PopSugar Reading Challenge Book 3 or Evil Comes in Pink

The next check box on the list is a book based entirely on its cover. I went into B&N to find an entirely different book and found a bright cover with and inverted pentagram. Barbie pink and a symbol of evil? Yes, please.

It's the first book of Danielle Vega, a new-ish horror writer. If this is her first full length book, I'm eager to see what she's got coming up next. 

Sofia is new in school (again) and meets local rebel Brooklyn along with the high school’s resident popular girls. Riley and her crew thing Brooklyn is in desperate need of help. What Sofia didn’t realize was that the help Riley planned on giving her was an exorcism. Now she’s trapped in a house and has to try to save Brooklyn, if she can save herself.

You expect this book to start as a typical teen book with a cute boy, popular bitchy girl, and her rebel but it quickly turns into something darker. It presents the question of whether the greatest evil we face is against ourselves. It was very well written and I burned through it very quickly because I wanted to know what happened. Vega created moments when you wondered if there was something greater going on or if Sofia’s mind was reacting to her situation. It was the perfect kind of subtle horror that builds tension.

She warns that it’s for mature audiences only and I’d agree. I’m sure the movie version will wind up rated R. I strongly suspect Vanessa Hudgens will wind up being Sofia. I can live with that as long as they don’t totally whitewash the cast. I pictured Riley as one of the Pretty Little Liars girls. I definitely want to see the film adaptation. January is almost over and I’m 3 books down. I may have to up my game in the coming months if I’m going to finish on time.