A review by sarah200619
Girls of July by Alex Flinn

3.0

so my mom and my sister dragged me up to a cabin this past week in what im pretty sure is literally the middle of nowhere and since i literally hate the wilderness i decided to bring a book and since this one is about four girls sharing a cabin for a couple weeks, it seemed perfect and i thought i would end up reading it within like three days. obviously that did not happen. instead i spent the entire week watching brooklyn nine-nine. (fantastic show, if you haven’t seen it you totally should.) but anyways, this book was eh. it struggled to keep my interest and it feels like the characters are written much younger than they’re supposed to be. also with the exceptions of ruthie & spider, the characters are very stereotypical and unlike with books like “one of us is lying”, i’m pretty sure its not intentional. kate is very melodramatic and all “woe is me”. i didn’t LOVE britta at first, but i grew to like her. spider is my favorite, shes an icon and the one who i relate to the most, meredith i liked as well, mainly because she reminds me of my best friend in real life lmao. i feel like i should mention that i sorta imagined spider as a young katie mcgrath (if you know who this is please message me immediately i need someone to simp over her with :)if that makes sense? i did like meredith and harmon together. stan ruthie. britta and spider were in love and i cannot be convinced otherwise. the story itself was a bit dull ig, it was a little too long and i hated the “ray-ray” plotline (mainly because i hate kids in general lmao) but the book makes up for it with characters and the friendships they have.