[Review] Sad Girls by Lang Leav

Sad Girls by Lang Leav

Rating: 1 star

Published: May 30th 2017

Goodreads Synopsis:

Your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to—it’s the first one who breaks it.
School is almost out for Audrey, but the panic attacks are just beginning. Because Audrey told a lie and now her classmate, Ana, is dead. Just as her world begins to spin out of control, Audrey meets the enigmatic Rad—the boy who could turn it all around. But will their ill-timed romance drive her closer to the edge?

TW: discussion of suicide, self-harm

Sad Girls, as the name suggests, is supposed to be about several sad girls. Boy was I wrong. I'm also extremely angry with this book, so I'm about to pull another one of my sassy reviews.

Audrey loses a classmate, Ana, to suicide, because of a secret Audrey spread. Honestly, you'd think that the majority of the book would be spent with Audrey coping with her guilt for this secret, but nope it was her spending time pining after Rad, Ana's boyfriend, and causing drama and havoc along the way.

[Review] We Know It Was You by Maggie Thrash

We Know It Was You by Maggie Thrash

Series: Strange Truth #1

Version: ARC Paperback

Rating: 1 star

Release Date: October 4th 2016

Goodreads Synopsis:

Twin Peaks meets Pretty Little Liars in acclaimed author Maggie Thrash’s new Strange Truth series.
It’s better to know the truth. At least sometimes.
Halfway through Friday night’s football game, beautiful cheerleader Brittany Montague—dressed as the giant Winship Wildcat mascot—hurls herself off a bridge into Atlanta’s surging Chattahoochee River.
Just like that, she’s gone.
Eight days later, Benny Flax and Virginia Leeds will be the only ones who know why.

So I went from reading The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis to this. Both books dealt with rape (this one less so, but still) and had really dark themes, but this one really took the cake for being really shitty with POC characters.

I just was really put off by the fact that the two really creepy perverts were Asian. The English girl who was from Nigeria was a rapist and creepily hypnotized everyone into fulfilling her sick fantasies. It was literally a story of - everyone who is good is white, and everyone who is a POC is a villain. Why would that be okay?