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Liann Zhang Julie Chan is Dead a Novel. Book cover image of 17 blonde white women with pink phones, eyes closed. In the third row in the middle, an Asian women holds up her white phone as if taking a photo and her eyes and eyebrows show through the phone.

Julie Chan is Dead

JULIE CHAN IS DEAD rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐. The grass is always greener on the richer side–or so retail worker Julie Chan supposes in the psychological thriller JULIE CHAN IS DEAD by Liann Zhang (Simon & Schuster, April 29, 2025). Identical twins Julie and Chloe were orphaned and adopted by different families and separated at […]

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Text reads: Jessica Ward The St. Ambrose School for Girls A Novel." Bright pink image of a large mansion with turrets and two wings surrounded by black branches as if in a forest. Cover blurb: "'Completely original, quietly chilling. Mean Girls Meets We Were Liars.'–Lisa Gardner"

Girls, Cohabiting

THE ST. AMBROSE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS rating: 3 stars ⭐⭐⭐. (To be released by Gallery/Simon & Schuster, July 11, 2023). This could have been any one of three great, or at any rate very good, novels: 1. a psychological thriller, which gets progressively creepier and creepier, which is how the publisher is pitching it right

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