*Thank you to Penguin Random House for this review copy, all thoughts are my own.
| Book Description | Shade and Jadis are everything to each other. They share clothes, toothbrushes, and even matching stick-and-poke tattoos. So when Shade unexpectedly joins the cheerleading team, Jadis can hardly recognize who her best friend is becoming. Shade loves the discipline it takes to push her body to the limits alongside these athletes. Most of all, Shade finds herself drawn to The Three Chloes–the insufferable trio that rules the squad–including the enigmatic cheer captain whose dark side is as compelling as it is alarming. Jadis won’t give Shade up so easily, though, and the pull between her old best friend and her new teammates takes a toll on Shade as she tries to forge her own path. So when one of the cheerleaders dies under mysterious circumstances, Shade is determined to get to the bottom of her death. Because she knows Jadis–and if her friend is responsible, doesn’t that mean she is, too? |
| Star Rating | ★★★★★ |
| Pro | I loved so much about this book but some of this things that I liked the most were the powerful females throughout this book, and that it that showed both the good and the bad of female friendships. I also really love how it showed how Shade really tried to forge her own path through cheerleading, and it had a kind of haunting theme throughout the entire book, kind of like impending doom. The ending was a surprise but it wasn’t like it was out of nowhere, it made sense. None of the people were amazingly good people and none were rotten to their core, they were human, and that is what made the book so unforgettable |
| Con | I wish the author had developed Chloe Clarke a little more, she seemed a little bit like a vessel for information more than a concrete character, but this is me being really nit picky. |
| Three words | Haunting, betrayal, friendship |
| Trigger Warnings | Overdosing, death, toxic relationships, drugs, murder |
