A review by psidereal
Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach

3.0

The way that this book handles pretty much every subject honestly felt straight out of the Buzzfeed late 2010s “not like other girls” era, so imagine my surprise when I found out this was published in 2021. Seriously, I think every single woman in this book who wore any type of makeup or did anything with her hair was ridiculed. I kept waiting for this to be addressed and it was just barely brushed over in the end. The two main girls in this book, Eliza and Winona, honestly talked more shit about women than any of the male characters did and it’s just never acknowledged by the characters or the narrative. It was really hard to like pretty much any of the characters. I feel like the fact that the protagonist refers to herself as a “girlboss” without a lick of irony really sums everything up.