A review by bronsonmh
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

 
This book was just wow. I really enjoyed reading it. It was very raw and powerful. I thought it was a great character based book. Amanda was such a strong character with a great voice. Granted this is the first book that I have read in which the main character was trans so I did not know so much about what they really go through. This book was a start of a great education for me. I would love to learn more about them and try to understand them to the best of my abilities. I listened to it as an audio book and thought it was a great choice. Also I highly recommend people to read or listen to the authors note. She talks about how this is her telling a story and things might not happen so easy in real life, but it really is a great positive way for people to think. I also liked the idea of flash back chapters to when Amanda was Andrew and her journey to become who she really wanted to be. The only issue I have with the book is some of the writing style and a little bit with the plot. For awhile I was trying to figure out what the main plot story was, but since this was character based I understand. And sometimes I did not like how the chapters jumped sometimes like from one scene to the next so fast you have no idea how you got there. Other than that I think it is a great read and a great debut novel. Hope to read more from her soon. 
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