itsbibliotherapy 's review for:

All Girls by Emily Layden

2.0

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This book took on a very trendy topic - sexual assault on a boarding school campus - and somehow did very little with it. It’s hard to enjoy a meandering, character-driven, bureaucratic story about this important issue when other books - namely, Notes on a Silencing in the nonfiction space and My Dark Vanessa in the fiction realm - did it so much better! I did not understand or like how the story was told from the perspective of nine different girls - all of whom you meet exactly one time and then promptly forget because you never really see them again. The only enjoyment I got from this were the nostalgic references to boarding school traditions (white graduation dresses, anyone?) that I myself experienced. All in all, it missed the mark.