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emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
“Practically everyone thinks they're smarter than a teenage girl. It's what makes being one so powerful, if you know how to use that giant mistake of an assumption”
Rebecca, Samantha, Haley, Katie, Ashley. After being her con artist mothers protege, Nora is on a journey to find her identity after being moulded into so many girls. However, when she finds herself, her girlfriend and her ex-boyfriend in the middle of a bank heist, she might just have to use all the girls she’s been before so help save her and her friends.
I was hooked on this book almost immediately. I loved how the book utilised past flashbacks of the girls Nora had been in order to show how they had shaped her and her actions in the bank heist. I found Nora to be such an emotionally complex and multi-faceted character alongside her girlfriend, Iris, and ex-boyfriend, Wes - which is sometimes ignored in the case of side characters. I was excited to read about a badass bisexual female protagonist but was even more excited to see a character with endometriosis.
I do think the present day heist itself was a little too fast paced compared to the slower, deeply explored flashbacks, which sometimes resulted in a lack of angst or intensity. However, this book got me out of a reading slump so I didn’t mind the pace as much as I usually would.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
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Content Warnings
Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Gun violence, and Infertility
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