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A review by takingoverthesun
Missing Dead Girls by Sara Walters
2.75
This book did not have good pacing. I kind of went along with everything for the first 90 pages but when the kid drowned on Tillie’s watch as lifeguard that was too much for me it was just horrible and then when we learned Tillie had already allowed somebody else to drown when she could’ve saved them and she consciously let them die and then turned around to get a lifeguard job? That’s messed up.
It was sapphic but it seemed like a pretty toxic relationship to me. Proof:
• “I could never tell where her hunger for me was going to come from next. I was seeing, though, that it almost always started with a secret. She always wanted me the most when it was most apparent how deadly it would be to have me. We always wanted each other the most in the moments it was painfully clear that we were probably the worst thing for each other. “
Tillie and her love interest Madison told each other their secrets so that they always had something on the other person.
• “We shared secrets now. All that dark magic that had wrapped itself around us now bound us together. It could only be broken if one of us wanted to destroy the other. It was terrifying.”
The characters did seem super flat and when they teamed upTO MURDER SOMEONE? That just proved that these girls are crazy. They kept on saying that Elliot, the boy they eventually murdered because they revealed him to be the antagonist 2/3 through the book, needed punishments for his actions (assaulting a girl, in which he does need to face punishment) but Tillie and Madison are no more deserving than him to get away with what they’ve done Scott free!
It was sapphic but it seemed like a pretty toxic relationship to me. Proof:
• “I could never tell where her hunger for me was going to come from next. I was seeing, though, that it almost always started with a secret. She always wanted me the most when it was most apparent how deadly it would be to have me. We always wanted each other the most in the moments it was painfully clear that we were probably the worst thing for each other. “
Tillie and her love interest Madison told each other their secrets so that they always had something on the other person.
• “We shared secrets now. All that dark magic that had wrapped itself around us now bound us together. It could only be broken if one of us wanted to destroy the other. It was terrifying.”
The characters did seem super flat and when they teamed up
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death and Murder