I mean, I hate when I read some silly NYTimes Style Section article about how hip librarians are because, duh, I don't need the NYTimes telling me I rock, but dude. end, so don't worry), so it totally has that same indulgent feel of a Disney Channel Original Movie (think Watcher in the Woods for spook factor) - great while you're reading it, but when it's over, it's over.Īlso, I was kind of annoyed by the librarians in the book. It is published by Disney (weird, right? that's not evident at all until the v. I couldn't put this book down at the time, but it's been a few weeks now since I read it and it's getting hard to remember. No one but one of the current Disney brats could do justice to Kasey's annoying mood swings, so here's Debby Ryan from one of those Suite Life shows. I actually pictured Julia Stiles as Lexi, so there's really no contest. It's not exactly how teenagers talk, but it works.ĭude, demonic possession and creepy dolls! Guaranteed to make you change the channel the next time one of those Madame Alexander Collector infomercials comes on. The cheerleaders are (mostly) mean, the internal monologue is sufficiently angsty ('Did I just say that? I could die' kind of stuff), but it works cos it doesn't try too hard. The narration is pretty straightforward - like, not much OMG or totally you know. Lots of waiting around for the right moment, and sensible decision making about timing blah blah blah - BOOO-RING! Gimme some make-outs! Um, I mean, wow, look at them establish a friendship first before jumping into boyfriend-girlfriend stuff. His and Lexi's flirtation has its electric tingle moments, but it's pretty tame.

She's also willing to admit she's wrong about some people, like cool cheerleader Megan who ends up helping her defeat the ghost possessing Kasey.Ĭarter Blume's the typical popular guy with a deep soul - the new kid with secrets who reinvented himself when he switched schools. Reminds me of Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You.

She revels in her outsider status and always has a cause worth fighting for, which usually gets her in big trouble at school.

Lexi's pretty cool - she's a photographer (she has a darkroom in her house!!), she's smart and sassy. Of course, the 'rents are too busy being career mom and loser dad to notice anything, and it's up to loner Lexi to overcome her outsider tendencies and save her sister - and a bunch of other people's lives, too (including the popular cheerleaders, natch). a little weird to begin with) - she breaks her best friend's arm, she becomes obsessed with the genealogy of the town's oldest families and (weirdest of all) her blue eyes turn green. Then Kasey starts acting more strangely than usual (she's already obsessed with dolls, so she's def. Out photographing her spooky-but-cool Victorian house in the middle of the night, Lexi notices a strange light hovering outside her sister's window. BOOK REPORT for Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die Book 1) by Katie Alender

Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender