The Cellar By: Natasha Preston
So I just started reading this book called The Cellar and its pretty real and disturbing if you ask me. Its about this girl who gets kidnapped and is forced to live in this guys basement with 3 other girls that he calls is his "family". All of the girls are told to forget their old lives and even change their own names to the names of certain flowers such as; Poppy, Rose, Violet and the main character Lily. This book is about Summer's (AKA Lily) experience along with the other 3 girls as they battle to survive this man and their journey to freedom from him.
Now that you know just a little bit about the book I would like to inform you on the author, Natasha. Natasha was born in a small town of England and is now married with 1 son. She stumbled across writing in a not so normal way. She claims that she found her passion through an app called Wattpad. She was inspired by the writing that she read on the app and decided to try and write some stories for the app. She mentions that this app gave her the "self-confidence" in herself that she had been lacking and has been writing ever since.
Natasha has also written other books called Silence, Covert, Second Chance, and Broken Silence (sequel to Silence). When I read the descriptions to some of these books I can tell what genres she leans towards and what her writing style is. Most of her books have to deal with the aspect of horror (Covert and The Cellar) if not horror then human hardship (Silence and Second Chance). The books that contain more human hardship still contain parts of horrendous actions. If you want to find out more on Natasha Preston click on the picture below.
Stephanie Ahmed
ReplyDeleteI liked how you added the background of the author by doing this I can see why the book was written how it was written and why the author chooses to do certain things it makes your blog have live to it. Great job
Nice job Ellee! I really like how you tell all about the authors perspective and his opinions almost. This shows and helps us understand how the author came to writing this peice.
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