A review by act_10
What Girls Are Made of by Elana K. Arnold

3.0

Honestly, the only thing that saved this book from a 2 star rating was the author note at the end. I didn’t like this story. I didn’t like the main character. I felt the book got a bit preachy in a very progressive, liberal way. But hearing (I did this one as an audiobook) the authors intention, I get where she was trying to go with it. It was meant to be empowering to young women, but to me it seemed like a teenager making a lot of really bad choices all in a row. Yes, she gets better by the end, but I still didn’t like her. The author talks about how she LOVES Nina, but for her it’s like loving one of her kids. She wrote this girl into existence, so she kinda has to love her.

The small, intertwining stories and martyr tales were pretty interesting though. Probably the best parts of the book