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Photography-lover Alexis Warren
lives in an enormous, rambling, slightly creepy house with her dysfunctional
parents and younger sister, Kasey. Alexis may dye her hair pink and disdain
most of the people at school, but her Kasey seems to be REALLY crazy: she has
an unhealthy doll-collecting obsession, and has recently been acting weird,
alternately crying tearfully and acting unlike herself. Almost as if she
were&possessed.

Alex is further convinced that
somethings not right with Kasey when strange things start occurring in the
house: doors open and close on their own, appliances turn on all by themselves.
With the help of unlikely new friendsMegan Wiley, the head cheerleader at
Surrey High, and Carter Blume, the popular new kid whom Alexis might like more
than she shouldAlexis is going to find out what the evil spirit that seems to be
haunting Kasey and inflicting harm wants.

If she can manage to do this
without be killed.

Be forewarned: dont read BAD
GIRLS DONT DIE, or you will feel the goosebumps on the back of your neck long
after you reluctantly put the book down! Katie Alenders debut YA novel is
deliciously creepy; imagine the movie The
Sixth Sense in novel form, and you can get an idea of what this book was
like.

Alexis kicked butt as a
protagonist; if Jessica Darling had a young sister who turns the popular crowd upside-down
and unfortunately finds herself in a ghost story, youd get Alexis. The
majority of the story centers around the evil ghosts mystery, which
occasionally leaves the characters slightly incomplete, at least in my opinion.
I would have no problem reading a hundred extra pages in order to better
understand important characters such as Carter, Megan, Kasey, Alexis parents,
and the ghosts history and motivation.

Despite the sometimes
overwhelmingly fast pace of the novel, however, BAD GIRLS DONT DIE is truly a
remarkable read, destined to send shivers down your spine.