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If you have not read Dead Is So Last Year, then read at your own risk, this contains spoilers!
If you have not read Dead Is So Last Year, then read at your own risk, this contains spoilers!
The Gist
It’s Daisy’s senior year. She has an amazing boyfriend, an awesome best friend, loving sisters, and her dad is finally back! She assumes everything will be perfect from here on in. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Problem one: her dad. Though it’s great to have him back after all these years, he’s having problems adjusting. He treats Daisy like a twelve year old - like no time has passed since he’s been away. He rarely leaves the house, and gets worried easily, and worst of all, he always gives Daisy’s boyfriend, Ryan, a hard time. And Daisy has no idea why. Problem two: Circe Silvertongue, famous cook extraordinaire. In a summer cooking competition Daisy placed in second and won eight cooking lessons with the famous cooking TV star. Daisy would have been thrilled…except Circe turns out to have a huge temper and an even bigger ego. Problem three: blackmail. Select members of Nightshade have been receiving blackmail with a red wax seal and no one has any clue as to who is to blame. To add to the confusion, the 200th anniversary of Nightshade’s founding is coming up – on Halloween of course – and Samantha has them all busy planning and decorating for the main event. As usual, Daisy is determined to do it all and solve a mystery in the meantime.
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed by Dream Catcher
Number of Pages: 216
To begin this review, I came up with a cheesy and extremely lame rhyme. Here it is… One, two, three, four! So many Dead books, give us more! Hahaha…yeah, that was pretty bad. But, thankfully this book was not. Out of all the books in the Dead is… series, I have to say this one is (probably) my favorite. The plot had many different parts to it, and Daisy had to deal with a lot of problems all at once, which made the overall idea a lot more interesting. Not only that, but the characters we all know and love from the previous books in the series are back, along with some surprising new additions. Such as…Daisy’s father (not too surprising after the end of Dead is So Last Year), Circe, and Circe’s pet pig Balthazar. New, but still quite interesting. What I really liked about this book was that I was always eager to read more. There were no slow points where I would put the book down and not come back to it for a while. Nope. I basically sat down and read it right through (not that hard, considering it was only 201 pages long). Another great thing: it kept me guessing. Nothing was too predictable. Marlene Perez kept you asking questions right up till she got to answer them for you. No predictability, but there was that AHA! moment you get right when you figured something out and are kind of proud of yourself. A good book can do that. The characters were another high point. You love the old ones just as much (Daisy, Ryan, Poppy, Sam, ect.) but you find that the new ones add something to the book. Something the book wouldn’t have if Perez only had the old characters. The only thing I didn’t like was how short it was. I kind of wish it could be a little longer. 201 pages isn’t tiny, but it isn’t a big book either. I finished it in a day and I wasn’t even rushing! Anyways, if you likedDead is the New Black, Dead is a State of Mind, and Dead is So Last Year, you’re going to love Dead is Just a Rumor. There’s romance, there’s suspense, there’s mystery, and of course there’s paranormal weirdness (I mean, come on. It’s Nightshade!). It’ll keep you interested until the last of those 201 pages. Stay tuned for Marlene Perez’s next and final book in the Dead is… Series, Dead is Not an Option coming spring of 2011.
Real Teen Rating~ B+ : Wait for Vacation.
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