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A review by thechanelmuse
The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe
3.0
Have you ever been in an awkward situation where you were held hostage in a bank heist alongside your girlfriend and ex-boyfriend? Well, our con-artist protagonist, Nora, has.
The Girls I’ve Been starts off strong, clever and funny, but manages to lose its thrill as it fluctuates between short chapters of fast-paced sequences during the present-day action in the bank to the slower-paced chapters of our characters backstories filled with childhood abuse, abandonment, and other forms of trauma that takes up a great deal of the book. It feels disjointed and unorganized at times, almost like it’s two books in one—our main story and a prequel.
It’s not a bad book, just not great one.
The Girls I’ve Been is being adapted into a Netflix movie starring Millie Bobby Brown. Maybe this will pan out better for the screen since it already reads like one.
The Girls I’ve Been starts off strong, clever and funny, but manages to lose its thrill as it fluctuates between short chapters of fast-paced sequences during the present-day action in the bank to the slower-paced chapters of our characters backstories filled with childhood abuse, abandonment, and other forms of trauma that takes up a great deal of the book. It feels disjointed and unorganized at times, almost like it’s two books in one—our main story and a prequel.
It’s not a bad book, just not great one.
The Girls I’ve Been is being adapted into a Netflix movie starring Millie Bobby Brown. Maybe this will pan out better for the screen since it already reads like one.