A Girl Like That
Ratings3
Average rating4.3
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Ratings3
Average rating4.3
Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk taker. She s also the kind of girl that parents warn their kids to stay away from: a troublemaker whose many romances are the subject of endless gossip at school.
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Counting this was my Saudi Arabia Book Around the World.
This was powerful, sad, and a really well written story from a really great perspective.
DNF @ 100 pages
I gave this a fair shot but it had a tone from the start which just didn't sit right with me.
I understand the intention of the book and that it's not meant to be easy or comfortable but there were some parts where I just thought no thanks.
Read some other critical reviews and I'm okay to leave this one alone.
I personally really enjoyed A Girl Like That and would definitely recommend it to other readers, while keeping the trigger warnings in mind: sexual assault and abuse. My favorite part of this book was absolutely learning more about a different culture
