Girl Gone Mad - Avery Bishop

Thriller

Rating: 8.5/10

I was lured to this author’s works after I listened to a novella on audio and was impressed with her deft use of smoke and mirrors trickery.  More treat than trick, she sends the reader off in multiple directions, mostly misdirection’s.

Emily is a psychologist trying to redeem herself for the wrongs committed in her youth, when she was a member of a clique that called themselves the Harpies.  Harpies being beasts of mythology, which really should tell you plenty about where this story is going.

Sometime in middle school one of the members attempted suicide and the club disbanded.  Decades later they start turning up dead and through flashbacks the reader begins to learn how truly foul these girls were. Well, some of them anyway.

I was not disappointed that the authors talent at unfurling truths carried over into her novel.

Books like this make me feel better about consciously being a loner in school.  The thought of being in thrall to peer pressure that turns you into a mean girl with sociopathic tendencies held zero appeal.

Book Pairing(s): An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekanen, Lock Every Door by Riley Sager, Swallows by Lisa Lutz