Author: Katie Alender
Language: English
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents' marriage; her doll-crazy twelve-year-old sister, Kasey; and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude. When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger. Kasey is acting stranger than ever: her blue eyes go green sometimes; she uses old-fashioned language; and she even loses track of chunks of time, claiming to know nothing about her strange behavior. Their old house is changing, too. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner turns the house cold enough to see their breath in.
Alexis wants to think that it's all in her head, but soon, what she liked to think of as silly parlor tricks are becoming life-threatening--to her, her family, and to her budding relationship with the class president. Alexis knows she's the only person who can stop Kasey -- but what if that green-eyed girl isn't even Kasey anymore?
I discovered this book just over 2 years ago. I watched the “From bad to cursed” trailer because Zendaya was in it and since then I have wanted the books. However, do you know how hard it is to find these books in the UK? Extremely hard, I couldn’t find them anywhere. So just before Christmas since my mom has no idea what to buy me she asked me to put together a Christmas list, so while I was searching through books on Amazon, I remembered this series, so I added that and on Christmas morning I had received all three of them.
I read Bad Girls Don’t die, two days ago, (I wrote this review a while ago) it was my way of procrastinating though my Psychology revision. I finished it in a couple of hours and absolutely loved it. Its honestly a great book, especially if you like horror books that aren’t the incredibly cheesy ones when the ghost just wants a friend.
I also felt the character development in this book for Alexis was brilliant. I have read a lot of books where the main character remains the same throughout the whole book but I can honestly say Alexis doesn’t, she improves throughout the story. I loved how in the first couple of chapter Alexis really went through the backstory of herself and why she doesn’t have many/any friends and I really do like the way Katie Alender wrote it, it wasn’t an overload of information at one time and it wasn’t a scattered mess either, so I have to give props to Katie for that.
Ok so this is going to contain some spoilers so if you haven’t read the book yet or if you haven’t finished it just skip the next paragraph.
So this is kind of a negative for me that I guessed the “twist” before it came about. In the book where Alexis and Megan both think it is Megan’s mom possessing Kasey, I immediately guessed that there would be a twist and the little girl from the story possessed Shara and is now possessing Kasey, that would be the only negative I can think of. That however, is not Katie Alender’s fault I do it all the time with books, TV shows and movies. I do love that although I wasn’t expecting it was Kasey going to a treatment centre afterwards, I really did appreciate that because I’ve read some horror books where all of the people are fine afterwards and they weren’t affected at all mentally, so it was refreshing to see.
It’s safe to read again :)
Overall I loved this book and I really recommend it, if you can get it. It's quick and easy read so if you want to get into the YA/ghost genre, I'd suggest this book.
I read Bad Girls Don’t die, two days ago, (I wrote this review a while ago) it was my way of procrastinating though my Psychology revision. I finished it in a couple of hours and absolutely loved it. Its honestly a great book, especially if you like horror books that aren’t the incredibly cheesy ones when the ghost just wants a friend.
I also felt the character development in this book for Alexis was brilliant. I have read a lot of books where the main character remains the same throughout the whole book but I can honestly say Alexis doesn’t, she improves throughout the story. I loved how in the first couple of chapter Alexis really went through the backstory of herself and why she doesn’t have many/any friends and I really do like the way Katie Alender wrote it, it wasn’t an overload of information at one time and it wasn’t a scattered mess either, so I have to give props to Katie for that.
Ok so this is going to contain some spoilers so if you haven’t read the book yet or if you haven’t finished it just skip the next paragraph.
So this is kind of a negative for me that I guessed the “twist” before it came about. In the book where Alexis and Megan both think it is Megan’s mom possessing Kasey, I immediately guessed that there would be a twist and the little girl from the story possessed Shara and is now possessing Kasey, that would be the only negative I can think of. That however, is not Katie Alender’s fault I do it all the time with books, TV shows and movies. I do love that although I wasn’t expecting it was Kasey going to a treatment centre afterwards, I really did appreciate that because I’ve read some horror books where all of the people are fine afterwards and they weren’t affected at all mentally, so it was refreshing to see.
It’s safe to read again :)
Overall I loved this book and I really recommend it, if you can get it. It's quick and easy read so if you want to get into the YA/ghost genre, I'd suggest this book.
4/5
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