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A review by sarag19
The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
4.0
***ARC received from Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley in exchange for honest review, opinions are all my own. Thank you!***
I'm conflicted about this book, the majority of it I really enjoyed yet I still felt unsatisfied at the end. Perhaps because you go in knowing way to much about the story. You know Becca is dead and Heather, our main character, killed her. I just feel like the suspense would have been a little deeper if I hadn't known that going it. Doesn't meant that I didn't enjoy the book, it was still a good book.
The book itself is broken into two sections, now and then. We follow Heather through her adult years and as a twelve year old. At first, I wasn't as big a fan of the past section at the beginning, as it is written in first person it felt juvenile being first person as a twelve year old but at the book kept going as we got to learn about Becca and the Red Lady I really liked these sections. But what I mostly liked about this was the relationship between the four girls, it felt real and natural. Becca and Heather are best friends but they are also twelve with secrets and moody behaviors. Heather's interactions with her mother was just what you would expect from a preteen.
The present follows Heather in her thirties is where the book started strong for me but didn't fully deliver in the end. Pretty much the opposite of the past sections. Heather is presented to almost be having some type of breakdown, when you try to figure out whether everything she is experiencing is real or all in her head. It at times felt like it could be in her head which creates a very interesting thriller dynamic. Its such a shame that the reveal of the ending fell flat to me. A good build up to an ending that just didn't fully deliver, even if the rest of the book, particularly the past sections were so good.
I'm conflicted about this book, the majority of it I really enjoyed yet I still felt unsatisfied at the end. Perhaps because you go in knowing way to much about the story. You know Becca is dead and Heather, our main character, killed her. I just feel like the suspense would have been a little deeper if I hadn't known that going it. Doesn't meant that I didn't enjoy the book, it was still a good book.
The book itself is broken into two sections, now and then. We follow Heather through her adult years and as a twelve year old. At first, I wasn't as big a fan of the past section at the beginning, as it is written in first person it felt juvenile being first person as a twelve year old but at the book kept going as we got to learn about Becca and the Red Lady I really liked these sections. But what I mostly liked about this was the relationship between the four girls, it felt real and natural. Becca and Heather are best friends but they are also twelve with secrets and moody behaviors. Heather's interactions with her mother was just what you would expect from a preteen.
The present follows Heather in her thirties is where the book started strong for me but didn't fully deliver in the end. Pretty much the opposite of the past sections. Heather is presented to almost be having some type of breakdown, when you try to figure out whether everything she is experiencing is real or all in her head. It at times felt like it could be in her head which creates a very interesting thriller dynamic. Its such a shame that the reveal of the ending fell flat to me. A good build up to an ending that just didn't fully deliver, even if the rest of the book, particularly the past sections were so good.