The Falling Girls by Hayley Krischer

 

Publisher: Razorbill.

Publication date: October 5th 2021

Pages: 320

Shade and Jadis have been best friends since like  forever. Jadis is one of the high school's cheerleaders, who furthermore exist of three other main characters in this book, the three Chloe's, who are more or less the queen bees of the cheerleading squad. Shade joins the squad, and she loves it. She loves the hard work and determination it takes, and it changes her as a person. But everything changes when at a prom one of the three Chloe's dies under mysterious circumstances, and everyone is witness to it when she falls on the floor. Was she just unwell because of a natural cause, or was it something else? Shade discovers that she and the other Chloe's used something before the party, and that someone might have some reasons for taking Chloe Orbach down, but who? Shade is determined to get to the bottom of her death..

At first I found this story taking off slowly. Beside all the cheerleading stuff that is known from many other books and movies, nothing really happened that keeps you entertained as a reader. It took to the middle of the book for a turning point in the action, when one of the three Chloe's died all of a sudden, which was quite unexpected. You would expect a thrilling detective, sleuthing kind of story from then on, as Shade wanted to find out who was behind it, but somehow it didn't felt that way, as it truly lacked an entertaining tension bow that made it more interesting to read. It all cobbled on with cheerleading stuff and just random things untill at some point Shade found out who was behind it in a strange way, and shortly after, the story ended.  Overall, I found this story not very interesting or entertaining. It just doesn't have something that makes it stand out.