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A review by labunnywtf
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
3.0
Read for Book Roast's Magical Readathon: NEWTs Exams. Subject: Charms, A Level. (Book with Magic)
Holy. adorableness.
Can you call a book that jumps out of the gate with best friend death adorable? I think you can.
This book is The Craft meets iZombie with just the right sprinkling of Death Becomes Her, and I am kind of living for it. I could do an entire series about these four girls solving crime together. And they could be in a band. The Witch and Her Zombies.
I don't know how a book about bringing people back from the dead can qualify so heavily for the Contemporary category, but it really works as a story about a girl trying to grieve for the loss of her best friend. Just because she happens to use really dark magic to bring that friend back, I mean, who hasn't tried that one?
In the process, she accidentally brings back two popular girls who died days before her best friend. The girls are Heathers-light, more Gretchen Wiener than Regina George, but they're still not the ones you want to hang out with while, again, trying to Solve Crime.
So much happens in this relatively short book, so many seriously wrong conclusions jumped to, so many people pissed off. It's a fun ride, but some of the character choices just make you want to reach through the pages and smack someone. I mean, you're driving around with people who everyone in this small town DEFINITELY knows are dead. Does this seem like a good idea to you?
I don't want to say too much and spoil anything, though I did find the whodunnit factor entirely obvious. But I'm me, and I'm obnoxious and always know whodunnit, and no one should listen to me about that anymore. Seriously, I annoy even myself with that. But if you DON'T see it coming, it is an enormous shock, especially given certain...erm...factors. ::shudder::
But it's barely about the whodunnit. It's about a girl dealing with the grief of losing her best friend, and who is furious at being left behind in a school that doesn't even want her. And in trying to deal with her grief, she ends up bringing two people directly into her life who have done nothing to improve it. And we do get the kumbaya, can't we all just get along, Full House style closure with these two, but there's something about these girls that really makes it work.
I mean, they do a Big Dark Spell, and one of the girls throws handfuls of confetti afterwards. How do you hate a character like that?
A sincerely adorable book, which just a few shades of dark magic. What's not to like?
Holy. adorableness.
Can you call a book that jumps out of the gate with best friend death adorable? I think you can.
This book is The Craft meets iZombie with just the right sprinkling of Death Becomes Her, and I am kind of living for it. I could do an entire series about these four girls solving crime together. And they could be in a band. The Witch and Her Zombies.
I don't know how a book about bringing people back from the dead can qualify so heavily for the Contemporary category, but it really works as a story about a girl trying to grieve for the loss of her best friend. Just because she happens to use really dark magic to bring that friend back, I mean, who hasn't tried that one?
In the process, she accidentally brings back two popular girls who died days before her best friend. The girls are Heathers-light, more Gretchen Wiener than Regina George, but they're still not the ones you want to hang out with while, again, trying to Solve Crime.
So much happens in this relatively short book, so many seriously wrong conclusions jumped to, so many people pissed off. It's a fun ride, but some of the character choices just make you want to reach through the pages and smack someone. I mean, you're driving around with people who everyone in this small town DEFINITELY knows are dead. Does this seem like a good idea to you?
I don't want to say too much and spoil anything, though I did find the whodunnit factor entirely obvious. But I'm me, and I'm obnoxious and always know whodunnit, and no one should listen to me about that anymore. Seriously, I annoy even myself with that. But if you DON'T see it coming, it is an enormous shock, especially given certain...erm...factors. ::shudder::
But it's barely about the whodunnit. It's about a girl dealing with the grief of losing her best friend, and who is furious at being left behind in a school that doesn't even want her. And in trying to deal with her grief, she ends up bringing two people directly into her life who have done nothing to improve it. And we do get the kumbaya, can't we all just get along, Full House style closure with these two, but there's something about these girls that really makes it work.
I mean, they do a Big Dark Spell, and one of the girls throws handfuls of confetti afterwards. How do you hate a character like that?
A sincerely adorable book, which just a few shades of dark magic. What's not to like?