Sorry, I couldn't read this one. The file was all wonky. I love Damien's work, so I'm sure the book is great. I'll have to wait until it gets released to get a proper copy.

I have to give a star rating to leave this, so I'm basing my stars off DAW's past works.

A glorious tale of practicality and paranormal. Walters eloquently delivers a decisive narrative told from varying points in time. The psyche of the narrator is questionable as are her actions, which adds to the obscurity of the story. The plot and characters are well-developed, the story holds a perfect amount of tension, and the ending delivers the punch a book of this genre should. A fantastic thriller by all aspects.

Thank you to #NetGalley for this ARC of #TheDeadGirlsClub

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you NetGalley.
The Dead Girls Club... wow. The cover is GORGEOUS. The blurb really drew me in.
It was a little slow to start, but once it drew me in, holy cow. You won't regret reading this book.

This was a good book. It was well written and with an interesting idea. However, I felt a little let down by the ending. I didn’t think the potential of the story was carried all the way through. I really was rooting for the main character, and I think her trajectory in the story was fantastic. However, there were a couple of places that built towards what would have been an awesome plot twist, but it didn’t happen. And then there were places that plot twists happened and were just headscratching. They came out of the blue and disappeared again in a puff of smoke with no real impact on the story. I enjoyed the story, but it is not my favorite book.

tw: abuse, drug abuse, child neglect, alcoholism, death

Warning: don't read this book before bed. 1) It's too creepy. 2) I couldn't put this book down. It is quick and one heck of a thrill-ride. My favorite element of this book is how creepy it is. The book's release should be closer to Halloween rather than December! This is the absolute PERFECT, creepy Halloween read! 5 stars!

Thanks to the Crooked Lane Books and Netgalley for this digital ARC in exchange for my honest opinions and review. 4 stars for me! I loved the creep factor in this book and being able to be inside Heather's head as she narrated throughout the story. Heather felt like such an unreliable narrator, which I loved because it made me question whether or not what she remembered was true, whether she really did commit the crime she thought she did, and made me question just about every step she took throughout the book. Even though I had an inside look into her head, I felt like one of the characters in the story, wanting to know what the hell was going on with her and what was happening. Was she imagining what was happening or was someone, or something, really after her? It's definitely a question that you'll ask yourself as she read this book and when you finally get the answer, you won't believe the truth.

The story itself was intriguing, but the writing fell a little flat for me. I loved the past plot with the Red Lady, but present day Heather was a mess. The chewing of cuticles got a little tired after a few chapters. I’d still recommend this title. It has the potential to find the perfect audience.

WOOF! This was good.

The start plods along, but somewhere mid book the author hits the gas and the reader is left with a very uneasy feeling that our narrator is wrong very wrong about what happened to her childhood best friend.

This was equal parts creepy coming of age tale, and hair pin turn thriller.

I did not expect the twists that were revealed at all, the sneaking suspicion that all is not what it seems was definitely confirmed but not the way I had pieced together.

A fantastic read for folks who like their female characters flawed and somewhat unlikable (I stan a complex lady!) , and seamless jumping back and forward in time.

Thoroughly enjoyed The Dead Girls Club!

Oh my gosh!! I read this book in a day and a half. It sucked me in, I couldn’t stop turning the pages.

I had to know how Becca died, and who all actually knew about it. Who was taunting Heater and making her feel crazy, and if Gia and Rachel had anything to do with it.

This is definitely a must read!!!

I enjoyed this book, and the very end was a good twist. I stayed up way past my bedtime to finish it. Will definitely read more from this author.

I love books in which you can’t tell whether the narrator is reliable or not, and this was exactly that! Don’t read this book alone at night, you’ll be checking behind your shower curtain and opening closet doors — it’s incredibly creepy! And the story was unique and fascinating until the final page.

Thanks to #netgalley, & #damienangelicawalters for this ARC copy of #thedeadgirlsclub


This was an incredibly fast read that ended with me wanting to know more and hopefully will come out with a second book or a spin off based on this one. Read this book if you like creepy mystery-filled stories with multiple twists and turns.

I loved The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters. It perfectly captured the intense friendships between pre teen girls in the early 90’s. I remember well what those were like. There was a sense of dread as little by little what happened to Becca and Heather was revealed. I was actually scared at night when I turned out the lights to go to bed! I look forward to more books by this author! Thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

"You can't do what I did and come out on the other side unchanged."

The overview does a great job of providing what is exactly going to unfold in the book. There is a group of four friends who are in the "Dead Girls Club" where they love discussing serial killers and horror stories. However, things take a dark turn when Becca starts telling a story about the "Red Lady."

The book is split between two time frames, "Then" and "Now." Heather is our main character and I felt myself becoming increasingly frustrated with her as I could not really tell what was real or what was imagined. At times, I just wanted to shake her and say "get a hold of yourself." What triggers this behavior is when a half heart BFF necklace shows up. This was the necklace she and Becca shared as young girls. From here more notes arrive, things in her house are slightly moved, and Heather really starts to become unhinged.

I enjoyed the "Then" portions because you could really see how it gets to the point it gets to. The Red Lady story starts destroying each of the girls lives and it has you thinking, "is she real? or is this just mass hysteria?" I could understand being a young girl and probably feeling this same exact way.

What throws me is the ending. Without giving anything up, there were just a lot of moving parts that provided closure but I felt something was missing. I cannot put my finger on it exactly but it felt a little rushed but the book was fully resolved but I could not help but second guessing Heather.

I did like this book so I hope that others do read this as it is a good book and keeps you on your toes but I just do not think I would personally, reread it.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest opinions.

4.5/5 This book started out strong, became a bit repetitive and lagging in the middle but ended strong and with a satisfying closure. The anticipation for “who” and “how” to be answered were intense and the storyline could have gone so many ways and I absolutely loved the way it went. The flipping back and forth from now to then kept me intrigued and the psychological bits made me question what I thought I knew about the characters. The friendship felt real, the sadness was real, the topic of child abuse and alcoholism also felt very real. I was thinking about the red lady when I wasn’t reading and that to me is a sign of a great book. Will recommend!

The Dead Girls Club is a great, fast paced thriller that has some supernatural-type elements. This is very atmospheric and I felt like I was inside the book at times. Throughout the book, I could feel my heart pounding and I felt dread at turning the pages for fear of what might happen next!

Heather and Becca are best friends. They belong to a group known as 'The Dead Girls Club', along with their two other friends. Together, they tell stories of creepy happenings, serial killers and other horror filled stories. One day, things in the group change drastically when Becca begins her story of The Red Lady. Becca's obsession with The Red Lady soon overtook the group. Her belief was so strong, she ends up getting killed. Years later, Heather recieves a package. Inside the package is a necklace, one that Heather hasn't seen since that fateful night, the night she killed Becca.

Someone knows what she did and they are out to make sure she is punished.

Great twists and scary thriller! I didn't see the ending coming either. This book will keep you up!

(On a side note: The Dead Girls Club is so something I would've been in as a teenager!)

Thank you Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for this ARC.

Thank you so much to NetGalley for this ARC! It's been a long time since I've read a horror novel that has stayed with me like this one has. In between reading, it occupied my thoughts when I let my mind wander and has plagued my dreams at night. I rushed home after work to continue the story, trying as hard as I could to finish it even though I never wanted it to end. It was all too easy to see myself and my friend group from when I was a kid as the Dead Girls Club, and maybe that's why it effected me so, but either way, it was an expertly crafted scary story.

Heather is an adult who seems to be doing very well for herself. A good job working with kids, a happy marriage, stable friends her age-- but there's a secret she's been harboring that lies just beneath her spotless veneer. She murdered her best friend when she was a kid and got away with it. No one else knows; Becca's body was never found, and her mother, Lauren, was pinned with the crime. When Heather begins to personal items that belonged to Becca in the mail, she begins a steady decline into a sort of madness. This descent brings up long buried memories from her past, and chapters of Heather's present are interwoven with scenes from her past.

In these scenes, we meet the Dead Girls Club. Heather, Becca, and their two friends, Gia and Rachel, bonded over a shared love of the macabre, and when they had their club meetings they would take turns telling stories. They were mostly stories about serial killers, local murder victims, or the supernatural, but one day, Becca sits them down in an abandoned house her mom is selling to tell them about the Red Lady. She was a witch who was horrifically murdered centuries ago, but who lives on to make deadly bargains with those who ask for her help. Once Becca starts telling her stories, things quickly make a turn for the worse. The girls all start having nightmares and phantom pains, and Becca withdraws from Heather, ending in a night that changed Heather's life forever.

Heather's anxiety and fear pushes everyone she loves away from her. She was suspicious of everything and I got to a point where I wasn't sure if I should trust anything she said or saw, because she was truly one step away from losing it completely. I liked the unreliable narrator factor, and how we were given very plausible cause for every character we met to be who had finally found Heather out. Her life spins out of control, and I was left breathless trying to decide whether there really ever was a Red Lady, or if, like it goes so many times in life, the Dead Girls Club made up something to shield them from the glimpses of real life that they had come across far too young.

I really could go on and on about this book, but I'm trying not to reveal too much. It very well may be my favorite read of 2019, and it hasn't even been published yet! I was hooked on this original tale, and could have never guessed the ending. I know that I'll be thinking about this story for awhile now; maybe even seeing the Red Lady in my dreams for many nights to come. Thank you, Damien, for the haunting and intricately woven spider's web that you've weaved. I'm the fly, and I'll never be free.

I have to be honest, when I got approved for this ARC I had completely forgotten what this book was about, so I was going in blind. I didn’t realize that this book was kind of a horror and I wasn’t expecting that at all. I thought it was nothing more than a mystery/thriller and it was just so much more than that.

This book is told through two parts. There's Heather in the present and Heather when she was only twelve years old. I have to admit, it was definitely more interesting reading Heathers story when she was a child. Her and her friends had dubbed themselves The Dead Girls Club and they would get together and talk about serial killers. One day however, Heathers best friend came up with a story about The Red Lady, a sort of urban legend where if you gave a sacrifice, the Red Lady would do something for you. The stories were absolutely horrifying in my opinion and honestly made me so paranoid.

I didn’t enjoy the present chapters all that much. Mostly Heather is trying to deal with guilt that she has been carrying with her since she was twelve and someone is leaving her momentos from her past, making her believe that someone knows what happened all those years ago. She tries to investigate people from her past and see who it could possibly be. I think what I did enjoy about this book was that I didn’t see the twist coming. I was so focused on this urban legend, I didn’t even think about who could possibly be sending all these things to Heather. This book was definitely interesting and I really enjoyed the urban legend twist to it.

'In stories, blood smells of old coins. An apt description. What those stories fail to mention is that the smell lingers, not on your skin, but in your memory. You can't ever wash it away.'

And with that paragraph, I was instantly sucked into the story and this book was mine to fall in love with.

The Dead Girls Club is a tale after my own heart. A group of young girls obsessed with serial killers, urban legends, and creepy stories? A retelling of my own youth. Heather is now in her 30s and is a successful child psychologist with a dark past and that past has come back to haunt her. Literally. I was instantly gripped by the wild turns that this book took and at several points questioned our dear protagonist's own sanity. The author does an amazing job with her storytelling and I was not expecting the end at all. Can I also mention how beautiful this cover is? I'm looking forward to more of the author's works in the future. This was a fantastic read and my only negative is that I finished reading this at night and I'm kind of afraid of what kind of dreams I'll have. Please pray that I don't wake up with a mouth full of dirt.

Thank you very much to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review. This review will be published on Goodreads indefinitely 06/26/2019 :)

This book was everything I love about a good thriller; relationships, murder, and a dash of 80's nostalgia to remind me of my childhood. This story delves into a missing person (I won’t ruin it and say who) and is divided between the main character, Heather’s childhood past and adult life. Someone is sending Heather haunting messages and, as the book progresses, you’re taken along the journey to figure out who it is and why they’re stalking Heather.

The past takes a look at Heather’s life with best friend Becca and two other girlfriends, Gia and Regina, who make up the Dead Girls Club. They talk about all-the-things teen girls do, being liked, friendship, and growing apart. It felt completely relatable to me, as a woman and the mom of a pre-teen girl. While the relationship between Becca and her mom is tough because it hints at child abuse and alcoholism, you’re so entwined in the story you just want to reach out and help her. I also found myself much more connected to Heather's relationships in the past versus her current relationships with her husband, best friend, and co-worker (two names which I kept confusing). The characters from Heather's childhood feel more developed and I was much more drawn to the past, versus Heather’s current life.

The present time follows Heather into what can only be described as madness and she wonders if she’s losing her mind as a series events lead her to ponder her past. Who is sending these relics from her childhood and why are they doing it? The story is fast-paced and definitely kept me guessing. I had my ideas about who might be involved, but as I got to the end, I found a huge relief to finally know the truth-there were so many possibilities. I was truly committed to this book from start to finish and found myself looking forward to picking up where I left off – in the car, in the kitchen, I had to know how it ended.

I highly recommend this book and give it 5 out of 5 stars. Check it out!