Dead Girls

I'd love to read the book this was advertised as. While Bolin's stories about her life—dotted occasionally with stray observations about media, race, and gender—were just interesting enough to keep me reading, the actual meat of this book could really only fill a long essay.

Part 1: The Dead Girl Show almost lives up to the hype. The first 50 pages would have gotten 4 stars from me. Parts 2 and 3 stray away from what was advertised and become a memoir of Bolin's life in LA and her adolescence, which would have merited 3 stars. Part 4: A Sentimental Education was unfortunately difficult to get through, and ending on that disappointment soured the rest of the book for me. Hence 2 stars.