--- product_id: 18774339 title: "The Girl Next Door" price: "Rp409141" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/18774339-the-girl-next-door store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # The Girl Next Door **Price:** Rp409141 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Girl Next Door - **How much does it cost?** Rp409141 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/18774339-the-girl-next-door) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Girl Next Door [Ketchum, Jack] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Girl Next Door Review: You've Been Warned. - "A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children." This is the log line on the back of the book. Blunt, without pretension, it's less a summary and more a warning as to what lies within. This is not a pleasant read, but it is a memorable and powerful one. Ketchum is a talented writer, terse in his prose and to-the-point. From the beginning of the story he introduces the themes of pain, violence, and torture and continually reiterates them. The neighborhood kids in the Girl Next Door sacrifice earthworms to ants, burn tent worms from trees, and play a deranged children's game eponymously titled The Game. Their world changes when an outsider, a teenage girl named Meg, arrives in their neighborhood. I could explain more, but I'm hesistant. Quite simply, there is little hope in this book or fun-house horror tropes to distract from the violence that ensues. This is a no-BS, raw fictional account of a teenage girl getting brutally tortured for months on end. Reading this novel is like being sucked into a black hole. Dark, unnerving, irresistible, you don't want to stop reading simply because you can't--you feel like it's your duty to bear witness to the horrible things occurring. You feel like you have to finish the damn thing quickly and see it to the dark end. Again, the book is powerful and worth reading but it's not without its faults. Ketchup's writing is streamlined and minimal and it works for the most part. However, the characters aren't quite as well drawn. The teenage girl, Meg, is drawn just enough for us to care for her, but she reads a little thin and quickly disappears as the novel moves along (maybe this is intentional). Don't expect a Stephen King level of characterization. Worth the read, if you can get through it. You've been warned. Review: I very much enjoyed this book, but before reading you may need to peruse the book’s synopsis and previous reviews to see if you’ - It took me a while to write this review after reading The Girl Next Door mainly because, to be honest, I wasn’t sure how to write it without people thinking I’m some kind of psychopath just because I didn’t find it as “horrifying” as many of the other reviewers. But, then I realized that people are gonna think what they want and I really shouldn’t fret about it. So, here goes. I will mention that you should not read this book if you are overly squeamish or if you can’t handle reading about extreme abuse or other brutal situations. I was amazed at how many reviewers said they couldn’t finish the book because of the graphic content, but I can’t help but wonder if they even bothered looking at the book’s cover or any of the previous reviews before reading it. I would think that if you get queasy reading about graphic violence that a simple perusal of the book’s cover/synopsis would be enough to let you know that maybe it’s not for you. But, I digress. First off, I am a huge fan of true crime novels and anything in the horror genre (books and movies), so I did very much enjoy this book as it incorporates both. My favorite movies are the graphic horror flicks such as Saw, Hostel and House of 1000 Corpses, so you can kind of get where I’m coming from. However, although this book was very well-written and extremely descriptive, it was actually not as ghastly as I was expecting, based solely on the previous reviews. Just a good rule of thumb – if you can’t handle these types of graphic movies (mentioned above), then it’s a pretty safe bet you won’t like this book. This particular book was a work of fiction set in suburban America in the 1950s, but it is very closely based on actual events that took place in Indiana in the 1960s. Personally, I find the fact that there are sick people on this earth who can carry out such deprave acts of torture and mutilation on other human beings (not to mention on animals) to be appalling and disgusting. However, abuse like this goes on every day is some part of the world, and refusing to read about it or discuss it does not make the psychopaths go away. If anything, horrific circumstances such as this should be discussed – perhaps those poor girls in Cleveland who were held captive in a house for more than a decade by a sadistic nutcase could have been rescued sooner if neighbors had been willing to ask questions or investigate further when they noticed “unusual” things going on at the house (i.e., nude girls wearing dog collars and leashes crawling around on all fours in the back yard). If you’re not sure what I’m referring to, you should Google the 2013 story of the Ariel Castro kidnappings that occurred in Cleveland, Ohio. Stories such as this should reinforce the fact that the general public needs to be ever-vigilant and not be afraid to report incidents that maybe don’t seem quite right. On a downside, there were lots of issues with transcription of this book to the Kindle electronic format (entire pages/paragraphs missing, etc.). I don’t hold the author at fault for this and I am not factoring it in to my rating, but it definitely caused a distraction for me. (My star rating is based solely on the book’s content, not on the Kindle formatting issues.) Otherwise, I did very much enjoy this book and I have already downloaded several of the author’s other novels. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #14,026 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #355 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #521 in Suspense Thrillers #957 in Psychological Thrillers (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (7,440) | | Dimensions | 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches | | ISBN-10 | 1503950565 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1503950566 | | Item Weight | 2.31 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 320 pages | | Publication date | September 29, 2015 | | Publisher | 47North | | Reading age | 1 year and up | ## Images ![The Girl Next Door - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61PwDjk-jWL.jpg) ![The Girl Next Door - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/814z6Lhyu2L.jpg) ![The Girl Next Door - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71yMqmsRA-L.jpg) ![The Girl Next Door - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71CsvzmyAcL.jpg) ![The Girl Next Door - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31mN0Z1M6lL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You've Been Warned. *by B***N on April 22, 2017* "A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children." This is the log line on the back of the book. Blunt, without pretension, it's less a summary and more a warning as to what lies within. This is not a pleasant read, but it is a memorable and powerful one. Ketchum is a talented writer, terse in his prose and to-the-point. From the beginning of the story he introduces the themes of pain, violence, and torture and continually reiterates them. The neighborhood kids in the Girl Next Door sacrifice earthworms to ants, burn tent worms from trees, and play a deranged children's game eponymously titled The Game. Their world changes when an outsider, a teenage girl named Meg, arrives in their neighborhood. I could explain more, but I'm hesistant. Quite simply, there is little hope in this book or fun-house horror tropes to distract from the violence that ensues. This is a no-BS, raw fictional account of a teenage girl getting brutally tortured for months on end. Reading this novel is like being sucked into a black hole. Dark, unnerving, irresistible, you don't want to stop reading simply because you can't--you feel like it's your duty to bear witness to the horrible things occurring. You feel like you have to finish the damn thing quickly and see it to the dark end. Again, the book is powerful and worth reading but it's not without its faults. Ketchup's writing is streamlined and minimal and it works for the most part. However, the characters aren't quite as well drawn. The teenage girl, Meg, is drawn just enough for us to care for her, but she reads a little thin and quickly disappears as the novel moves along (maybe this is intentional). Don't expect a Stephen King level of characterization. Worth the read, if you can get through it. You've been warned. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I very much enjoyed this book, but before reading you may need to peruse the book’s synopsis and previous reviews to see if you’ *by S***N on September 8, 2014* It took me a while to write this review after reading The Girl Next Door mainly because, to be honest, I wasn’t sure how to write it without people thinking I’m some kind of psychopath just because I didn’t find it as “horrifying” as many of the other reviewers. But, then I realized that people are gonna think what they want and I really shouldn’t fret about it. So, here goes. I will mention that you should not read this book if you are overly squeamish or if you can’t handle reading about extreme abuse or other brutal situations. I was amazed at how many reviewers said they couldn’t finish the book because of the graphic content, but I can’t help but wonder if they even bothered looking at the book’s cover or any of the previous reviews before reading it. I would think that if you get queasy reading about graphic violence that a simple perusal of the book’s cover/synopsis would be enough to let you know that maybe it’s not for you. But, I digress. First off, I am a huge fan of true crime novels and anything in the horror genre (books and movies), so I did very much enjoy this book as it incorporates both. My favorite movies are the graphic horror flicks such as Saw, Hostel and House of 1000 Corpses, so you can kind of get where I’m coming from. However, although this book was very well-written and extremely descriptive, it was actually not as ghastly as I was expecting, based solely on the previous reviews. Just a good rule of thumb – if you can’t handle these types of graphic movies (mentioned above), then it’s a pretty safe bet you won’t like this book. This particular book was a work of fiction set in suburban America in the 1950s, but it is very closely based on actual events that took place in Indiana in the 1960s. Personally, I find the fact that there are sick people on this earth who can carry out such deprave acts of torture and mutilation on other human beings (not to mention on animals) to be appalling and disgusting. However, abuse like this goes on every day is some part of the world, and refusing to read about it or discuss it does not make the psychopaths go away. If anything, horrific circumstances such as this should be discussed – perhaps those poor girls in Cleveland who were held captive in a house for more than a decade by a sadistic nutcase could have been rescued sooner if neighbors had been willing to ask questions or investigate further when they noticed “unusual” things going on at the house (i.e., nude girls wearing dog collars and leashes crawling around on all fours in the back yard). If you’re not sure what I’m referring to, you should Google the 2013 story of the Ariel Castro kidnappings that occurred in Cleveland, Ohio. Stories such as this should reinforce the fact that the general public needs to be ever-vigilant and not be afraid to report incidents that maybe don’t seem quite right. On a downside, there were lots of issues with transcription of this book to the Kindle electronic format (entire pages/paragraphs missing, etc.). I don’t hold the author at fault for this and I am not factoring it in to my rating, but it definitely caused a distraction for me. (My star rating is based solely on the book’s content, not on the Kindle formatting issues.) Otherwise, I did very much enjoy this book and I have already downloaded several of the author’s other novels. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by B***N on September 18, 2019* Je ne peux que recommander ce livre bien qu’il puisse être perturbant. 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