A review by iilex
Dead Ringer by Jessie Rosen

2.0

Thanks to NetGalley for providing me this book in exchange for an honest review.

Dead Ringer is basically Pretty Little Liars, except not as well-written (and if you've read Pretty Little Liars, I hope you can recognize the insult that it is) This book is just....not good. The writing is mediocre and the plot doesn't make up for that fact. The story is at times boring, and at times way too over-the-top, but not in a really fun way. And oh yeah - this is the first book in a series, though there is no indication of this in the blurb or anywhere on the book itself. We are left with a cliffhanger, though the story isn't interesting enough to justify multiple volumes.

Overall, this book just annoyed me. It's not very long or difficult to read, but it took me awhile anyway since it didn't interest me much. I think the author was trying to make some point about bullying here, but I'm not sure what?

In this book, the "bullies" never actually do anything that bad, and the "victim" is proven to be a creepy sociopath almost from day one.

I'm not sure what the author is going for? And though the beginning of the book isn't the same, by the end of the book I realized that plot bore a remarkable similarity to

Pretty Little Liars. A "dead" girl who gets a lot of plastic surgery, spends thousands of dollars, and cooks up an insane plot in order to enact revenge on a clique of high schoolers? Been there, done that.

I gave this book a 2, which is probably being generous. There are so many better books out there, I wouldn't recommend this one.