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2.69 AVERAGE
2.69 AVERAGE
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Holly Marshall desperately wants to be a cheerleader, which means sucking up to the two mean girls who are judges, even though they are cruel about Alison Walker, Holly's best friend from years ago who apparently just died in a car accident.
As Holly battles to get onto the team (why?), she starts receiving phone calls from somebody who sounds just like Alison, and threatening notes with writing just like Alison's - and cheerleaders start to die!
The nastiness of all the female characters in this book was quite overwhelming! It got very tiresome to read about. Even Holly isn't all that nice! She was astonishingly bone-headed in terms of the threats she got, always finding thin excuses for not telling anybody. Thankfully, the book didn't really try to play with the back-from-the-dead angle. I find that so annoying in 90s YA! Someone at least has the common sense to tell Holly that her troubles are likely the work of somebody pretending to be Alison. Good thing, too, as Holly is TSTL enough to believe she's being stalked by a ghost!
For the most part, I was going with two stars as it was all extremely obvious and predictable. I mean, could it have been more obvious who Holly's stalker was?!? But the final third threw in enough cheesiness and melodrama and silly thrills to bring a smile to my face, so I lifted my rating!
As Holly battles to get onto the team (why?), she starts receiving phone calls from somebody who sounds just like Alison, and threatening notes with writing just like Alison's - and cheerleaders start to die!
The nastiness of all the female characters in this book was quite overwhelming! It got very tiresome to read about. Even Holly isn't all that nice! She was astonishingly bone-headed in terms of the threats she got, always finding thin excuses for not telling anybody. Thankfully, the book didn't really try to play with the back-from-the-dead angle. I find that so annoying in 90s YA! Someone at least has the common sense to tell Holly that her troubles are likely the work of somebody pretending to be Alison. Good thing, too, as Holly is TSTL enough to believe she's being stalked by a ghost!
For the most part, I was going with two stars as it was all extremely obvious and predictable. I mean, could it have been more obvious who Holly's stalker was?!?