A review by minimicropup
A Girl Like Us by Anna Sophia McLoughlin

Did not finish book. Stopped at 42%.
This was dragging on and on, so I skimmed ahead to the ending, and this sounds so mean, but it was written as if it was such an original plot that the reader would need a lot of hand-holding and explaining to understand it….except it's based on common, predictable tropes. Which is fine if a story is intriguing enough to carry it, but for me, it wasn’t. 
 
  • The writing is okay, but the book is too long with too much filler. 
  • The pacing is incredibly slow. Entire chapters seemed dedicated to rehashing information we already know without offering new details or moving the story forward. It felt like I was reading the same internal musings over and over. 
  • This is a story type I’ve read (and watched) countless times and I like these tropes. But nothing felt intriguing. At 10% in I could predict where this story was going and that’s where it went. It relies so heavily on being twisty that it becomes boring if you already know where it’s headed. 
  • I like melodrama in rich people behaving badly/secret past stories, but this felt more like a drawn-out soap opera with dramatic ‘dun dun dun’ moments that didn’t land for me. 
  • All the characters lacked depth. We’re frequently reminded one of the characters is ‘not like the other girls’ in a forced, one-dimensional way. 
 
📚 Format: Advance Reader’s Copy from Sourcebooks Landmark and NetGalley
 
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