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A review by sydneythekydneybean
She Gets the Girl by Alyson Derrick, Rachael Lippincott
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
This was cute! Maybe more of a frienship/partner-in-crime book than a full-blown romance novel, but I still enjoyed my time with it. I liked Molly and Alex as characters, and I think the authors did a pretty good job expanding the characters with their families and such (also I love love love when a book just ignores that homophobia is a thing. no of course I'm not worries that this girl I want to flirt with might be straight and will hate crime me bc homophobia does not exist in this world!). The friends part in this friends-to-lovers story is really well done, I definitely believed Molly and Alex as friends... but I didn't really believe them as lovers. To me, the romance felt like the authors forgot this was supposed to be a romance between Molly and Alex and just shoehorned it in there at the end. So as friends they killed it, but as lovers they killed me.
Oh, and one last thing, I cannot stop thinking about Molly leaving Cora at the art museum after Cora told Molly she had feelings for her, and then went after Alex. She straight up went "actually the person you know is a lie. I made it all up to get you to fall in love with me, and now that you have I regret to tell you that I actually have feelings for someone else so I am going to be leaving you at this art museum for her. Byyyyeee." All I want to know if how that very first English class after that went.
Oh, and one last thing, I cannot stop thinking about Molly leaving Cora at the art museum after Cora told Molly she had feelings for her, and then went after Alex. She straight up went "actually the person you know is a lie. I made it all up to get you to fall in love with me, and now that you have I regret to tell you that I actually have feelings for someone else so I am going to be leaving you at this art museum for her. Byyyyeee." All I want to know if how that very first English class after that went.