Dare Me by Megan Abbott

Dare Me by Megan Abbott

Publisher: Little Brown & Company, August 2013

Pages: Hardcover, 290 pages

Genre: Young Adult Fiction

Rating: 1.5/5 stars

Summary (from chapters.indigo.ca):

Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls - until the young new coach arrives.

Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl" - both with the team and with Addy herself.

Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death - and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain.

Review:

NOPE! I don't even know where to go with this book. It has been sitting on my shelf for 4 years after having received it for review... I tried to destash it a couple of times but after reading the synopsis, I thought it sounded decent and it was short so what the heck. However, it was horrible!

There was NO plot, NO character development, NO point and it felt like it was a book that was written without a purpose. I couldn't decide if it was trying to be a Mean Girls rip-off or if it wanted to be a murder mystery... I honestly just can't.