A review by impybelle
Dead Girls Don't Write Letters by Gail Giles
3.0
It's a good thing Dead Girls Don't is a short book because odds are good you're going to want to figure out what's going on quickly.
A quick skim of some of the reviews have said that people find it unbelieavble that any family would so thoroughly favor one child over the other. To you lot I say I'm happy you haven't traveled in circles where this happens. But it does (and this is a tamer version of it anyway) and that's not what makes this book unbelievable.
No, that comes at the end of the book when you realize that Sunny is definitely an unreliable narrator. You're left wondering which way to take the book.
Did Sunny cook up this whole thing in her head after her sister, Jazz, died and her family fell apart? Did a girl really come to their door pretending to be Jazz and are her parents just in deep denial about it because it means Jazz really is dead?
And why in the hell would Sunny be sending herself a letter at the end of the book? That's what gets me. I want to know what happened after _that_!
A quick skim of some of the reviews have said that people find it unbelieavble that any family would so thoroughly favor one child over the other. To you lot I say I'm happy you haven't traveled in circles where this happens. But it does (and this is a tamer version of it anyway) and that's not what makes this book unbelievable.
No, that comes at the end of the book when you realize that Sunny is definitely an unreliable narrator. You're left wondering which way to take the book.
Did Sunny cook up this whole thing in her head after her sister, Jazz, died and her family fell apart? Did a girl really come to their door pretending to be Jazz and are her parents just in deep denial about it because it means Jazz really is dead?
And why in the hell would Sunny be sending herself a letter at the end of the book? That's what gets me. I want to know what happened after _that_!