Book Review: See How They Run

 

Eighteen years ago, the Lull Lane Dollmaker made ten families porcelain dolls as gifts to welcome their children into the world. But what these families didn’t know was that the souls of the lullabies were poured into each one as they were created. Now, the Dollmaker is coming to collect.

One. By. One.


Briar Hartley is the queen of Wisteria High—rich, ruthless, and devastatingly pretty. She breaks hearts for sport, ruins reputations with a whisper, and collects ex-boyfriends like trophies. Apologies aren’t in her vocabulary; the world exists to serve her, and everyone else is just background noise.

She’s never given a second thought to the strange doll that’s been perched on her bedroom shelf since she was a baby. Not until it starts to whisper.

As the rhymes grow darker, Briar’s perfect body begins to betray her. Fine white fur creeps across her skin no matter how often she shaves it. Her teeth sharpen into eager little knives. Hunger coils inside her, curling tighter each day, begging for something warm and red.

No amount of designer clothes or sugar-sweet smiles can hide what she’s becoming.

Because Briar Hartley was always a predator at heart. Now she’s just grown the claws to match—and she can’t wait to carve people open, just to see how beautifully they’ll bleed.


Fairytales never promised happy endings.

Some dolls are made for play. Others are made for blood...

My Review

So, Briar is the first of the next generation children that I despise. She is so horrible. The parents this time were not as prominent. In fact, they both came off as pushovers. She deserved everything that was happening to her. It could not have happened to a "worse" person than Briar. 

"Debt must be paid"

This book is not that gory or as dark. For me, it was more of a psychological vibe. Which I actually really liked a lot. The slow changes that were happening to Briar were scarier than gore. I had vivid images of the changes to Briar in my head and that was scary. To not be able to stop what is happening to you and knowing that your humanity is slipping away would make anyone fearful.