A review by goatsrsexy
That Kind of Girl by Natalie C. Anderson

dark 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

4.25

This book was VERY good! I highly recommend it. While it's marketed as YA, and I guess the prose fits the YA market, the subject matter is a lot darker than what I'd expect for the demographic.

Roxie is a teenage girl, raised in a cult and now living with her ex-FBI uncle, she does Veronica Mars style tasks for her schoolmates.

The other character who has POV chapters is Inez, a 21 year old sex worker. While Inez was important to the story, her chapters were so few and short that I felt like we could have done without them and just had her be a character in Roxie's story.

This book is part thriller, part mystery. There's a lot going on. A treasure hunt, a murder mystery, gentrification, and a lot of dark back stories slowly coming to light. I personally was very enthralled while reading this, I finished it in two days. 

There's some very scary men and dark subject matter going on in this book, but the ending was satisfactory and the twists weren't shocking but also weren't super obvious. I definitely think this is a great book that people are gonna love!

Thanks so much to Penguin Teen Canada for the advanced copy.