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A Girl Like Her
by Talia Hibbert
The cover is so bad. Talia, I'm begging you to re-release this book with a faceless cartoon couple eating food on a couch or something. Maybe an illustration of a small town main street with a couple in silhouette? A lot of books are doing abstract blobs on the cover these days, you could do that! SOMETHING beside a photograph of a couple embracing. The cover is so embarrassing. The title is also meaningless. You could literally give this title to any romance book ever written- it's so bad.
I only picked this up because I've already read like 5 books by Talia Hibbert and they very consistently include disability rep and masculinity without toxicity. If you liked any of the books from the Brown Sisters series, you would also like this book (although you wouldn't know it from the cover!!!!)
This is very deliberately a small town romance, which is not a trope I love. There's a baddie in town, Daniel, who is kind of mustache-twirl level bad and for some reason he apparently has a lot of cultural capital in town. Evan, our male main character is new in town and is kind of like "Why does everyone give such a shit about what this ONE dude thinks?" and honestly - same. We never really get a good answer.
If you don't like miscommunication tropes, you may not love this book. I typically find it inexcusable when grown adults seem so oblivious when it's clear one of them has romantic feelings, but given Ruth's autism, it adds up and can withstand that scrutiny. As always, Hibbert, to my neurotypical mind at least, does a nice job immersing the reader in the way an autistic person engages in communication and relationshps without being preachy or overt.
I needed a little brain candy and this fit the bill. It was a fun read - I finished it under two days.
I only picked this up because I've already read like 5 books by Talia Hibbert and they very consistently include disability rep and masculinity without toxicity. If you liked any of the books from the Brown Sisters series, you would also like this book (although you wouldn't know it from the cover!!!!)
This is very deliberately a small town romance, which is not a trope I love. There's a baddie in town, Daniel, who is kind of mustache-twirl level bad and for some reason he apparently has a lot of cultural capital in town. Evan, our male main character is new in town and is kind of like "Why does everyone give such a shit about what this ONE dude thinks?" and honestly - same. We never really get a good answer.
If you don't like miscommunication tropes, you may not love this book. I typically find it inexcusable when grown adults seem so oblivious when it's clear one of them has romantic feelings, but given Ruth's autism, it adds up and can withstand that scrutiny. As always, Hibbert, to my neurotypical mind at least, does a nice job immersing the reader in the way an autistic person engages in communication and relationshps without being preachy or overt.
I needed a little brain candy and this fit the bill. It was a fun read - I finished it under two days.