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I'm the Girl by Courtney Summers

11 reviews

nouveau's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child death, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Murder, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Incest, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

megwilli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Incest

ksamaine95's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Murder, Child death, Violence, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Adult/minor relationship

caidyn's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.25

What a spectacular book. It definitely is in the same line as Sadie, but very different. It looks at men in powerful positions and the abuses they do. I read this in one sitting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Rape

Moderate: Alcoholism

hollyk's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

I think this book's description is misleading. The mystery is a subplot and if I knew what this book was really about I likely wouldn't have read it--it's very heavy in terms of subject matter. I felt lost the whole time and honestly didn't really get the end?

TW:

SA, statutory r*pe, CP, grooming, murder, CSA. All of these are featured HEAVILY

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Grief, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Cancer, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

luv4eilish's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism

bekah1210's review

dark mysterious medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape

Moderate: Child death, Murder, Death, Alcoholism, and Trafficking

Minor: Gun violence and Drug use

theonlybaillie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Sexual content, Child death, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, Trafficking, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

The whole book is a TW honestly lol

dez_blair's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, and Murder

Minor: Kidnapping, Child death, Alcoholism, and Pedophilia

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

This book honestly creeped me out and not in a good thriller way.

Telling a girl she has the power to stop a man from raping her is just disgusting. I obviously don't know if the author explains that this female character's view is WRONG later, but that's what got me to just stop with this book

  What I read of it just left me feeling gross. 

I loved Sadie! But this book was just terrible. The MC was highly unlikeable. I think you were supposed to feel sorry for her, but honestly, I didn't really. She just seemed like an entitled poor person. who thought she deserved better because she was attractive, WTF.  As someone without a lot of money, I'd never assume, "well, if I were more attractive... I'd be rich!". Just because you're attractive does not translate into an entitlement to be rich. NO ONE has the entitlement to have money. Some people are lucky enough to be born with money or have an easy or harder path to wealth, but most people will still be around where they were born. 

I did like Nora and Tyler. But they couldn't make up for Georgia. 

Also, Georgia's entitlement overruled any thought of the "thriller" element, which was mostly ignored for Georgia's attempts at social climbing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Classism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Drug use, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Vomit