A review by avisreadsandreads
Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Sadly, this book doesn't work: the writing is clunky, the main character never felt authentic to me, the setup (of her working with the cops) doesn't make any sense, and many of the things she does don't either (she's also constantly getting drunk and hardly sleeps, so maybe her terrible judgement is not that surprising). But the worse part is that we're told who the killer is in the middle of the book and everything that happens after that makes even less sense...
Other reviewers claim the killer was foreshadowed early in the book, but I thought the reveal came out of nowhere.
And then the ending is such a letdown. Ugh. I really wanted to like this book so much, but really I should have DNFed it.
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