This seriously had me gaping 0: So good and intense. That ending D: Loses a star for

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animal cruelty

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Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler lives in New York in 1993. We follow her life, she is in love with her best friend and she is… not like other girls?

Objectively, this book might really be it for someone, maybe it is super good? For me it was okay. Maybe it is the genre, or the writing. I’m not sure.

I liked Lucy well enough, her character was interesting and different. Still, I don’t like how this book is supposed to be for feminism (I think?) but still, other women in this book were not smart or good enough if they came across as stupid for Lucy. Because they used makeup or was interested in other things, Lucy judges them. I guess we all judge each other, but shouldn’t all women be respected and thought well of no matter how they present themselves?

This brings me to the next point, because I think the book is trying to get a message across? Or several? There was at least a lot of political and philosophy thoughts in there, I just sort of got lost. When I read books similar in this pattern I don’t understand what it is getting at, maybe it just me. But I didn’t feel touched or inspired by what I read, ‘bored’ is the word I would describe myself with at these parts of the book.

That is what I felt the whole book was about really. Lucy, who is different and because she is different there is a lot of questions of beauty, art, the world, sex, insecurities etc. I could go on. I mean, we all have these questions in life, and as mentioned above I think there is good book in here. I just didn’t feel it.

I still believe a lot of people will like this and I hope they do! I just don’t think it is a story that will stick with me, but it is not something I regret reading. 3 stars!

Thank you so much to NetGalley for providing me with this eArc.