What do You think about A Fate Totally Worse Than Death (1997)?
Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.comFor 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.
—Jennifer Wardrip
Amber RandolHumorA Fate Totally Worse Than Death involved three girls who were the most popular in their school: Tiffany, Brooke, and Danielle. The girls had murdered a former classmate who was attracting the attention of one of their boyfriends, but no one knows about it. A new girl, Helga, from Norway, comes to the school and all of the girls boyfriends like her, so the group sets out to get her to leave. They try cutting her hair and attacking her mentally but it backfires and Helga says they will pay for it. The girls then start to age very quickly, getting gray hair, poor vision, arthritis, liver spots, weak bladders, etc. They think Helga is the ghost of the girl they killed because they believe she cursed them, and they set out to kill her too. They get caught trying to murder her in the process, but they end up needing to be hospitalized instead of put in jail because they keep aging more and more rapidly. Tiffany meets a woman who is the grandmother of the girl they murdered, and she slipped a drug into the chocolates the girls stole from her that ages the body so she could get revenge. This book had an ironic humor for the most part, but it was also funny with the aging that they experienced. It was harder to relate because the main characters were the popular girls, and because of the aging that they suffered.
—Amber
