More catastrophes occur afterward, each with Rocky at the scene of the crime. The three make a truce not to prank each other like that going forward. Many things are ruined: Zane's camera, the dining room table, and the film in Zane's camera by the dummy.ĭan and Trina eventually catch Zane taking Rocky from the attic and it's revealed that Zane was placing Rocky in weird places for fun. After a while, one of the dummies called Rocky pops up in weird places, scaring Zane while Trina and Dan get the blame for each incident. Their father makes them promise not to scare Zane, as they had done in a previous visit. Trina and Dan's cousin, Zane, is coming for a visit. Shortly after, Slappy slaps her across the face. Trina finds a piece of paper that says " Karru Marri Odonna Loma Molonu Karrano" in Slappy's front pocket and reads it. After repairing his broken shaft, he names him Smiley, unaware of the dummy's past. O'Dell brings Slappy home after finding him in a dumpster. Trina O'Dell and her brother, Dan O'Dell's father, Danny O'Dell, collects various ventriloquist dummies. No way those dummies could be alive! Right? And dummies keep showing up in the strangest places. Trina and her brother, Dan, think the dummies are pretty cool. That's why he has all those dummies in the attic. Trina O'Dell's dad used to have a ventriloquist act.
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I would recommend this book, I found it both moving and exciting. It is a classic story of two people who have a particular distaste for each other slowly falling in love. I loved reading this as it covered themes from war to marriage, however, I found it resembled Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice slightly in the characters meeting and turbulent relationship. Peggy's introduction to society debutant ball that first brought Alex and Eliza together was particularly entertaining as I learnt of a world of corsets, wigs and dance cards. I particularly loved learning about the fashion and delicacies of the era. I loved as the relationship between Alex and Eliza bloomed as they overcame obstacles such as the class division and wealth divide in society, but also the relationship between the sisters as it grew stronger. Whilst the ending was predictable, in my opinion, it made the story even better as we as readers listen to the characters deny the inevitable. 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