Welcome to my stop on the official blog tour for Dead Girls Don't Lie! Today I have my review of the book to share with you and don't forget to scroll to the bottom to enter the tour wide giveaway!
Dead Girls Don't Lie
Author: Jennifer Shaw Wolf
Genre: YA Mystery/Thriller
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Publisher: Walker ChildrensBuy Links:
Description:
Rachel died at two a.m . . . Three hours after Skyler kissed me for the first time. Forty-five minutes after she sent me her last text.
Jaycee and Rachel were best friends. But that was before. . .before that terrible night at the old house. Before Rachel shut Jaycee out. Before Jaycee chose Skyler over Rachel. Then Rachel is found dead. The police blame a growing gang problem in their small town, but Jaycee is sure it has to do with that night at the old house. Rachel’s text is the first clue—starting Jaycee on a search that leads to a shocking secret. Rachel’s death was no random crime, and Jaycee must figure out who to trust before she can expose the truth.
In the follow-up to her powerful debut, Jennifer Shaw Wolf keeps readers on their toes in another dark, romantic story of murder and secrets.
I absolutely love thrillers and this novel did not leave me disappointed. The plot was written in a complex way that intertwined several smaller story lines, laced with questions and no answers. It was a complete enigma for me to unravel, unlike most other novels of the genre. Usually I like to figure out what really happened before the characters do, but I was taken completely by surprise with this one. The entire story had me guessing and just when I thought I had a piece of the puzzle in place - the author only shifted gears and proved me wrong. I loved that I couldn't solve the mystery until the end of the book along with the characters - the thrill of the chase and putting the pieces together was one of the things I loved the most about this novel. The characters were well written as well, especially that of Jaycee - our heroine. We get to see the entirety of her character - her strengths, flaws, intelligence, love for her friends, and her overwhelming guilt. Although she's broken and blames herself for not saving Rachel that night, Jaycee promises to find out who killed Rachel and why. The other characters in the novel were rounded as well, even the sideline characters and the memories of Rachel that Jaycee had were detailed. As I mentioned earlier, the writing was exceptional and the book had a naturally urgent pace that kept me eagerly devouring each page in the attempt to figure out what was really going on. There are tons of twists and turns that the reader won't see coming, which I think definitely adds to the appeal of the book. The entirety of the book - descriptions, settings, characters, occurrences - were so well detailed and vivid that I felt like I was right beside Jaycee as it was all happening. Needless to say, I will definitely be keeping an eye out for more books by this author in the future. Very highly recommended for fans of mysteries and thrillers!
Jennifer Shaw Wolf grew up on a farm in
the tiny town of St. Anthony, Idaho. She spent cold Idaho mornings
milking cows in the dark and attended a school where Hunter’s Education
was part of the sixth grade curriculum. She’s always been a writer,
whether it was sewing together books to read to her little brothers or
starting an underground newspaper in sixth grade. She met the love of
her life at Ricks College, (now BYU Idaho), after he dropped her on her
head. She graduated from Ricks and then Brigham Young University, Provo
with a degree in Broadcast Communications. Now she lives in beautiful,
green, (rainy) Lacey, Washington with her husband and four kids. She
loves to produce videos, ski, ride horses, and read, but really all she
has time for is chasing kids and writing.
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