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alistraera 's review for:
Julie Chan Is Dead
by Liann Zhang
thank you netgalley and atria books for the ARC! all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own
i had a lot of fun reading this but wow that second half of it was a rollercoaster!! my true rating for this is a 3.5/5 rounded up
i read this so fast because i was hooked LOL i felt like i was back in high school binging a season of pretty little liars from how much fun i was having watching everything unravel. personally, i found julie's character really intersting, and even though i started to dislike her as she got more self-absorbed and i disagreed with most of her decision-making, i really enjoyed being in the head of a flawed character and seeing their thought process. i felt like i witnessed a slow descent of julie's character, almost to a point where i was certain she was going to start fully believing she was chloe herself. there were so many times where i was thinking "oh she's too far gone" whenever she went down one of her inner monologues that made her sound like one of the belladonnas
the mystery behind chloe's death, the van huusens, and the belladonna retreat throughout the story was interwoven so nice. i honestly felt so bad for chloe by the end of the story, which is funny because i went in thinking she was completely irredeemable
and oh the belladonna retreat omg my jaw kept dropping like every other page LOL i didn't expect miss julie's social media break make her susceptible to joining a cult!!! i kinda had a feeling bella marie knew about her being julie for a while but seeing the "i love you, julie" written out actually made my heart drop when i first saw it. iz deserved so much better oml i couldn't exactly feel bad for julie when she told the police what happened
i'm not sure how i feel about the ending exactly, but i did get chills at julie's last chapters of monologues. she almost sounded like she was using that same cultspeak that bella marie was using, as if she was becoming the next bella marie herself. i got chills omg
but anyways this was a fun one to binge! i look forward to more of the author's works in the future since this is her debut book!!
i had a lot of fun reading this but wow that second half of it was a rollercoaster!! my true rating for this is a 3.5/5 rounded up
i read this so fast because i was hooked LOL i felt like i was back in high school binging a season of pretty little liars from how much fun i was having watching everything unravel. personally, i found julie's character really intersting, and even though i started to dislike her as she got more self-absorbed and i disagreed with most of her decision-making, i really enjoyed being in the head of a flawed character and seeing their thought process. i felt like i witnessed a slow descent of julie's character, almost to a point where i was certain she was going to start fully believing she was chloe herself. there were so many times where i was thinking "oh she's too far gone" whenever she went down one of her inner monologues that made her sound like one of the belladonnas
the mystery behind chloe's death, the van huusens, and the belladonna retreat throughout the story was interwoven so nice. i honestly felt so bad for chloe by the end of the story, which is funny because i went in thinking she was completely irredeemable
and oh the belladonna retreat omg my jaw kept dropping like every other page LOL i didn't expect miss julie's social media break make her susceptible to joining a cult!!! i kinda had a feeling bella marie knew about her being julie for a while but seeing the "i love you, julie" written out actually made my heart drop when i first saw it. iz deserved so much better oml i couldn't exactly feel bad for julie when she told the police what happened
i'm not sure how i feel about the ending exactly, but i did get chills at julie's last chapters of monologues. she almost sounded like she was using that same cultspeak that bella marie was using, as if she was becoming the next bella marie herself. i got chills omg
but anyways this was a fun one to binge! i look forward to more of the author's works in the future since this is her debut book!!