Dead Is The New Black

Author: Marlene Perez
Age Recommendation: 11 and Up
Star Rating: 5/5 

Plot: Daisy Giordano has always felt like the odd one out. In a town 'chock-full of the unknown, the unusual, the unexpected' and in a family of gifted psychics, Daisy is normal. No telepathy, no telekinesis, no special powers or secret identities -- just unruly hair and a talent for cookery. When her mother asks her older sister Rose for help with a case it's the final straw for Daisy. She's going to prove that she can help solve crimes too, powers or no.

Only with cheerleaders dropping like flies and the "Divine" Devereaux, head cheerleader and Daisy's arch-enemy, reinventing herself as a gothic fashion-plate over the summer, that might not be as easy as Daisy hoped. Luckily she has some skills that even she doesn't know she possesses and she can always depend on Ryan, son of the local police chief and maybe more than a friend to Daisy, to help her investigate.


Review: Ever since I was younger I never enjoyed reading. I could never understand how someone could be so hooked on one book that they couldn't put it down; until I had done it myself. In the beginning of the year I started reading this novel. A few of my friends were telling me about this book and saying all this fantastic stuff about it. I decided to start reading it because, truthfully, it looked kinda small and I thought I might as well try it. By the first page I was already hooked. I just couldn't put that book down! It had so many exciting things happening in it that you never were bored. "Dead Is The New Black" by Marlene Perez is a must read! There is a ton of "cliff" hangers that'll make you feel the urge to never stop! This is the first book of the series. There is four more; "Dead Is A State Of Mind" "Dead Is So Last Year" "Dead Is Just A Rumor"  and the fourth one is still being written, "Dead Is Not An Option." These books really catch your eye, but be careful once you start this book you won't be able to put it down!

--Brittany