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A review by stuck_in_a_leabhar
Girl A by Abigail Dean
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
📖⭐️ BOOK REVIEW ⭐️📖
Book: Girl A
Author: Abigail Dean
Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
Trigger Warnings: Child Abuse, Child Death, Physical, Emotional and Domestic Abuse, Confinement, Torture
After reading Girl A I found it hard to rate it! I was leaning more towards the four stars mark at first because the book definitely had me wanting to keep turning pages but the more thought I put into it, the more I leaned towards 3.5 stars. I wanted a lot more and thought we were left with too many loose ends that weren’t tied up at the end.
This is a difficult story about a terrible family tragedy but to me it was too jumpy and too randomly depicted that I found myself losing that pace and interest that I had developed in the beginning. The story is told from the perspective of Girl A, Alexandra Gracie, and follows the now grown-up Gracie siblings as they try to get through adulthood after a childhood filled with absolute horror and abuse.
The book definitely had a lot of potential as I thought the story was extremely interesting but unfortunately it fell short as I thought it was just too jumpy and the chapters were way too long which didn’t help keeping you sucked in!
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse