I had a hard time getting all the way through this book. I was looking forward to a twisty thriller like the synopsis seems to have promised but overall the plot and pacing fell flat for me.

However, most of my lack of enthusiasm comes from not being overly interested in any of the characters, especially Piper and Savannah. Piper was painted as the typical smart and all around perfect little student, which we've all read probably an uncountable amount of times, and she seemed to lack an actual personality beyond that, even in the flashback style chapters. As for Savannah, most of the time she came off as obnoxious to me, and it's hard to believe that she would even be able to convince anybody to want to be her friend, much less help her figure out what happened to Piper on the night of her incident. I understand that she's supposed to be an unreliable narrator, which I usually love to read, but overall I don't think her voice or general tone was a great fit for the story.

Overall this was not the right book for me, but if you're looking for a quick thriller it might be a good fit for you.

Thank you to NetGalley, Sourcebooks Fire, and Chelsea Ichaso for allowing me to read this e-ARC!

CW/TW: mentions of suicide

I love mysteries because I'm always trying to predict what's going to happen next to solve the crime before it's revealed to me. Going into the book, I KNEW that a part of the author's plot description tells us we have an "unreliable narrator" (so no spoilers here). YET with every twist I let myself be led up, down, side to side believing it all!!! I enjoyed getting tangled up in this spiderweb of a Clue-like mystery, everyone is a suspect! Everyone has a motive!

Savannah's little sister Piper has been in a coma ever since she was found fallen off the local viewpoint. The two sisters haven't been the closest pair nor are they similar at all but Savannah is on the hunt to figure out what really happened to Piper before she fell. On her wild goose hunt, she uncovers Piper-related secrets and secrets of her own in hopes to figure out what really happened to her little sister.

Will post book review on GoodReads and Instagram on 3/22/22

An easy to read, whodunnit, full of twists & turns!

This book started off very slow for me and seemed to really drag up until 2/3 of the way through. The whodunnit at the ending seemed really rushed to me, it just didn't seem to have enough information to pinpoint that person. But I did like how the ending seemed to point to a possible sequel, so I would be open to reading that.

I kept thinking this story was going one way and then another, a great mystery/thriller for young adults.

3/5
This is a good book if you love the YA genre and mysteries. Savannah is trying to find out who killed her sister and what happened to her at all costs. I think this book was a little bit predictable at times, but it was easy and quick and the mystery was intriguing. I would've enjoyed this much more during my teenage years but overall it's a good read.

I would really recommend this book to teens/young adults, and definitely plan to suggest it to a few of my older pupils!

Piper in a coma due to an 'accidental' fall - but was it an accident? And if it wasn't, who pushed her? Her sister Savannah is on the case to find out the truth of what really happened that day.

When I read novels like this I'm usually pretty set on who I think the main suspect is, but not with this! I was changing my mind constantly and several characters had me very suspicious!

After her sister’s “accident” Savannah is determined to find out what happened. Everyone believes that it was an accident or that she had done it on purpose.. but Savannah believes something else happened to her sister. To get to the bottom of it she retraces her sister’s last steps and ends up joining the survival club that her sister was in. With only a note saying to meet at the survival club... Savannah is in for a weekend she’ll never forget. She joins in on the camping trip and as she starts to investigate the people around her she begins to uncover more secrets and suspects than she could have thought before. Throw in devious friendships, betrayals, drama, and secrets that could destroy people, Savannah will have to uncover the culprit and find a way to survive this camping trip. The suspects include Noah- Piper’s boyfriend whom she was in love with, Jacey, Piper’s best friend, Alexandra, Piper’s rival in new’s club, Tyler a goth kid who has a secret, Abby and Sam a couple, and Mr Davis, Piper’s favorite teacher. This was definitely a fun mystery story! I kept trying to guess who did it and the twist and turn were interesting. Uncovering everyone’s secret and recreating the day that Piper fell from the mountain through various character’s perspective and part in the day was a good way to create the story.

*Thanks Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Fire, Sourcebooks Fire for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

Highly recommend this thriller by Ichaso! Flawed characters, cool setting, lots of twists and turns! I will be ordering a copy for my middle school classroom as well.

This gave me a mind trip im still blown away and i cant wait to read more from this author. This had me on the edge of my sea the moment i got it and cant wait for everyone to read this

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks for an e-copy in exchange for an honest review.
I loved this book. This is everything I want in a mystery. The twists that helped build the story and the various spots where we got Piper’s POV was excellent writing. I loved that it kept you guessing until the very end. And this is an instance where I felt the open ending was appropriate even though I wish we could have seen the sisters make amends. But I really liked the cast of characters and how it shows that making a bad decision does not make you a bad person but there are still consequences you must face. 4.5/5

This book is definitely geared for the YA crowd. As much as I love reading YA this one couldn't keep my attention. Definitely the unreliable character fit perfectly but the way the story bounced just didn't work.

Thank you NetGalley & SOURCEBOOKS Fire for the digital ARC of Dead Girls Can’t Tell Secrets.

The story follows a young girl, Savannah, playing the amateur detectives is set to investigate her sister’s fall. She’s sure she didn’t deliberately jump of the point. But everyone has skeletons in the closets.

I really wish the characters had consistent personalities because one minute they were rivals and next minute, sleuthing together. The changing relationships were not clearly communicated. Too many unnecessary incidents took place that contributed nothing to the plot really. Just trying to misguide the reader & throw the light at someone else who wasn’t the killer. While I do understand that it is necessary to do so in a murder mystery but here, it was excessive to the extent to everyone having a motive, which sort of seemed far fetched.

Coming onto the end, I was surprise by who turned out to be the actual culprit as the author did a good job illustrating them as the most innocent one out of the group.

An overall solid 3-star read for me! 🌟

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for the opportunity to read and review this ARC!

Overall rating: 3⭐

Summary (from Goodreads): Piper Sullivan was in a strange hiking accident last month and has been in a coma ever since. Her older sister, Savannah, can’t pretend to be optimistic about it; things look bad. Piper will likely never wake up, and Savannah will never get any answers about what exactly happened.

But then Savannah finds a note in Piper’s locker, inviting Piper to a meeting of their school’s wilderness club…at the very place and on the very day that she fell. Which means there was a chance that Piper wasn’t alone. Someone might’ve seen something. Worse, someone might’ve done something. But who would want to hurt the perfect Piper Sullivan…and why?

To discover the truth, Savannah joins the club on their weekend-long camping trip on the same mountain where her sister fell. But she better be careful; everyone in the club is a suspect, and everyone seems to be keeping secrets about that tragic day.

And Savannah? She’s been keeping secrets, too…

❗️ Trigger warnings: Multiple mentions of suicide
There are NO spoilers in this review

⭐️ Full review: This book was definitely very fast-paced. It felt like there was something new in every chapter and at one point, I suspected pretty much every single one of the characters, because the author made it possible to make them all untrustworthy, which I appreciated because one of my favorite things about mystery novels is the challenge of trying to figure out who did it. There were so many twists and turns in this book that you wouldn’t really be able to put it down once it starts getting exciting around midway through. Every character is also heavily involved in the book, which is very impressive and a testament to the author’s skill of weaving everybody’s backstories together, because there definitely is quite a few of them.

The one thing I didn’t particularly like about this book was the ending. It’s not really who you’d expect it to be (my guess was definitely not that person) and I feel like right before the ending, it was so action-packed and adrenaline-fueled, (where the author makes you think it’s this person, no it’s this person, wait NO, this one is responsible for it all) that the reveal of who did it felt incredibly underwhelming. However, I did appreciate that we were given someone else’s POV near the end of the book, since I thought it tied the entire storyline really nicely.

Would I ever reread it? Probably not, but I did appreciate the storytelling and how it was a fairly quick read. The characters in general are also really complex, which I appreciated! They’re what you’d expect from young highschoolers who are still trying to figure the world out.

📖 WOULD RECOMMEND TO: Younger readers who are also fans of Pretty Little Liars

Expected publication is on April 5, 2022!

Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets is a quick read high school mystery. It's not unique but it is a fun read, with enough plot twists to keep you interested. I didn't know who did it till the end. For me, I would have prefered if it was a bit longer so the characters would have a chance to develop a bit more.
I would recommend Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets to readers who enjoy books like One Of Us Is Lying.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This book was an amazing and dark thriller that sucked you into the story. The plot was interesting but also easy to follow, with just the right amount of twists and turns. One of my problems with this story was how changeable the main character was in the story, sometimes seeming relatable, interesting, and multifaceted, and other times seeming cruel, shallow, and rude. The sister relationship was sad and amazingly written. My only other problem was how unlikable the other sister also seemed from everyone else's memories of her. Overall, this was a good and entertaining story. 3.7/5 stars from me.

Piper fell from a cliff in a freaky hiking accident and is now in a hospital bed. In a coma. With little to no chances of waking up. The town believes she jumped, but her older sister Savannah doesn't believe it was an accident.

Searching for clues about the 'accident' she stumbles unto a threat made to Piper. Determined to get to the truth she joins the outdoors club and gets close to its members, one of which could've possiby pushed Piper off that cliff. As she's looking for the truth secrets start to come up, and it turns out no one is as innocent as they seem... including Savannah herself.

Let me preface this by saying I'm not a thriller kind of girl... usually. But this was my perfect dosis of thriller and contemporary. It's a tale of two sisters, it's a tale of acceptance, and it's a pretty damn good mystery as well.

Our main characther Savannah is both your typical prom queen and that one character we can all relate too, how? don't ask me because i honestly don't understand it. She's fully fleshed, with shades of gray and colors. I truly enjoyed being in her mind.

The plot is simple in base, easy to follow, the twists and turns however were anything but simple. I was on the edge ofmy seat and couldn't put the book down. And here comes the best part: I didn't guess the ending. This happens to me more times than I'd like, I get to the half way mark and I know who did it, but this time it caught me by surprise in such way I couldn't even believe it. I loved it so much.

TW: Suicide, depression, mention of knifes.

Savannahs sister is in a coma after she fell or jumped from a popular suicide spot in their town. And savannah wants to find out what really happened after she finds a mysterious note in her sisters locker.

Savannah is very unlikable. She is not a good student, she’s mean (giving everybody mocking nicknames), too much focused on how she looks (who wears lipstick to soccer practice?), not above cheating with a guy who’s in a relationship (it is stealing if he hasn’t broken up before kissing you), jealous of her little sister and just thinks she’s so much better than everybody else.
The reader is supposed to feel for Savannah because her parents favour Piper but with all the shit she does, I couldn’t feel for her. Yes, her parents are shitty but why didn’t Sav just get a job if she needs money so bad? It works in other stories.

Piper isn’t likeable either. She has to be involved in everything, even it it wasn’t her idea in the first place, doesn’t do anything to help savannah with her parents relationship (she could’ve given her the money for the tournament just once) and enjoys being the golden child.

But nevertheless the last third hat me on the back of my seat. I suspected one character after the other but was kind of wrong every time. The conclusion wasn’t something I thought of.

An entertaining book.

3.5/5 stars

A huge thank you to the author and publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!

Piper Sullivan is in a coma. Some people think she did it to herself, but Savannah Sullivan finds clues that show that someone may have purposely injured her sister. Now she’s on a mission to discover who it was and why they did it…

This book hooked me right from the start, which I really liked. However, some of it felt rushed/unrealistic, because Savannah would find out one small clue and was immediately like, “Oh. ______ did it, and I’m going to prove it” with each chapter/incident that happened. It became tiring after a while and by the end, I had whiplash from how quickly Savannah kept changing her mind about the suspect.

The ending also seemed rushed to me, but overall, it was a decent read. This was my first book from Chelsea Ichaso, but I’m looking forward to picking up some of her other books!

This is my favorite style of book!

Our main character Savannah doesn’t have a perfect relationship with her sister Piper, her parents or even a great one with her sisters two best friends,

Trying to figure out what really happened proves difficult especially when she’s not sure who to turn to, but Savannah is determined to become the sister she wishes she always was for Piper.

I was hooked from the start, so many twists and turns. We don’t know who we can trust or if we can even trust anyone.

I tore through this book wanting to find out the truth and the storyline kept the pace up so you don’t want to stop reading.

I literally was guessing until the very last chapter.

Yup, really enjoyed this book, not a dull moment.

Thanks so much to the author Chelsea Ichaso as well as the publisher Sourcebooks Fire for an advanced reading!

Good. Good. GOOD! If you didn’t get it from the first part, I really enjoyed this book! It wasn’t my total favorite but it was definitely a super enjoyable book!