A review by storytimed
About a Girl by Sarah McCarry

4.0

I could write something very eloquent about this book, but mostly I just want to devolve into shouts of BI LOVE TRIANGLE!!. About a Girl is a beautiful, surreal dream of a book, so pretty in its depiction of a rural Washington town and long bike rides near the ocean and kissing a girl who is maybe supernatural that it took me until at least four hours after I'd finished it to realize that I wasn't really satisfied with the amount of mysteries left hanging (perhaps, though, that's because I haven't read the first two books in the series). Still, everything about Tally's life is highly #aesthetic, the writing is intricate and lovely, and I really like the commitment to having a diverse cast. Tally's smart and odd without being self-congratulatory about it, Maddy is wild and rather believable both as the supernatural and as the girl, and Shane is pretty cool as the back-home swoony best friend (I also really dug that he was a trans dude).