![]() She is usually callous and sometimes mean. The story falls on the shoulders of Alexis who is, at best, a deeply flawed character. She is also incredibly skilled at writing scenes that begin with the easily explained and end with the truly terrifying. ![]() Katie Alender does an excellent job of creating that delicious sense of suspense that only truly great scary stories can achieve. Even so, I could only read it in bed if my husband was there. This is my second time reading Bad Girls Don't Die. Alexis knows she's the only person who can stop Kasey - but what if that green-eyed girl isn't even Kasey anymore? 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.Īlexis 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. 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. When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger. ![]() ![]() Dysfunctional like her parents' marriage her doll-crazy twelve-year-old sister, Kasey and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude. Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. ![]()
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