Cliffside high is the setting for A fate totally worse than death by Paul Fleischman. Humor through sarcasm, name calling, and one-liners used throughout the novel between your average group of mean girls Danielle, Tiffany, and Brooke. The trio set their sites on their next victim a beautiful foreign exchange student named Helga. They immediately become frustrated unable to prove that she is the ghost of Charity Chase, a girl they murdered, and the source of the aging curse put on them. The rich spoiled girls decide they will do whatever it takes even kill, to get rid of Helga. Many high school students going through issues of jealousy and bullying would be able to relate. This book would be highly entertaining for teenage girls; they wouldn’t want to put it down. I found it to be an overall very easy read with an unexpected twist at the end proving what goes around comes around. Grade 9 and up. ( )

Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com

For anyone who enjoyed Scary Movie with it's over-the-top humor, sarcastic wit, dry parodies, and unrestrained juvenile one-liners, A FATE TOTALLY WORSE THAN DEATH is a must read.

The plot revolves around three girls, Danielle, Brooke, and Tiffany, who are members of the Huns--the absolutely only clique to belong to at Cliffside High. The Huns believe in one rule above all else--the Hun boys belong to them, and them alone. When Helga, a Norwegian exchange student, shows up, the girls begin to feel threatened, and decide to take matters into their own hands.

They've had to take drastic action before, you see, when the boy Danielle is in love with, Drew, started dating Charity Chase, a girl who was definitely not a member of the Huns. The group of three committed an unspeakable act of horror--and now they're beginning to pay for it, in the form of Helga. Because once Helga showed up, and Danielle, Brooke, and Tiffany set about ruining her life, bad things began happening to them instead.

As the girls struggle to get through the day, unable to understand why their bodies are betraying them, they come to the conclusion that Helga isn't a girl at all--but the ghost of Charity, come back to haunt them and exact revenge.

A FATE TOTALLY WORSE THAN DEATH is definitely funny, outrageous, and a very quick read. For anyone who likes a dash of humor with their horror, this book is for you. ( )

I do not read teen slasher stories, but even I could appreciate this wonderfully done parody. It had me howling and all the girls were so bitchy it was beautiful. This is parodying at its very best! ( )

Its an OK book, kind of strange. Gave me the creeps in a weird way. ( )