Oh jeeze, I stayed up way too late last night to finish reading this because I couldn't put it down. Also, the back cover announced that fans of Mean Girls would love this, which makes me wonder if that person actually read this? Or actually saw Mean Girls? Because Mean Girls is a satire, and this is an intense psychological thriller. They are both about mean girls, so... there's that, I guess.

I want to say the bullying in this is over the top, but given what we see about teen suicides and cyberbullying etc, it must not be, at least not for some teens in some schools.

It's painful to read but, for me, unputdownable. (Partly I had to keep reading because I had a very real sense that at any moment the bullying was going to escalate into straight-up murder.)

Spoiler

It didn't. But it could have.

This is a readalike for books like [b:Before I Fall|6482837|Before I Fall|Lauren Oliver|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1361044695s/6482837.jpg|6674135], [b:Lessons from a Dead Girl|451220|Lessons from a Dead Girl|Jo Knowles|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320474341s/451220.jpg|439849] and [b:Speak|439288|Speak|Laurie Halse Anderson|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1310121762s/439288.jpg|118521]. NOT for the movie Mean Girls.