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A review by heidisreads
All Girls by Emily Layden
4.0
I finished this book a week ago and I still can’t figure out how to write about what it was about without saying too much so I guess I’ll just tell you what it isn’t about.
This isn’t a plot-based thriller. Yes, there’s a mystery, but it’s more about the characters figuring out themselves than it is about figuring out who/what keeps leaking the info the admin wants hidden.
This isn’t one of those books where you read the last page and everything “feels right” - you know like the end of Mean Girls where all the girls are sitting on the lawn laughing and having a picnic? Nope. Not here.
Lastly, this isn’t a book you’ll forget quickly. The way the author has written characters in this book will have you wondering if she was on your floor in your dorm, changed clothes next to you in the locker room after practice or sat a table away from you in the dining hall - always observing.
Two lines that keep coming to the forefront of my mind even a week after reading...
“You don’t always see the lines until you’ve crossed them.”
“This is what it is to love a place... You have to want it to be better.”
This isn’t a plot-based thriller. Yes, there’s a mystery, but it’s more about the characters figuring out themselves than it is about figuring out who/what keeps leaking the info the admin wants hidden.
This isn’t one of those books where you read the last page and everything “feels right” - you know like the end of Mean Girls where all the girls are sitting on the lawn laughing and having a picnic? Nope. Not here.
Lastly, this isn’t a book you’ll forget quickly. The way the author has written characters in this book will have you wondering if she was on your floor in your dorm, changed clothes next to you in the locker room after practice or sat a table away from you in the dining hall - always observing.
Two lines that keep coming to the forefront of my mind even a week after reading...
“You don’t always see the lines until you’ve crossed them.”
“This is what it is to love a place... You have to want it to be better.”