DEAD GIRLS starts off with a fabulous flashback to the event two months before. It's the kind of start that made me go, wow, I need to read more. Alas, for this book just didn't fulfill my hope of a truly captivating thriller. For one thing, the story is a bit messy, it's hard to keep up with what is going on and all the characters. I had to reread parts and go back in the story to keep track of the characters. And, it just makes the story hard to read. I really wanted to like the book. However, along the way, I felt I lost track of what was going on, over and over again. DEAD GIRLS is the second book in the Normal series, and I don't know if it would have been better to have read NORMAL first. This book, however, does feel like a stand-alone.

I would say that if you loved NORMAL then the chances of loving this book is probably good. Personally, this book just didn't do the trick for me. I kept on waiting for the story to make sense, but I never got that feeling. I did want to know how it all would end. In a way, this book reflects Ali's state of mind, which is messy.

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