This is a YA murder mystery + satire (apparently I’m on a streak with these) that was a lot of fun to read!

Kerry and Annie are high schooler outsiders and best friends that get wrapped up in solving a murder mystery. When a popular classmate turns up dead at a party, apparently having been murdered with a menstrual cup (yes, you read that right) the school's queen bee welcomes the girls into her inner circle, on the condition that they prove her innocence, since the cops aren't taking things seriously. They are, after all, middle-aged men who insist it was “probably an accident” until a second victim turns up with a pad stuck over their eyes.

There's a light bit of romance in this, which I probably was only as invested in as I was because I immediately pictured Scott, the new guy and Kerry's crush, as Cliff Pantone from "Bring it On", the superior teen movie love interest of our generation. My one pet peeve about him was that he brought up "The Shining" while in a house that had animal-shaped topiaries in the yard and did not make a joke about them. Huge missed opportunity, but no one's perfect.

The clues/leads were engaging and came together in a satisfying way, I did not guess the killer or the way the mystery came together, so that was fun. I didn't really connect with the characters, or I would have rated it higher, and some of the satire was a little heavy-handed, but overall it was a fun read that kept me guessing (and laughing), and I'd recommend as a palette-cleanser between heavier books.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publishers, & the author for the advance copy in exchange for my honest review.