oraclereadings 's review for:

She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick

4.0

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Awkward, anti-social, Molly Parker has no idea how to “get the girl”. After spending four years in high school with her mom as her only best friend, she is determined to make college different. Her dreams of that happening are shattered the moment she arrives at her dorm to realize that she is living in a single, not sharing with a roommate like she had hoped. She gets pressured into attending a college party, finally residing in the fact that that is the only way she is going to make friends. Plus, her crush since the eighth grade, Cora Myers, is going to be there.

Alex Blackwood can’t seem to keep the girls away. She is very flirty and outgoing, but her problem is keeping the girl. Before going off to college, Alex and Natalie (her girlfriend that’s also in a band) go through a pretty tough breakup. Natalie accuses Alex of not taking their relationship seriously. Alex wants to reassure Natalie that she can be a good girlfriend and conspires a plan to help Molly get the girl of her dreams.

Of course, somewhere along the way, both girls start developing feelings for each other and they both have to reevaluate their goals in life.

This did not feel like it took place over the course of a few weeks or a month or whatever it was. I blinked and suddenly the book was over. I probably would have loved this a lot more than I did if it weren’t for how we’re introduced to Alex’s character at the beginning. She’s written as being this flirtatious womanizer that has cheated on her girlfriend multiple times. Sure, she’s got a lot of shit going on with having to financially support her alcoholic mother and her dad dipping when she was only five. Cheating is just one of those things that I find it hard to excuse and is an automatic “No” for me based on a character.

Also, I just learned that Rachel Lippincott wrote this with her wife, Alyson Derrick, and that is the cutest thing ever.

Representation: Molly is Half-Korean and deals with the negativity of her culture from her mother (who is Korean and absolutely hates her own culture).