Let me give a bit of a backstory about this before I hop into the review. When I finished reading the Cellar and heard that there was a sequel to it from Goodreads, I thought that I would have to wait until it was published next year. However, I found out that the sequel was already finished on Wattpad, so I decided to go on there and give it a shot. It’s the same author, so I was expecting a story that was on the same level as the Cellar. Now, let’s go into the review! Warning to those who are actually interested in reading this, it will have spoilers.
Clover has been evaluated in a psychiatric facility and they have decided that he has a personality disorder. Therefore, they are transferring him to another psychiatric hospital with higher security. However, while being transported, his van gets into a crash and he is able to escape police custody. He is determined to make it back to the cellar and reunite his family.
Summer and Becca have been healing for the past few weeks, but then they get the news that Clover has escaped. They decide that it is time for Clover to get a taste of his own medicine. They plan to go to the cellar every night, hiding knives around. Then they plan to lure him into the Cellar and trap him down there.
Alright, so let me start off with the writing of this story. This story was filled with grammar errors, and it felt like a rushed fanfiction rather than a story. In fact, I felt like the sequel had been written entirely by a different person as a fanfiction of the published version, not a sequel written by the same woman. I honestly have no idea how the publisher edited the original story to make it seem well-written, but this was almost painful to read.
Next, there were a lot of issues with the story. Why would Summer and Becca go back to the Cellar rather than trying to run away and let the police do their jobs? Of course, Clover is going to return to the Cellar, he is a madman who wants to be reunited with his “family”. Also, not only did Summer and Becca return to the Cellar multiple times, but the police did not have a stakeout or anything in the Cellar. They basically allowed Clover to walk back to his old house and nearly kill the girls.
Also, there was the case of Chantelle. In my opinion, she was literally one of the dumbest characters I have ever read. She was a prostitute who Clover threatened with a knife when they first met, but then she thinks that he is simply a normal man after they talk for a bit. She even sees him kill someone, but she gets into her head that he is the only one to actually care about her. They haven’t even been together for a week, but she is already falling in love with him. She only gets shocked when she returns to the cellar and Summer and Becca start their screaming match.
Lastly, I felt so bad for Lewis in this book. He literally had been looking for Summer for months, ruining himself and wishing that she would be alive. Nevertheless, when she returns, they basically have some half-hearted sex and then she is secretly planning with Becca to return to the Cellar. He says that their idea is horrible., but Summer refuses to believe him. When she is shot and in the hospital after their confrontation with Clover, he breaks up with her. He says that she pushed him away for Clover, her kidnapper, which is exactly what she did. Eventually, he proposes to her at the end, but I wish he had just stayed away from her. He literally threw his life away to find her, but then she just chose to ignore that and almost get herself killed again.
All in all, this was a mess. If I could go back and un-read it, I definitely would. I have no more respect for Summer, I was surprised that Becca finally grew a backbone but grew it in such a stupid way, and Chantelle was a mess. Clover was just Clover, the crazy villain. Everyone who cared about Summer and Becca were just left in the dust for their revenge mission. I don’t even know how this could possibly be fixed up when it is published because the entire plot is a mess.
Overall Rating: 1/5
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