Review: Inspiring short story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2013
Have you ever been alone in a mal-fuctioned elevator midway. For over six hours? Well…Here’s a classic short novel by Cassi Gray who describes each and every emotion of a young girl, Cordelia, stranded in an elevator of a building for almost half a day. Wonder what she was doing all the time? She was interacting with a strange human voice without any physical form but can control every action and feeling of hers. Though initially, Cordelia was thinking that she was trying to be killed by someone, she slowly gets attached to the voice, who actually proves to her that it is trying to save her from a great danger.The twist comes up when Cordelia finally comes out of the elevator safe and sound, and learns that the building was actually attacked by some terrorists and she was one of the few inmates who was alive as the elevator in which she was stranded in had mal-functioned due to strange reasons, while all others were working perfectly. She also gets baffled when she learns that the voice that was interacting with her was that of an alien which landed recently in the town, and rescued her from the jaws of death, for reasons totally un-known to her.A short book which brought out all the emotions of a young girl stranded in four walls of an elevator, perfect and nonchalant. The reader sails through the pages with ‘what next’ feeling and finish it off at one go. Very innovative thought by the author in her first book of her Novella.My rating is 3.75/5