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A review by ariannaisbooked
Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko
challenging
emotional
hopeful
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? It's complicated
5.0
WOW, this is such an emotional ride!
This is a coming of age story about Coley, a seventeen year old who just tragically lost her mother & had to go live with her father who she hasn't seen or heard from in over a decade. She befriends Sonya & they get close very quickly. Everyone who's loved Coley has left & Sonya's never been with a girl before. They must navigate all these big experiences and emotions as they prepare for their senior year of high school.
Girls Like Girls is based on Hayley Kiyoko's song & music video of the same name. I absolutely lost my mind when I saw it was becoming a book! The song & music video came out the same summer I came out as bisexual so it's always had a special place in my heart 🤍 I honestly had no idea what the book would be about but absolutely loved it! My experience with realizing my sexuality and coming out couldn't have been more different than Coley & Sonya's experiences but so many young people go through the things that these two go through. And that makes books like this one SO important.
I am so happy for the teenagers that get to read books like this while they're on their own journey of self-discovery!
Content warning:
- loss of a parent
- suicide (happened prior to events of the book but mentioned often)
This is a coming of age story about Coley, a seventeen year old who just tragically lost her mother & had to go live with her father who she hasn't seen or heard from in over a decade. She befriends Sonya & they get close very quickly. Everyone who's loved Coley has left & Sonya's never been with a girl before. They must navigate all these big experiences and emotions as they prepare for their senior year of high school.
Girls Like Girls is based on Hayley Kiyoko's song & music video of the same name. I absolutely lost my mind when I saw it was becoming a book! The song & music video came out the same summer I came out as bisexual so it's always had a special place in my heart 🤍 I honestly had no idea what the book would be about but absolutely loved it! My experience with realizing my sexuality and coming out couldn't have been more different than Coley & Sonya's experiences but so many young people go through the things that these two go through. And that makes books like this one SO important.
I am so happy for the teenagers that get to read books like this while they're on their own journey of self-discovery!
Content warning:
- loss of a parent
- suicide (happened prior to events of the book but mentioned often)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent
The main character loses her mother to suicide before the events of the book. There are several mentions of what happened & how the main character was the one to find her mother. The grief process is re-visited throughout the book in relation to losing her mother.