BAD GIRLS WITH PERFECT FACES BY LYNN WEINGARTEN

2/19/2018

An interesting look at the ripple effects that one bad choice can make. I enjoyed this one. It wasn't perfect, but the ending was killer and the story flowed well.

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Genre: Young Adult Thriller and Suspense.
Series: None. Standalone.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover. Purchased.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls comes a stylish thriller about the darkness that lurks inside all of us.

When I looked up, his smile was wide and real. “Ready?” he said.
I faked a smile back. I had gotten so good at faking things.
I thought: You brought this on yourself, Sasha. You will have to pretend forever now.
He squeezed my hand again. He couldn’t begin to imagine what this actually was. He had no idea what I’d done. What any of us had.

When Sasha’s best friend Xavier gets back together with his cheating ex, Ivy, Sasha knows she needs to protect him. So

she poses as a guy online to lure Ivy away.

But Sasha’s plan goes sickeningly wrong. And she soon learns to be careful of who you pretend to be because you might be surprised by who you become…

Told in multiple points of view, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces is sexy and twisted with shocks at every turn.

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Release Date: October 31, 2017
Genre: Young Adult Thriller

Bad Girls with Perfect Faces gives readers an in depth look at how one small mistake can cause a huge ripple effect on a ton of people. When I first started reading this, I thought that it was quite dull. The first 40-50 percent of the novel follows two people who are secretly in love with one another (neither knows it though) but don't quite connect outside of being friends. Then the author adds in a bitchy and lame girlfriend who makes the guys life a living hell because she stands him up all the time and never answers his texts. It's clear to everyone that she is a lying cheat, but he doesn't want to believe it. Drama filled, right? Due to all of this I ALMOST didn't finish it. But then something changed... And the book got a lot more interesting...

MORE ABOUT THE BOOK

When you are secretly in love with someone (or even not so secretly) you will do anything in your power to protect them. This is exactly what the main character, Sasha, does for Xavier. You see, Sasha knows that Ivy is cheating on him, but he doesn't seem to be catching on to it. So she goes undercover as a male and seduces Ivy through text messages. The whole point of this all is to prove to Xavier once and for all that he is getting cheated on. But then something goes terribly wrong and Ivy is found dead on the exact night that Sasha was going to confront her. So what does she do?

As you are reading this novel you are going to go down a very dark rabbit whole and the title of the story is going to make a lot of sense to you. You are going to FEEL every bit of the thrill and every aspect of the suspense the happens. You will also get very deep into the mind of someone who is not quite right in the head... I think you'll enjoy the ride. Just be sure to expect the unexpected. Because you probably won't see the ending coming until it is literally dropped in your lap.

OVERALL THOUGHTS OF THE BOOK

Overall, I LIKED this book. I didn't love it because as I mentioned above, the beginning of it was pretty dull (for me). But I can see why the author treated the first half of this book as such. It's kind of like the big build up to the bang. So on a whole, I enjoyed the book for the most part.

If you're looking for a twisty read, this would certainly be a good one for you. It's fast paced, interesting, and has a lot going on. The characters are all pretty messed up in their own right, and I liked how we got to get into their heads. However, be warned that the book goes from first person POV to third depending on the character narration. I thought this was a bit bizarre but also clever.