A review by haileyrt
Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

"The dead want to die" whew what a line. I thought this novel was pretty good. Even though the first 200 pages were a lot and hard to connect to the actual plot, it still was decent getting into it. I went into this novel completely blind like I do literally almost every book I read, and I promise I would've never thought it'd end like it did. I thought the ending was actually pretty good too, and it was a bit more understandable and easy to follow rather than the beginning since we just jumped straight into the story without a lot of explanation to a lot of the characters. A bit in the novel I felt like there were so many characters and things going on that it felt hard to feel connected to the characters since there were so many in the middle and so much going on alongside Temple dealing with everything going on at the camp. Trying to digest and understand the dynamic of the Baker family while trying to understand the murders and how the victims were affected and while also having to digest what was happening at the campsite was a lot to comprehend at once, but I am satisfied with how it ended and that a slight explanation to what was happening with Temple's family and the victims was given even though I'm still confused about the scarring and how the possessions worked, but this still was a decent read.