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3.23 AVERAGE
3.23 AVERAGE
tummidge's review against another edition
4.0
"Beth or Coach, who do I believe when one never tells the truth and one gives me nothing but riddles?"
Dare Me is the tale of a reliable narrator caught between a friend and a mentor, which at once has a psychological bent to it before unveiling itself as pure black noir albeit subverted to take place from the perspective of a 17 year old cheerleader. The prologue tells us as much as Addy is summoned to an apartment by someone to confirm somebody is dead.
I previously tried reading this one, but it never connected with me, but having recently read Queenpin by the same author I felt I understood more what this was striving for. There is a part in the middle of the novel where things appear slightly formless and not seeming to go anywhere, but once you get through this it explodes into a fast paced noir mystery.
The above quote kind of displays where things go with you never knowing quite what to believe. Another strong book from Abbott, who I am now seeing why she is so revered in the Crime fiction community.
Dare Me is the tale of a reliable narrator caught between a friend and a mentor, which at once has a psychological bent to it before unveiling itself as pure black noir albeit subverted to take place from the perspective of a 17 year old cheerleader. The prologue tells us as much as Addy is summoned to an apartment by someone to confirm somebody is dead.
I previously tried reading this one, but it never connected with me, but having recently read Queenpin by the same author I felt I understood more what this was striving for. There is a part in the middle of the novel where things appear slightly formless and not seeming to go anywhere, but once you get through this it explodes into a fast paced noir mystery.
The above quote kind of displays where things go with you never knowing quite what to believe. Another strong book from Abbott, who I am now seeing why she is so revered in the Crime fiction community.
alexmatzkeit's review against another edition
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Ein unangenehm zu lesender Thriller, der aber gerade in der zweiten Hälfte einen düsteren Sog entwickelt. Cheerleading als Kreuzung zwischen militärischer Dynamik und High School Drama. Alle Figuren sind furchtbar zu sich selbst und zueinander.
smirk's review against another edition
2.0
These are the meanest mean girls you'll ever meet. The mystery portion of the book was pretty good. The author kept me guessing until the guilty person was revealed. All of the stuff was too much.
saguaros's review against another edition
3.0
took me a while to get used to the narrator's voice--the sentence fragments, the teenage metaphors--and even though I liked The Fever (same author) much better, I still couldn't quite stop reading this, intrigued.