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The boy who couldn’t love and the girl who wouldn’t. Ginny Murphy is a total guy’s girl. She’s always found friendships with boys easier to form and keep drama-free – as long as they don’t fall for her, and she doesn’t fall for them. She and her best guy friends have stuck to that. But then she meets Adrian Silvas, the only one who’s ever made her crave more, and Ginny begins to question her own rules. Piece by piece, Ginny and Adrian begin to fall into something intoxicating, something dangerous. Ginny threatens to destroy the belief Adrian's held ever since witnessing his own mother’s heartbreak: that love isn’t worth the risk. For Ginny, the stakes could be even higher. Letting Adrian get close could mean exposing a secret she’s long protected: her disordered eating. Ginny isn’t looking to be saved by someone. But maybe she and Adrian can help each other – if they don’t destroy each other first. Heartfelt and evocative, Guy's Girl is a powerful story about true love, self-love, and growing up.
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DNF one-third in.
Honestly, I understand the need to bring in anorexia and bulimia in literature and that was not my issue with the book. My issue was with the writing that really didn't resonate with me and I tried to push through as I don't like to DNF books but...
Ginny felt more like a cry-baby than a protagonist. Like seriously, in the 100 pages I read of this book, i felt like she spent 99.5% of her time complaining about something and sure, she has mentally illness but i was just fighting falling asleep while reading...
Also, what is the point of a 4-sentence chapter ? It doesn't give any details as to what the character is feeling. I felt like I was trying to read someone notes to help them write an actual chapter but the author ran out of time and was like “fuck it, I'll rewrite my little blurb and call it a day”.
If you enjoyed this book, I'm really happy for you, but it wasn't my cup of tea.