Dead Girl Walking: Dead Girl by Linda Joy SingletonMy review
rating: 2 of 5 stars
When Amber has an out of body experience, she takes a wrong turn and ends up in the body of Leah, the richest, most popular girl in school. Now Amber has to get used to a new "somewhat" different family and a group of friends who she would never choose. How can Amber get back into her own body when she can't even convince anyone that she still exists?
This was not a terrible book, but it had many problems. One was that the characters were all "types." I'm so sick of reading teen books with the anarchist, black dressing vegan girl, the geeky techie guy friend who's just a girl with testosterone, and the vapid popular girls. Singleton does give Leah's friend, Jessica a little depth, but the rest of the popular crowd are straight out of an after school special. Also, why does Amber have to be such a ungainly clod who's the complete opposite of the body she ends up inhabiting? Isn't it possible that she could have anything in common with a popular girl? And when is a teen book going to be written where the rich parents aren't complete monsters? A steady diet of YA fiction would convince most people that all wealthy parents are evil, power hungry, controlling fiends who treat their kids like property and have more respect for their Mercedes than their own offspring. Leah's Dad was like Bart Bass (gossip girl) on steroids. Aren't there any any parents with fat wallets who also have kind hearts?
Anyway, this is a series and I couldn't even bring myself to read the sneak preview of the next book at the end of this one. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but to me this was a good plot idea that just wasn't very well written.
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