Have You Seen This Girl – Book #1 Wendi Wise is a troubled young woman who snorts her breakfast through a straw and spends more time in rehab than in the real world.Her life is seemingly out of control. But now she has a plan. That plan involves a sharp set of butcher knives. She’s going back to where all of her troubles began… Flocksdale. Wendi was lured away from a local skating rink, at the … from a local skating rink, at the age of thirteen, and held captive in a place she calls ‘The House of Horrors.’ Dumped off blindfolded on the side of a dirt road, Wendi soon discovered that she was addicted to the drugs they fed her while she was captive.
Too scared to go home, and having a new habit to deal with, she hopped on a bus, vanishing from the family she loved. Vanishing from Flocksdale…
The town of Flocksdale is littered with fliers with a grainy image of young Wendi, and the words ‘Have You Seen This Girl?’ written below. Now, eight years later, she’s on a mission—a mission to find the mysterious house from her youth and the monsters who dwell inside it.
House of the Lost Girls – Book #2
Seventeen-year-old Marianna Bertagnoli is miserable…
Not only did her father abandon her five years ago, now she’s being uprooted and forced to move with her mother and new stepdad to a creepy Victorian house they inherited in the even creepier town of Flocksdale.
Flocksdale has an evil, ugly past—and history has a way of repeating itself…
Marianna notices some strange qualities about her new home, and soon realizes she’s living in none other than the infamous House of Horrors. That’s right, the very house where the demented Garrett family ran a drug ring, leading to the kidnappings and murders of forty young girls.
The dark energy of the town begins to rise again…
Within a week of moving in, Marianna’s mother disappears, one of her small group of new friends is found murdered, and she’s attacked by a man wearing a hideous clown mask. As she searches for answers, Marianna wonders if the malevolence still lingers, somehow alive…and how her stepdad came to own the House of Horrors.
Unsure who to trust, Marianna turns to Wendi Wise, a survivor of the Garretts’ crimes…
Caught up in twisted family ties and surrounded by deceit, Marianna is targeted by a new generation of evil. Doubly imprisoned—in her own body and in the real house of the lost girls—Marianna needs Wendi’s help to unravel the bizarre history of Flocksdale.
But will Marianna survive long enough to bring the evil to light? Or will she be trapped in the house of the lost girls forever?
Carnival of Dead Girls – Book #3
Nothing interesting happens in the podunk town of Lamison Point—until a freak show rolls through…
When a traveling carnival stops in the sleepy countryside, sixteen-year-old Josie Crowley is psyched to go with her new friend, Freya. But what started out as a fun-filled night of games, candied apples, and ferris wheel rides quickly spirals into a gut-wrenching encounter with one of the carnival attractions.
Once the excitement is over, Lamison is missing one of its residents…
When Freya is nowhere to be found, Josie suspects the carnival has something to do with her disappearance. Her goal to track down the elusive show leads to an alarming revelation—there is no record of it ever existing. And as she digs deeper, Josie is led to a mysterious town with a tainted past—Flocksdale.
Buried in Flocksdale’s sick, twisted history is where Josie may find the truth…
Creepy clowns, disfigured freaks, and a terrifying haunted house are the least of Josie’s problems…now she has to deal with a group of real-life monsters, otherwise known as the evil Garrett family and new, rising generation of hell-bound freaks.
If Josie is pulled into their world, she may become another member of a carnival of dead girls, where she goes in, and never comes out…
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Book One:
When Wendi turns thirteen, she and her friend, Claire, meet two boys. They’re older, and their interest is something that Wendi has never experienced before. After being banned from hanging with them, Wendi and Claire find ways to sneak out and see them anyway. Except their disappearance becomes longer than a few hours. When Wendi finds herself in a sex trafficking ring, she feels too ashamed to go home to her family when she’s released. Instead, she flees vowing revenge on the monsters who turned her life upside down.
I absolutely adored Wendi’s character. Even though she has an immense amount of self-doubt, she is strong and ruthless. She did what she needed to do to take down the monsters who nearly destroyed her, fighting through her own demons to do so.
I was so caught up in Wendi’s story, that I found this book nearly impossible to stop once I’d started. By the time it came for Wendi to get her revenge, I thought I had the ending of the book figured out, but I was so wrong. Every chapter of this book has its own twists and turns. The ending was beautiful.
Overall, I thought this was a good cautionary tale about what can happen when a girl isn’t careful about who she picks as her “friends.”
Narration was wonderful.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
Book Two:
Marianna is an angry girl. When her father disappears, she hates him for it. Hates him more for leaving her and her mother with her stepfather, George. When one of George’s relatives pass, they move into the infamous house of horrors. As Marianna learns about the truth of the town, and her own stepfather’s family roots, her mother disappears. Marianna’s entire world is turned upside down when she realizes she didn’t know her family at all.
There were so many ups and downs in this book it was like a rollercoaster. I didn’t know who to root for and who to boo! At first, the petty rivalry between Lou and Sam seemed so simple, but it got so much more complex.
The mystery of who was actually the killer had me unable to put this book down. I love the way the author introduced the main character of book one into the story, making her a secondary character in this one. The way she and Marianna teamed up against the house of horrors, and Flocksdale, was such a sweet moment.
This book gave us a new look at Wendi Wise, and it was glorious.
Narration was wonderful.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
Book Three:
Josie is a lonely girl. All she wants is a friend. She thinks she’s found that in a girl named Freya. After an altercation at the carnival, she realizes that Freya doesn’t feel for her the way Josie does for her. Then Freya disappears. The carnival disappears the next day, and Josie goes on a hunt to find out the truth of what happened. What she discovers ties into her own dark past, and she learns new things about herself. Things she wished she never knew.
I liked Josie. She was down to Earth and easy to relate to. The struggle to find acceptance was a driving force behind a lot of her actions, and that’s something a lot of us went through as a teenager.
I loved the twists and turns in this story, and the way the author brought in the MCs of previous books, Wendi Wise and Marianna, to tie into the book and give the entire ending of the trilogy a perfect wrap up. I have to say that I didn’t see any of the ending of this book coming, and I bawled my eyes out. It was all wrapped up so perfectly.
Narration was wonderful.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
This is a awesome series!!! You are going to want to get this box, you’ll want to read all books once you get started.
Book 1: Wendi Wise is the victim of a kidnapping that leads her down a dark road away from all she loves and knows. At 13, her and her best friend, Claire, try to explore their little part of the world and end up with the wrong crowd. When things go from bad to worse, Wendi spends years never really getting over the evil of “The House of Horrors” that took her innocence and made her addicted to drugs.
After years away from Flocksdale, Wendi now going by Elsie McClain…is making her way back to right the wrongs that she was forced to be a part of. The years of hiding are coming to an end and everything lines up for her to take her revenge.
Book 2: This story takes place 20 years after book 1 ended and 17 year-old Marianna Bertagnoli is being forced to move to another town with her mother and her stepfather from Ohio. They are leaving everything and everyone she knows behind to move to Flocksdale into a family home of her stepfather’s. The house itself is creepy and after some digging she finds that it is known as the House of Horrors and has a bad history to go with the bad vibes. Then Marianna’s Mom goes “missing”, and don’t trust George her Step-Dad.
The writing style is smooth and fast paced. The writing has a natural flow.
While I suppose it could be read as a standalone novel, having read the first one really made this book better and I would definitely recommend reading all three in the series. The book was full of suspense, action, and surprises, which kept me turning the pages.
Book 3: Scary Clowns
Missing Girls
Freak Show
A Carnival run by shady people
Violence
Haunted House
Could you ask for anything more?
Josie Crowley has no friends. Her Dad & Stepmom pretty much let her do whatever she wants. She starts to be friends with this chick named Freya. She doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Josie loves that she has a friend, but Freya acts like she’s acquaintance not a real friend . Josie is the type to do just about anything to get people to like her.
Then the Carnival comes to town! So the girls plan to go! Freya is obsessed with a boy from the Carnival and disappears. Josie follows her, until she hears Freya saying some hurtful things about her. She leaves then meets Evan.
Days later, Josie realizes that Freya never came home after the carnival. She starts digging around and it all leads her back to this town called Flocksdale. If you’d read previous books, you know how crazy this is going to get! It was action packed, Wendi & Marianna show up (that was awesome) Read this series!!