Dead Is The New Black by Marlene Perez

Dead Is The New Black by Marlene Perez

Available in The Swift Current Library?: Yes

General topics: Vampires, physic, family relationships, friendships, love, life

Rating out of 5: 4/5

Summary: Daisy Giordano lives in the small town of Nightshade that is full of the unknown, the unusual, and then unexpected. Daisy's family is well known around the town of Nightshade for their physic abilities. Daisy however is the unlucky one in the family who was born without any physic abilities a "norm" as they call her, which makes Daisy feel like the outcast has she lives with a family of physics. But things in the town of Nightshade start to get stranger when Daisy's mom is using her powers to help solve the unexplained death of a cheerleader. When the head cheerleader Samantha Devereaux shows up looking like the living dead and several other cheerleaders on the squad come down with a mysterious illness, which ages them and leaves them with white streaks in their hair. Daisy (normally she social outcast) joins the cheerleading squad to investigate Samantha and see if she may be the vampire in order to help her mom solve the case. As daisy makes the squad and begins to investigate further along with the help of a long life friend Ryan (the hottest guy in school and Daisy's best friend) she finds herself entangled in a romantic relationship with Ryan, and Daisy Giordano soon finds out that she may not be a "norm" after all.

Good points: - the main character Daisy is just your average everyday girl

- some realism - some fantasy (makes for a good read)

- only 190 pages, a good book for someone with not alot of reading skills

- appropriate for teenage readers

Bad points: - the end of the book moved to quickly

Overall review: the overall view of the book was good. it was well written, and is a good read for anyone who is not a strong reader, or anyone who is interested in vampires, physics. or just the unknown and unexpected in general. its a good book for anyone who also likes a good love story. the book moved along smoothly and was never boring, the ending, ended a little to quickly but any longer and the book would have gotten boring. it was a good length and is appropriate for teenage and adult readers.

If you liked this book try: - the two sequels coming out sometime soon (watch for them) also written by Marlene Perez

- the Twilight Sega (including: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and

Breaking Dawn) written by Stephanie Meyer

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