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Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan

14 reviews

marblemars's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I read this book super fast, and I feel like I've grown attached to the characters. Morgan, a track athlete who is very openly lesbian, struggles with leaving her homophobic, Catholic school and decides she wants to help people who are in a similar situation to her. Ruby, who competes in pageants, knows that she doesn't want to do that because its her mom's dream, she wants to fix up cars. She doesn't have a good relationship with her mom because she was a teen when she had Ruby, and she also struggles a lot financially. Ruby is trying to figure herself out while trying to maintain that strong, happy person that she was taught from pageant training. I was scared that I wouldn't like it, but I love it soooooo much.

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gbrds762's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

nice, morgan was just really annoying

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letters_from_gabriella's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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obscurepages's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

OMG OKAY. I have varying reactions to this. My reading journey went like: 😃🥲🫣🫠🤡🙅‍♀️🤔🙂

What I liked: The individual MCs, finding community and other queer people, plus lots of nuanced discussions and themes such as activism (big and small actions that counts), internalized homophobia, coming out and being safe, hiding/being the closet again, messy mom/daughter relationship with mom's dreams projecting on her daughter

What I didn't like that much: The romance, MCs keep saying messy things towards one another (and I had to remind myself that they're teens 😆)

I loved Ruby and Morgan as individual characters. But together? Not really. Mainly I feel like the chemistry lacked? It's not that convincing for me as a reader so I didn't feel invested in their relationship. I guess what really hooked me in this is just those nuanced topics, and how the characters navigated those discussions, and how they matured because of those. That I really liked.

Stills glad to have read this for Pride Month tho!

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shelvesofivy's review

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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a_win_in_clear_rain's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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rory_o_rama's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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drtx_bwt's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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marleywrites's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I love Ruby and Morgan. Their dynamic is great and I loved diving into Ruby’s character a lot. I related to her in so many ways and it was refreshing to see. This book was super cute but also tackled some hard issues like homophobia. This would have been a great read for me when I was in high school.

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bagel_z's review against another edition

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funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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