The Cellar by Natasha Preston
This one was recommended to me by a student. Truth be told, I probably never would have read this one, but it was an ok read.
Summer is a sixteen year old girl in England. At the beginning of the book, she is looking for a friend who was having a fight with her boyfriend. A dude comes up to her, calls her Lily, and kidnaps her. Seriously, this happened in less than ten pages.
Psycopath/Colin/Clover takes Summer back to his place, and takes her to his immaculate cellar, where three other girls are living. They are Rose, Poppy, and Violet. Clover refers to the girls as his Flowers, and comes to have breakfast and dinner with them. They have no contact with the outside world, and Clover "falls in love" with them, which is just a nice way to say he rapes them.
All these girls had lives on the outside, but Clover kidnapped them so he could have a family. If they made him mad, he was not above killing them. Speaking of killing, he brings prostitutes home and kills them in front of the girls. He blames all prostitutes because his father slept with one when he was a child, and it scarred Clover for life.
Summer has a boyfriend, and there are chapters in his perspective detailing his months long search for her. Everyone should be so lucky to have someone love them like Lewis loves Summer. We also see Clover's point of view in chapters devoted to his perspective. What a freak.
Not sure I will read other offerings by this author, as this was only ok.
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