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A review by lookingforamandaa
Trouble Girls by Julia Lynn Rubin
3.0
Thank you NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for an honest review. Trouble Girls is pitched as a sapphic retelling of Thelma and Louise. I never saw the original film, but I definitely want to now. I have to start this review by saying that this story starts off with an attempted rape. There’s also some violence, murder, and so much degrading hate speak toward women that we see through the characters.
We follow Trixie and Lux who are on the run after Trixie stabbed a college man who was trying to rape Lux. They’re fleeing because they know what will happen if they go to the police. Lux comes right out and says that she’ll be questioned about why she was in a bar, what she was wearing, about how she was dancing with the person that tried to rape her. This book really obviously points out the flaws and issues that todays’s world has with believing the victim when someone tries to report being raped or sexually assaulted. There’s also a lot of anger. We only get Trixie’s point of view, so I can’t say how Lux was feeling, but Trixie was angry. I could absolutely understand her anger, but at times I couldn’t sympathize with it because the voices the girls made just kept making things worse and worse. I couldn’t help but think they should have just turned themselves in.
Overall, I wanted to like this book more than I did. I liked the romance between the girls. I liked their adventures while traveling, but I didn’t like many of the choices they made.
We follow Trixie and Lux who are on the run after Trixie stabbed a college man who was trying to rape Lux. They’re fleeing because they know what will happen if they go to the police. Lux comes right out and says that she’ll be questioned about why she was in a bar, what she was wearing, about how she was dancing with the person that tried to rape her. This book really obviously points out the flaws and issues that todays’s world has with believing the victim when someone tries to report being raped or sexually assaulted. There’s also a lot of anger. We only get Trixie’s point of view, so I can’t say how Lux was feeling, but Trixie was angry. I could absolutely understand her anger, but at times I couldn’t sympathize with it because the voices the girls made just kept making things worse and worse. I couldn’t help but think they should have just turned themselves in.
Overall, I wanted to like this book more than I did. I liked the romance between the girls. I liked their adventures while traveling, but I didn’t like many of the choices they made.