2 stars

Despite its short length, this book felt like it took me forever to get through. It took me a week to finish and I was only able to finish it that quickly because I started binge-reading it just so it would be over. (Note: I hate not finishing books.)

This is a mash up of Jawbreaker, Pretty Little Liars, and The Lovely Bones. While I wasn’t a huge fan of Pretty Little Liars, it was still an interesting read that made me want to find out what happened next. This one? Not so much. I really couldn’t care less about any of the characters. They didn’t feel real. They were all very two-dimensional and dull.

My biggest pet peeve about this book was the narration. Sutton is supposedly the narrator, but she refers to herself in the third person at times, then goes back to first person narration. This was very irritating. It read like it was originally written in the third person, then some first person comments were hurriedly added in without editing the rest.

The story itself was weirdly similar to Pretty Little Liars. I was hoping for something different, but it’s the same rich teenage girls being absolutely horrible to each other and everyone else, just with long-lost twins thrown into the mix.

The plot was also surprisingly predictable and the cliff-hanger ending was a big letdown. I think it’s pushing it to give this book a two-star review, but I don’t feel like I hated it enough to give it one star. I’m sure there is something redeemable somewhere in the text; I just can’t think of it right now.

Not a very good read. I’d recommend it to someone who enjoyed the Pretty Little Liars series and wants to read a regurgitated version of it.

I have the sequel to this book (hooray dollar clearance section), but we’ll see if I work up the effort to read it.