thank you to netgalley for providing me with an arc!

the premise of this book is really exciting: after her younger sister, piper, falls off a cliff during a hiking accident, and has been in a coma since, savannah is determined to find out what really happened to piper. savannah follows a note that she found in piper's locker to the survival club that piper was involved in and starts unraveling more secrets.

unfortunately, i think that this book fell short on its actual execution and pacing. i feel like there was a lot of buildup to each individual "reveal" but the actual reveal would be anticlimactic. without spoiling i didn't really like the final reveal-- at the end of the day, it just felt like a lot of buildup to nothing that exciting. savannah was either overly trusting or overly skeptical of everyone which made it annoying to read from her pov. i wish we had more of piper's chapters because i really did enjoy those especially because they added to the mystery element.

overall, i would say this book is okay in terms of the plot idea but could do a lot better in terms of execution.

Unfortunately, this one just didn't do it for me. The premise was very interesting but I didn't like the execution. Everyone was very one dimensional and there was nothing appealing about them. The most interesting character was Piper, who was in a coma, and we didn't even get to read much from her perspective - most of the information was delivered through other people's opinion or relationship with her. I also found the characters to be hypocrites, specially Savannah, and couldn't care less about their conflict because how can you judge other people when you did/are doing the exact same thing to them?

Although we were handed different suspects every chapter, I felt that Savannah didn't know how to handle the investigation; how do you expect to find out what happened to your sister without other people knowing if you end up telling everyone what you're doing as soon as you have the chance?

I wish I had liked this one more, but if you're into a YA easy read, this one's for you.

Piper's the Perfect Daughter, Savannah is not.
Piper went up the hill and didn't come back.
Prognosis says she may not come out.
One note, some betrayal and a lot of regret all on a mountain.
Savannah's on a search for the truth and to get it she has to get in survivor mode or she might end up like Piper.




If you're into Thrillers this is the book for you! I went into this book on high alert, I was blaming everyone even Savannah. We meet two sisters from Savannah’s Perspective and we got some bits from Piper’s. When we meet Savannah we meet the black sheep, the mean girl in her grief process. We follow S as she looks for clues on what really happened to her sister. Was she pushed or did she jump?

I enjoyed the way Chelsea wrote moments between S and P, and I could read the sibling rivalry in between the lines of the sisters and their love for one another. Piper is described as the perfect good girl but we all know, you can’t judge a book by its cover. Right off the bat we get animosity from multiple people that cared or knew of P. Apparently S isn’t the only one keeping secrets,So of course they get put on our SUS list! First things first, infiltrate second:question ,third get hit by a bomb of all betrayals. S finds out tons of secrets that might put her in P’s situation but she doesn’t care. She wants to know the truth maybe this will soothe the blame she feels.


I was interested in knowing how this would end because throughout the book I was at the edge of my seat with many hunches and I definitely was worried about this ending in knowing that she was to blame. TO be honest I loved the ending we find out the truth and we realize that the only justice we get is peace of mind. It gave it the reality that some books miss. Chelsea did a great job by showing us the difference of forgiveness v. forgetting. The action scenes were great as were the transitions. I’m not one for romance but we did get some cute moments. Overall this was a good thriller.

Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets is a YA thriller by Chelsea Ichaso. Savannah Sullivan's sister got injured in a strange hiking incident, which everyone believes was a suicide attempt, and she has been in a coma for the last one month. But Savannah refuses to believe it and is determined to find the truth. She finds several clues and suspects which lead to her joining the wilderness club to investigate. She ends up going on a weekend camp with club members who are suspects and that is where a significant part of the action happens.
It is a fast paced thriller with grey characters which turned out to be quite an average book for me. The fact that it's a short book and things happen quickly worked in it's favour. There is single minded focus on finding out what happened to Piper. But there is nothing new for someone who has read a number of thrillers. The ending didn't work for me.
If you are a beginner when it comes to thrillers, love books set in wilderness or ones that involve camping, then you can try this one.

3/5 stars
I don't have a lot to say about this book. It didn't really catch my attention and I found it for the most part pretty boring. I didn't like the protagonist Savannah and unfortunately that stopped me from enjoying the rest of the book. Her choices while investigating annoyed me since she seemed to only make dumb decisions. In addition to that she didn't try to figure out the accident because she cared about her sister but only because she didn't want to be the one at fault. I was expecting more from the book based on the description but sadly this book was nothing special.

The mystery wasn't something extraordinary but it was an enjoyable and fun read. I loved stories that revolve heavily on sisters/family relationship but the characters weren't that likeable for me and I wasn't attached to any, but it was something hard for me to do in a mystery book anyway.

I read this book in just one sitting - I loved the fact that I didn't know who I should believe. Overall, a good mystery, just note that there is mention of suicide.

The book had a lot of suspense waiting to see what happened. Beautifully written mystery. Kept me on the edge of my seat. A quick impactful read. It follows two sisters Piper and Savannah and they are completely opposites. Piper has been in a coma and Savannah doesn’t think it’s an accident. Savannah goes searching for answers and finds a note in Pipers locker.

I flew through this book! I couldn't figure out who to trust and who I should believe is guilty. Everyone seemed like the guilty party at one point.

Dead girls can’t tell secrets

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with the arc in exchange for a review!

Piper is the golden child of her parents and Savannah has always been the neglected one. Savannah wanted her parents’ attention but it can’t be possible in presence of Piper. One day Piper had an accident and as a result, is in a coma. Savannah used to have wild fantasies about life without Piper but not like that. She doesn’t believe that her sister can commit suicide so she is on the mission of finding the real reason.

It’s your typical whodunit with a few more twists. I liked the book overall. I had a couple of questions I did not get answered but it was a fitting end. You really find yourself questioning what’s the next secret and what is coming next.

I gave it 3.5 stars

Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets is about Savannah who was determined to find out whether her sister committed suicide or somebody wanted to kill her, the reason why she joined the club where her sister was a member. The club went on camping, giving Savannah more opportunities to investigate. She thought she got the answers to her questions but she was wrong. She only unraveled the secrets of the people whom she thought responsible for her sister's tragedy. Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets is a good, light read that is bound to please anyone who likes light mystery/thriller stories. My curiosity was kindled in the beginning and made me excited to turn the pages to find out what really happened. I think this book is right for its targeted audience. Thank you Chelsea Ichaso, Sourcebooks Fire, and NetGalley for the ARC. I created this review voluntarily.

What a twisty book! There were lots of characters (that weren't too hard to follow) each with many clues! I loved that we didn't really know who to trust!

This is definitely a great read for fans of Karen M McManus or Holly Jackson!

This book had all the moving pieces of an enjoyable YA thriller, and yet, something about it wasn't all that enjoyable. I'm someone who deeply enjoys fast pacing, my attention span being relatively useless otherwise. However, in this particular book, the pacing hurt it more than helped it. You didn't have time to feel or care about any of the suspense. Because all of this happens in less than 48 hours, each clue hits fast, and the contradictions get easier and easier to spot. This means your first hunch of whodunit is probably the right hunch. An easily sovable thriller isn't something I can rate highly, and I wish I had enjoyed this more. Unfortunately, there was also issues in the dialogue that made the story genuinely feel like an adult writing teenagers. You know that feeling, where you aren't quite sure if the adult has spoken to a teenager recently? That's how a lot of the dialogue started to feel for me.

2.5 stars, rounded up. It's a bit of a snack book, the pacing making it easy to get through, but the entire plot left me unsatisfied.

Meh!

This book should have been better.

I love these type of stories, YA finding themselves in a dire situation, reminds me, in some ways, to the teen slasher movies - minus the gross.

The pace was a problem for me. It was way too slow and by the time the plot picks up, I had lost interest

I wanted so much more from this book.

Unfortunately this was a DNF for me.

I'm not opposed to superficial YA mysteries, but this one had too many similarities to other (and better) teen thrillers from the past few years. I tried to hang on, but the bland writing, unlikeable narrator, and convenient plotting was too much to look past. One of those YA books that I think will unfortunately not resonate with older readers.

I normally like a ‘who done it’ type book, but I felt like this one drug on. I didn’t love the ending.

2/5⭐

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with the arc in exchange for a review!

The premise and vibes for this novel were quite promising, however, the execution was mediocre... It was just like every other YA murder mystery novel I've read. It was fast-paced and kept me entertained till the end, although it was generally a little underwhelming. At one point, I didn't even care who was to blame for the accident.

I don't completely remember everything that happened but-
TW: su!cide attempt? and I do mention it in the review.

Plot:
The story is about two sisters, Piper and Savannah. They are completely different in every aspect. Piper is really smart and cares about her education a lot (would be considered the "teacher's pet") while Sav is athletic and doesn't really care about school, she just wants to get a soccer scholarship. The book starts with Piper in a coma after she presumably jumped off a cliff, so Sav is trying to find out if her sister tried to commit suicide or if someone pushed her off. Her clues lead to her sister's survival club, so she joins and goes on a camping trip to study everyone and figure out who it may have been.

It was kind of very predictable, even if the suspects changed every chapter, I always kind of knew who it was because it's always the same with these kinds of books. I thought the turns and twists were entertaining, but I expected something more. It was a little basic.
Also, if you think of a camping trip, you expect completely different vibes than what this gave. I don't know how to explain it, but it didn't give me the mystery, dangerous, adventurous, dark vibes that camping trips usually give (even more in mystery books).

Characters:
- Savanah: I really despised her character, she came off as annoying and obnoxious. Savanah's main reason for investigating the accident wasn't the fact that her sister was in a coma and she was worried about her, it was because she might have been the one to push her sister into committing suicide. It was because she felt guilty for the way in which she treated her sister, she didn't want her parents to find out that she was the reason why they might lose their "favorite" daughter. And the way she handled the whole investigation was so stupid like she might as well have gone around asking people if they tried to kill her. And she would literally reveal information she had discovered to random people! even some that she didn't trust. I have to admit that the last plan at the hospital was really smart, but apart from that she definitely shouldn't be an investigator.

The rest of the characters were pretty one-dimensional and the fact that my favorite character was the one in the coma should tell you some things about the rest of the cast. Piper deserves way better.

If you enjoy basic YA mystery, that's easy to read without having to think much, definitely recommend this one! It was entertaining at least :)

This is a thriller in the wilderness. Piper was in a strange hiking accident and has been in a coma for a month. Her older sister Savannah is afraid that Piper may never wake up. She is determined to find out the truth about what happened. To investigate, she joins the wilderness club on their weekend camping trip. She finds some clues that she is following up on. She has to be careful because everyone in the club is a suspect. This story keeps you guessing as to who knows the truth about what happened to Piper. I recommend this book.

When Savannah's younger sister Piper goes into a coma following a traumatic fall, Savannah does not believe her sister was trying to kill herself. With a great deal of guilt surrounding the sisters last interaction, Savannah is determined to find out who caused Piper's fall. The list of suspects changes and grows as Savannah discovers Piper had some secrets of her own.

Overall I enjoyed this book and the different twists the author implemented to keep the reader guessing.

I was given this book via Netgalley for my honest review and man did she move quick! This was a fun little read that I literally read in three hours one morning. It was a fun, heartwarming mystery. I say heartwarming because it has a really great ending, one filled with hope. I just got done reading a really dark, mystery series so this was the breath of fresh air I needed. Still intriguing enough to keep me reading but not dark enough that I need to take mental breaks from it.

I thought about 65% of my way through the book that I had it figured out, but it really does keep you guessing until the very end.

Now some negatives. I didn’t really love the character development as there really wasn’t any and I didn’t really get a grasp on the characters personalities. The descriptions of the characters were vague and not very strong or compelling. Even though I liked the fast pace of the book, I think in this case, it hurt the overall world and character building. It really does thrust you right into the plot without much build up and world/setting building. With that being said, I really didn’t develop a relationship with any of the characters. I found their secrets intriguing, but I didn’t care about their overall wellbeing.

To end on a positive note, I really did enjoy the ride. It was a compelling mystery that kept me reading and guessing until the very end. I just think the book would have benefited for some more characters and setting content to make me care about the characters involved.