Julie Chan Is Dead

Thank you to Liann Zhang, Atria Books, and NetGalley for the e-book ARC.

3.5 ⭐️

Julie Chan Is Dead is a thriller meets weird-girl novel in which Zhang clearly had a lot of fun pushing the girl-takes-twin's-place narrative to its limits.

Humorous social media satire hooks you from the beginning of this story and continues throughout. And, although the story's setup in middle section lulls a bit, things start to get really weird (in a great way) making the novel is absolutely unputdownable from the 3/4 mark to an ending with a payoff that is totally worth it.