Dead Beautiful Characters

The Characters in Dead Beautiful are very 3-dimensional and original with each their own mysterious past. Renee, the main character, starts out as a sunny California girl with two ordinary teacher parents, an ordinary boyfriend, and an ordinary best friend. Is that foreshadowing kids? Why yes it is. Oh look, an excerpt from the sypnosis on Goodreads;

"On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Renée Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school. No one she'd ever known had died. But all that changes when she finds her parents dead in the Redwood Forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder." (Goodreads) 

So basically, the gist is she's just a normal teenage girl. But wait, there's more. After the funeral, her grandfather sends her to a boarding school where the story really begins [because no, the death of her parents did not have much involvement other than being the reason she was sent there- and maybe a few other spoilers I am not willing to deal out as well]. 

The reason I love Renee however, is not because she is quote unquote 'normal' in the beginning. It's because of the depth to her character with her special talent of finding dead things [and the fact that she also found her dead parents, and that they're dead. Yeah that plays in as well], of her snarky and sarcastic sense of humor that we hear throughout her narration, and how she's actually a pretty good sleuth when it came to solving the mysterious deaths and reappearances around campus. Coming to the school ended up helping her discover some things about herself that she never knew before. When she was back in Cali, she was just another girl and now she's much much more. 

Another amazing character was her love interest, Dante. He was a very interesting character and hard to grasp at times because he was so mysterious and elusive, along with being handsome and smart and all of those wonderful things. One thing I noticed as the book went on was how vulnerable he really was, and that's why he was so gaurded [well, and the fact that he was...that his secret was...you know just read it]. 

Along with all of this, there's Eleanor and Nathaniel. I loved them since they were really wonderful friends, and how Eleanor was so sweet and caring, especially given her popularity. One would think she'd be your typical snobby rich girl but we find out she's much more than that with the pressures of following family footsteps and living kind of in her brothers shadow. The hard part was when she disappeared for ten days-and may or may not have come back undead. 

Nathaniel is an entirely different story, being kind of geeky and a little bit of a loner but so loyal and trusting/trustworthy himself. He's really there for his friends and manages to come through. 

Overall, this was a great book and I recommend it to girls. I mean if you're a guy and you want to read this, knock yourself out but girls are kind of the target readers so.