![]() ![]() The lack of an ironic tone makes the girls bitchy language seem incredibly immature and damn annoying after a while. ![]() Even Kirkus called this "Mean Girls with an occult twist." I kept seeing the Mean Girls parallels as I was reading - the two really are astonishingly alike, but this book fills up the absence of clever irony with senseless melodrama and angst. The Merciless really is just a crappy version of Mean Girls with a heavy dose of gratuitous violence and sensationalism. By the shockingly twisted end, readers will be faced with the most haunting question of all: Is there evil in all of us? ![]() In this chilling debut, Danielle Vega delivers blood-curdling suspense and terror on every page. All Sofia wants is to get out of this house. Now, Riley and the girls are performing an exorcism on Brooklyn-but their idea of an exorcism is closer to torture than salvation. Sofia didn’t realize they believed Brooklyn was possessed. ![]() When she befriended Riley, Grace, and Alexis on her first day at school, she admired them, with their perfect hair and their good-girl ways. Sofia Flores knows she shouldn’t have gotten involved. No one outside of these dank basement walls knows she’s here. Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. ![]()
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