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A review by megsbookishtwins
Say Her Name by Juno Dawson
5.0
“Some people just shine a bit brighter than others and it's got nothing to do with what they look like.”
Bobbie Rowe is not someone to get scared easily, or to believe in ghosts. However, when on Halloween Bobbie and her friend Naya and a boy called Caine call Bloody Mary 5 times in the bathroom mirror of her spooky boarding school, Bobbie is not so sure about ghosts. On the next morning, Bobbie find a message on the bathroom mirror - five days. Things get more creepy and more unexplainable and Bobbie and her friends have no choice but to believe that ghost are real and they did infact call Bloody Mary and they have five days to escape her.
Say Her Name first came to my attention when someone recommended it to me last year when I was looking for Halloween books to read and I've wanted to read it since. So I was super excited when I went into Say Her Name and expected great things. Thankfully it did not disappoint.
If anyone is going into Say Her Name expecting a terrifying horror story probably should lower their expectations. While I would imagine it may scare some readers, such as those who are easily scared, but those who aren't probably shouldn't expect anything that terrifying. However, there was definitely an eerie and sinister atmosphere which James Dawson wrote excellently. It was tense and it made my heart pounce because I just did not know what to expect and I had no clue what would happen. There were so many different twist and turns and the mystery was excellent and all the way through there was fear and a sense of foreboding.
The ending of Say Her Name gave me chills. I was left with a sense that everything you knew was wrong, and it was fantastic. I was utterly shocked at the end and I was just saying to myself 'Oh, no, what has she done?'. The closer to the ending you got, the more you questioned everything you knew about Bloody Mary. Fantastic.
I really liked the friendship between Bobbie and Naya, and you could sense that they really cared about each other, despite the focus not being on the friendship. The friendship was the more interesting part over the relationship. The relationship was nice, yet unnecessary. I was glad that it was not at the forefront and the mystery and their potential doom was what captured Bobbie and Caine's attention more, rather than their attraction to each other.
Overall, a fantastic and creepy story which you should definitely have a look at.
Bobbie Rowe is not someone to get scared easily, or to believe in ghosts. However, when on Halloween Bobbie and her friend Naya and a boy called Caine call Bloody Mary 5 times in the bathroom mirror of her spooky boarding school, Bobbie is not so sure about ghosts. On the next morning, Bobbie find a message on the bathroom mirror - five days. Things get more creepy and more unexplainable and Bobbie and her friends have no choice but to believe that ghost are real and they did infact call Bloody Mary and they have five days to escape her.
Say Her Name first came to my attention when someone recommended it to me last year when I was looking for Halloween books to read and I've wanted to read it since. So I was super excited when I went into Say Her Name and expected great things. Thankfully it did not disappoint.
If anyone is going into Say Her Name expecting a terrifying horror story probably should lower their expectations. While I would imagine it may scare some readers, such as those who are easily scared, but those who aren't probably shouldn't expect anything that terrifying. However, there was definitely an eerie and sinister atmosphere which James Dawson wrote excellently. It was tense and it made my heart pounce because I just did not know what to expect and I had no clue what would happen. There were so many different twist and turns and the mystery was excellent and all the way through there was fear and a sense of foreboding.
The ending of Say Her Name gave me chills. I was left with a sense that everything you knew was wrong, and it was fantastic. I was utterly shocked at the end and I was just saying to myself 'Oh, no, what has she done?'. The closer to the ending you got, the more you questioned everything you knew about Bloody Mary. Fantastic.
I really liked the friendship between Bobbie and Naya, and you could sense that they really cared about each other, despite the focus not being on the friendship. The friendship was the more interesting part over the relationship. The relationship was nice, yet unnecessary. I was glad that it was not at the forefront and the mystery and their potential doom was what captured Bobbie and Caine's attention more, rather than their attraction to each other.
Overall, a fantastic and creepy story which you should definitely have a look at.