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A review by tiasreading
Flawless Girls by Anna-Marie McLemore
3.0
The cover of Flawless Girls is simply FLAWLESS - Here, I have no notes. Immediately at first glance you’re drawn in - and after reading the book, I find it to be just another cherry on top with its irony of outside VS inside.
First, I loved the intersex representation in our main character and the author’s note at the end. You can tell how much care was put into that aspect of the book and that earned another star from me. Unfortunately, the rest of the book fell flat for me but I will definitely be looking at this author’s other works.
I guess I thought this was be more of a traditional mystery, but it seemed to lean more towards literary fiction with a foreboding mystical element - there were a plethora of metaphors and similes about gems or diamonds or other shiny things that just got old after a while. I also didn’t like how I had to sit through the entire book of metaphors for the author to flat out plainly explain the entire point of the metaphors at the end. Like..? But the chapters were short so I feel like I could get through the book really fast, and I was interested in the dynamic between the two sisters and the dynamic between Isla and a few girls she met at Alaric House. I feel like there was a lot going on in this book but it got lost in the delivery.
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillans for the e-arc in exchange for my hones opinion!
First, I loved the intersex representation in our main character and the author’s note at the end. You can tell how much care was put into that aspect of the book and that earned another star from me. Unfortunately, the rest of the book fell flat for me but I will definitely be looking at this author’s other works.
I guess I thought this was be more of a traditional mystery, but it seemed to lean more towards literary fiction with a foreboding mystical element - there were a plethora of metaphors and similes about gems or diamonds or other shiny things that just got old after a while. I also didn’t like how I had to sit through the entire book of metaphors for the author to flat out plainly explain the entire point of the metaphors at the end. Like..? But the chapters were short so I feel like I could get through the book really fast, and I was interested in the dynamic between the two sisters and the dynamic between Isla and a few girls she met at Alaric House. I feel like there was a lot going on in this book but it got lost in the delivery.
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillans for the e-arc in exchange for my hones opinion!