Second Coming: A Little Princess Horror Homage
by George Bachman
In this dark fable set in Victorian England, seven-year-old heiress Melissa Hawthorne is confronted with loneliness when she is uprooted from her comfortable countryside existence to a London boarding school, where headmistress Miss Grandine flatters her while harboring jealousy and dislike. A dislike that balloons into open hostility when Melissa’s father loses his fortune and dies tragically, leaving her a penniless charity pupil completely at Miss Grandine’s mercy. Little does she know that being made a servant cruelly treated by both staff and fellow pupils will be the least of her worries, as a nameless horror begins to stalk her through the school halls, something pushing through reality’s thin surface to consume her. When her brutal circumstances begin to merge with the uncanny, Melissa, left all alone in the world, must find a way to escape both before they destroy her.
3.5 out of 5 fairies
If you enjoyed reading The Little Princess and enjoy a bit of supernatural horror, then this is the perfect book for you! I will say this very closely follows the plot of the inspiration book, and I think I would’ve enjoyed it more if the author had branched out a bit more and made the story more their own. While it is an eerie story, and moves along at a good pace, it just feels like it’s missing…something. Although I can’t quite put my finger on what. The characters are about what I’d expect having read The Little Princess, and true to their inspiration. It’s a fairly quick read, I flew through it in an afternoon, dying to know how things would turn out for Melissa. Overall, if you’ve ever wondered what the original story would be like with a horror twist, then you’re going to love this!
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