Item: Girls on Fire
Rating: 2.00
Author: leahmichelle

by Robin Wasserman

'Captivating' Sunday Times

'Will utterly terrify you - in the best way possible' Buzzfeed

'While it is a mystery, the true strength of the novel comes from the honesty of the girls' portrayal' Guardian

'A hypnotic debut' Elle

'We couldn't put this one down' Marie Claire

This is not a story of bad things happening to bad girls. I say this because I know you, Dex, and I know how you think.

I'm going to tell you a story, and this time, it will be the truth.

Hannah Dexter is a nobody, ridiculed and isolated at school by golden girl Nikki Drummond. But in their junior year of high school, Nikki's boyfriend walks into the woods and shoots himself. In the wake of the suicide, Hannah befriends new girl Lacey and soon the pair are inseparable, bonded by their shared hatred of Nikki.

Lacey transforms good girl Hannah into Dex who is up for any challenge Lacey throws at her. The two girls bring their combined wills to bear on the community in which they live and think they are invulnerable.

But Lacey has a secret, about life before her better half, and it's a secret that will change everything . . .

So, this book has a lot of positive reviews, but it also has its fair share of negative reviews, proving that this is very much a Marmite kind of book. I don't really know how I felt about the book. For one, I love toxic friendship novels and this was right up there, but it didn't manage to maintain it's stamina for the whole novel. Not helped by the fact that Lacey just disappears. That's where I lost my focus, and by the time she came back, I was already gone. So it really needed a good chunk of the book taken out, because I just lost interest when Lacey left, because it was like all the air was let out of a balloon.

I wanted to absolutely love this book and up until it became overly religious/dependant on the devil nonsense (and it is nonsense) I just lost interest, because that's just not my cup of tea. It started strongly, but it really lost its way over half way into the novel, which just made me sad, because I wanted to be as passionate about this book as everyone else seems to be. (I fear I'm entering a reading slump. SEND ME HELP.)

Girls on Fire

by Robin Wasserman

Reviewed by Leah on Jun 26, 2016

Reading updates