This is a read littered with broken glass. Despite the misleading American cover, this is not a breezy beachy read. Because Anna is very engaging, and her circumstances are so very terrible, and there's a horrible development every minute as truth perception become totally twisted. Some chapters have the format of a deposition, some of a television report, but most are from Anna's point of view, which is both painful and wonderful.

I felt sick the whole time I was reading this, but in a good way. The plot jumps around in time to better give you a full picture of the circumstances, and you don't breathe once while it does it, either. It seizes on to your brain and doesn't let go, even as it horrifies you through tense trial scenes, horrific flashbacks, and painful memories. Soon she's imprisoned in a foreign country and is on trial for her life-all while she scrambles to find out who's lying, and who's a murderer. And things become even worse when Anna becomes the target of the prosecution. What should be a week of partying and boozing turns into a nightmare when her best friend Elise is brutally murdered. And it will make you do this:Īnna, a girl from an elite private school in Boston, goes to Aruba with her friends for spring break. This is a crazy, ripped-from-the-headlines ride that will make you never want to go on vacation or make friends or talk to people again. Nothing about Dangerous Girls feels forced or amateur or anything other than brilliantly done. I can't believe they exist even on the same planet, let alone that they came from the same person's brain. Dangerous Girls is brutal, ugly, and full of mind-fuckery. Abigail Haas is the pen name of Abby McDonald, who wrote a book I enjoyed, Getting Over Garett Delaney. The story: I did not realize this book was written under a pseudonym. It's sharp and dynamic and utterly frightening, just like the book. The cover: I refuse to even SHOW you the American cover, because it's wretched, and choose only to focus on the UK edition, which is luckily the one I have. And when the whole story comes out, reality is more shocking That everyone around her thinks she is not only guilty, but alsoĭangerous. Sets out to find her friend’s killer, she discovers harsh revelationsĪbout her friendships, the slippery nature of truth, and the ache ofĪwaiting the judge’s decree, it becomes clear to Anna

Her own, fighting against vile and contemptuous accusations. Is found brutally murdered, Anna finds herself trapped in a country not Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friendĮlise, and a few other close friends are off on a debaucherous trip toĪruba that promises to be the time of their lives. Ripped from the headlines and a twist that defies the imagination. Quickly gets gruesome in this thrilling page-turner with a plot that’s

Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas