A review by renee_reads_books
Missing Dead Girls by Sara Walters
dark
slow-paced
1.5
Missing Dead Girls by Sara Walters is the last book I started reading on my trip, in the airplane on the way home. I chose it because it’s YA and sounded like the kind of easy summer thrillers I used to enjoy growing up. So basically… nostalgia. And it was featured in the Nook store as a thriller not to be missed. I went in pretty blind.
It’s a story about a girl named Tillie whose mom makes her leave Philadelphia for a suburb before her senior year of high school. Something bad happened last year. Her mother needed to get Tillie away from the city.
Tillie is distracted by that incident, which involved her ex-girlfriend and another girl … one who ended up dead.
But when she meets Madison Frank, last year becomes a memory … at least for now. She and Madison fall hard for each other and begin spending all their time together. And it turns out they both have cause to want revenge against the same boy.
There’s a problem, though, and spilling secrets might be the only way to save Madison when a photo of her bloody body is texted to the whole school from Tillie’s name — on the first day of school when no one knows Tillie at all. And how did that other girl die back in Philly?
I guess I had higher expectations for this book. Or maybe I just didn’t remember how watered down YA thrillers can be. I didn’t find this book exciting. From the start, I kept picturing Tillie as Kristen Stewart … boring and meh. Her character just felt like monotone personified. Flat affect. Not interesting. Kind of annoying.
I think a teenager would really like this. I have clearly outgrown YA thrillers, haha.
1.5/5
It’s a story about a girl named Tillie whose mom makes her leave Philadelphia for a suburb before her senior year of high school. Something bad happened last year. Her mother needed to get Tillie away from the city.
Tillie is distracted by that incident, which involved her ex-girlfriend and another girl … one who ended up dead.
But when she meets Madison Frank, last year becomes a memory … at least for now. She and Madison fall hard for each other and begin spending all their time together. And it turns out they both have cause to want revenge against the same boy.
There’s a problem, though, and spilling secrets might be the only way to save Madison when a photo of her bloody body is texted to the whole school from Tillie’s name — on the first day of school when no one knows Tillie at all. And how did that other girl die back in Philly?
I guess I had higher expectations for this book. Or maybe I just didn’t remember how watered down YA thrillers can be. I didn’t find this book exciting. From the start, I kept picturing Tillie as Kristen Stewart … boring and meh. Her character just felt like monotone personified. Flat affect. Not interesting. Kind of annoying.
I think a teenager would really like this. I have clearly outgrown YA thrillers, haha.
1.5/5