"Any one of us could be made to look a monster, with selective readings of our history" 
 Wow. Wow, wow, wow. That was intense. 
 Don't you just love it when you pick up a book for some light reading and next thing you know, it's almost midnight and you didn't get anything done all day? Dangerous Girls had me hooked from page one and kept me interested all the way to the end. 
 Dangerous Girls is basically about a murder trial. 
 Anna Chevalier and Elise Warren are best friends, having the time of their life in Aruba with a group of friends. When Elise Warren was found brutally murdered, the local police were quick to place the blame on the group of foreign Americans. One by one, the friends were all crossed off the suspect list until only one name remained - Anna Chevalier. With the chief prosecutor digging into Anna's past and friendship with Elise, we explore the good, bad, dark and ugly sides of teenage relationships. 
 If you liked Gone Girl, then I think you might enjoy this YA mystery. In most murder cases, the primary suspect is almost always the person with the closest relationship to the victim. In Gone Girl, Nick Dunne was the main suspect to the disappearance and possible murder of his wife, Amy. In Dangerous Girls, Anna Chevalier was accused of having murdered her best friend, Elise Warren. 
 I probably shouldn't compare Dangerous Girls to Gone Girl since they're both pretty different and caters to different audiences. But they're both brilliantly crafted page-turners. In both books, there were a lot of circumstantial evidence that placed the protagonists in very awkward positions. In both books, the media played a large role in twisting all the facts and convincing the public that the suspects were monsters. 
 Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? 
 I just loved how Abigail Haas only feeds you a bit of information at a time, making you crave for more at the end of each chapter. I think it might have something to do with the sequencing of the chapters. The book starts with a 911 transcript, then jumps to the time before the murder, then jumps to the trial, jumps back to a flashback, jumps to a TV show transcript, then back to the trial, and so forth, and somehow it all ties together and the story just flows and remains easy to follow.