"Wouldn't we all look guilty, if someone searched hard enough?"
Release Date: July 16th, 2013.
Description: Paperback, 388 pages.
Availability: Amazon, $11,23.
Genre: YA, Thriller.
Rating: 4 Stars.
Resume: This is the story of two girls; one alive and one dead. Anna and Elise are high school seniors and best friends. On their wild Spring Break vacation in Aruba, a tragedy strikes. When the ragged body of Elise is found, Anna's world is turned upside down. As Anna is targeted by the authorities of Aruba as the prime suspect of her best friend's atrociously violent murder, she has to clear her name before it's too late.
Review: Abigail Haas is a skilled author. Dangerous Girls is an entertaining, brilliant and well-written thriller. The timeline is organized greatly with chapters from their week in Aruba to Anna's trial with a few flashbacks of the girls' friendship. The book is written in the first person with Anna was our narrator.
Anna is the kind of girl who's likable from the very start of the novel. She's your typical girl-next-door, YA heroin. If Anna is the good girl, Elise is a wild child. She is always pushing the limits and often acts recklessly. She is the bad seed your parents warn you about. Ironically, she's the one who gets killed. The girls' friendship is great for the most part and suffocating at times. Both characters are complex in their own way. Haas created two beautifully flawed characters.
With six other teenagers on the Aruba trip along Anna and Elise, we have a wide range of suspects in Elise' murder investigation. However, the lack of backstory for many (if all) of those characters eliminates them as potential killers right off the bat. Along the way, the readers get very few clues to try and solve Elise's gruesome murder on their own. If this book has one flaw, it's that there isn't enough leads for to get lost into and cracking our brains about.
Dangerous Girls is exciting and thrilling. I enjoyed Dangerous Girls because it's a gripping and undeniable page-turner. I couldn't put it down. I had to know who killed Elise and why. Dangerous Girls is one of the best young adult thrillers I've ever read. If you are looking for a good read with a dark tone and atmosphere, you should definitely pick up a copy of Dangerous Girls.
Anna is the kind of girl who's likable from the very start of the novel. She's your typical girl-next-door, YA heroin. If Anna is the good girl, Elise is a wild child. She is always pushing the limits and often acts recklessly. She is the bad seed your parents warn you about. Ironically, she's the one who gets killed. The girls' friendship is great for the most part and suffocating at times. Both characters are complex in their own way. Haas created two beautifully flawed characters.
With six other teenagers on the Aruba trip along Anna and Elise, we have a wide range of suspects in Elise' murder investigation. However, the lack of backstory for many (if all) of those characters eliminates them as potential killers right off the bat. Along the way, the readers get very few clues to try and solve Elise's gruesome murder on their own. If this book has one flaw, it's that there isn't enough leads for to get lost into and cracking our brains about.
Dangerous Girls is exciting and thrilling. I enjoyed Dangerous Girls because it's a gripping and undeniable page-turner. I couldn't put it down. I had to know who killed Elise and why. Dangerous Girls is one of the best young adult thrillers I've ever read. If you are looking for a good read with a dark tone and atmosphere, you should definitely pick up a copy of Dangerous Girls.
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