A review by sophielaura1
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin

1.0

1 star is being generous. God, where do is start. Firstly, the title of the is COMPLETELY misleading. It was nothing alike what the book suggested and more of a memoir style book, of a relatively boring girl who lived in LA for a few months. Anytime we did begin to delve in to the topic of ‘dead girls’ in which the author would use a (semi) popular tv show, movie or book etc, she would change her mind about what kind of pop culture reference she wanted to use and then switch back and forth and back and forth. Like she couldn’t keep her mind on track. To be honest, I initially thought that I wasn’t smart enough to read this book, because I was struggling with some of the references etc, but it turns out that it wasn’t a me thing after reading reviews with similar opinions and thoughts. The best way I could describe the writing in this book is that it was like reading words instead of sentences. Anyway, I’ll definitely start reading more reviews before auto-buying books that I think have interesting premises. ONE VERY GENEROUS STAR!!