From Bad To Cursed By Katie Alender

Reading Journal #4 The book I am reading is called “From Bad To Cursed”, by Katie Alender. The genre of this book is Horror Fiction. It is the second book in the “Bad Girls Don’t Die” series In the first book, “Bad Girls Don’t Die”, Alexis’s little sister, Kasey, becomes obsessed with an antique doll. Alexis thinks it’s just another phase her sister is going through, but her life is slowly becoming something straight out of a horror movie. Water boils on a stove that isn’t on, doors are opening and closing by themselves, and Kasey’s behaviour is stranger than normal. Kasey’s eyes are appearing green instead of blue, she forgets the time in decades, and when Alexis confronts her, she says she doesn’t notice anything. Alexis starts to think that the doll might be behind these events, but she hopes that she is wrong.
In the second book “From Bad To Cursed”, Alexis and her parents move to a new house after another incident involving Kasey.
Her sister is still in Harmony Valley, where she is in a mental institution. But Kasey is back. As she is slowly recovering, she suddenly makes some new friends. Alexis should be happy, but the last time Kasey made friends this quick, was when she had the antique doll. Kasey and her friends start a club, but the members go from dorky and unsocial, to pretty and popular quick. Alexis and her best friend, Megan, join the club to investigate, and they find something evil is at
work. I don’t usually read anything scary, but when I read the first few pages, I couldn’t put the book down. My favourite thing about this book is how the author mixes the genres Horror and Adventure so well into one book. The characters go on unbelievable adventures that are scary. The second thing I like about this book is the ending. The ending takes a lot of the cryptic information given in the beginning and turns it into a temporary solution for the characters. Another thing I like about this book is how you keep getting more clues that hint so many things, but you can’t put it together. This book is very unpredictable. It’s a change because most of the book I read, I can predict exactly what will happen next. In this book, there is one thing I really didn’t like. The author makes most of the girls in this book so stereotypical. There was a part in the book where a member of the club calls Alexis into the bathroom to help her fix her hair because it was “too flat”. When she gets a curling iron, her hair burns off and her scalp turns red. She is in so much pain, and when Alexis takes the curling iron from her, she still wants it because her hair isn’t fixed. The girl with the burned scalp keeps crying, “How will my hair look now?” Most of the girls in this book have said something about their appearance not being good enough. These girls don’t even cry because it will ruin their makeup. This book portrays girls, like they only care about how they look, and what other people think of them. Not all girls care about makeup and how they look. “From Bad To Cursed” is a good book, but it isn’t the best book I have ever read. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate this book a 9. I would recommend this book to people who like books that are scary, but not too scary.
By: Angel