly twisted end, readers will be faced with the most haunting question of all: Is there evil in all of us? In this chilling debut, Danielle Vega delivers blood-curdling suspense and terror on every page. All Sofia wants is to get out of this house. Now, Riley and the girls are performing an exorcism on Brooklyn-but their idea of an exorcism is closer to torture than salvation. Sofia didn’t realize they believed Brooklyn was possessed. When she befriended Riley, Grace, and Alexis on her first day at school, she admired them, with their perfect hair and their good-girl ways. Sofia Flores knows she shouldn’t have gotten involved.

No one outside of these dank basement walls knows she’s here. The Merciless by Danielle Vegaīrooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Penguin Canada in exchange for an honest review. Thursday, JReview: The Merciless by Danielle Vega Posted by Giselle

The merciless by danielle vega