Name: Little Girls
Rating: 3.5625 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9781617736063

Ronald Malfi

Inheriting her childhood home after her distant father's suicide, Laurie notices disturbing manifestations in the house and sees an uncanny resemblance between her daughter's new friend and her own childhood playmate.

Little Girls

Maggie Gordon

I suspect if I hadn't been trying to read this novel around a terrible illness relapse, I would have been able to settle into the creepy atmosphere a lot better. But the fact that I recognised that there was one means Little Girls was going it's job as a horror novel! That being said, I think the novel could have been better. Malfi's book is about a woman who goes back to her family home after her father's death. Her marriage is in trouble, she's a bit disconnected from her daughter, and now she's dealing with her estranged father's sudden death. Intertwined with these problems is the largely unspoken of death of her not-so-friend as a child, and the possible haunting of the house. Both of these issues were brought up minimally in the first 3/4 of the book in order to build suspense, but I think the story would have been stronger had some of the revelations come earlier and the characters had to deal with them directly more. Overall, Little Girls was a decent horror novel though, I just wish Malfi had pushed the narrative a bit more.

Little Girls

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