Take this quiz to find out whether you're a Beth, Amy, Jo or Meg!
Someone is dead. Someone is lying. Someone is watching. And someone is definitely not telling the whole truth.
Beth Is Dead is a story about friendship, secrets, and the moment everything quietly falls apart.
So, the question is: which character are you?
Are you the calm centre of the storm, the chaos engine, the one holding it all together, or the one pretending everything’s fine when it very much isn’t?
Answer the questions below to find out who you’d be in Beth Is Dead, and what that might say about you.
(No pressure. Just emotional revelations.)
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