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A review by finalgirlkate
All Girls by Emily Layden
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.25
This book is marked as a thriller on GoodReads, and the synopsis sounds like it’s a literary fiction about a school handling a sexual assault allegation. Neither of those are true.
This is more like a series of vignettes, following girls at an all-girls boarding school. But there isn’t anything tying the stories together. The rape os barely mentioned, and has no impact on any of the stories.
You spend so little time with each character, it’s difficult to get invested with any of the individual girls, and even harder to tell them apart.
This is more like a series of vignettes, following girls at an all-girls boarding school. But there isn’t anything tying the stories together. The rape os barely mentioned, and has no impact on any of the stories.
You spend so little time with each character, it’s difficult to get invested with any of the individual girls, and even harder to tell them apart.