I can’t remember where I heard about this book or why I jotted it down on the ever-expanding list of books to read that is constantly being updated in my phone. But then I happened upon it at the library while looking for something else and said, well there had to have been a reason I wanted to remember it for later, right? Turns out my intuition was wrong this time, as this was not an enjoyable one in my opinion. It’s funny, I actually […]
I really hated these bitches
So I read Girls on Fire immediately after the lovely summer romance of Aristotle & Dante, and while listening to the audiobook of The Rest of Us Just Live Here (which I’m about to review, but let me just say here that it featured some of my favorite YA characters/relationships EVER). So maybe those warm and fuzzy feelings just accentuated the awfulness of the girls in this novel. But really — I totally wanted to actually set these bitches on fire. “I took up space. I was a collection […]
Every girl needs her secrets
Nothing much ever happens in Battle Creek, PA until Halloween 1991 when high school basketball star Craig shoots himself in the woods, shaking the nerves of a town that already has teens partaking in Satanic rituals. Hannah Dexter, who is perennially on the fringe of the social scene, befriends new girl Lacey shortly after Craig’s death. Lacey worships at the alter of Kurt Cobain, she has a troubled home life but a charismatic aura. Hannah falls under Lacey’s spell and is rechristened “Dex”- the two become inseparable. Teenage […]