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_The Girls I’ve Been_, Tess Sharpe
Fiction, contemporary.
This is a _ride_. It’s supposedly going to be a Netflix movie with Millie Bobby Brown, but I haven’t seen anything about it since the end of 2021 so who even knows.
The title character (yeah, I know) was raised by her mother, a grifter, and rescued from her mother by her half-sister. The book opens with our heroine, her girlfriend, and her ex-boyfriend in the lobby of a bank trying to deposit some money they raised for an animal shelter when a couple of Bad Guys take everyone in the bank hostage while trying to figure out where the manager is for some reason or other. Lots and lots of flashbacks to tell the earlier life story of the title character.
It’s complicated, and very edge-of-the-seat, and the girlfriend is adorable. Also, there is _so_ much awful in the backstory of the three main characters and others as well / even more. I did finish the book, because I was betting on a satisfying ending, and indeed, it is a mostly satisfying ending. But I don’t think I will read any more by this author. This was just too stressful. ETA: Perhaps that is unfair. Perhaps her other books would be less jarring. The Six Times We Almost Kissed _might_ be downright charming and cozy. Hard to say. Not sure I’m willing to risk it.
This is a _ride_. It’s supposedly going to be a Netflix movie with Millie Bobby Brown, but I haven’t seen anything about it since the end of 2021 so who even knows.
The title character (yeah, I know) was raised by her mother, a grifter, and rescued from her mother by her half-sister. The book opens with our heroine, her girlfriend, and her ex-boyfriend in the lobby of a bank trying to deposit some money they raised for an animal shelter when a couple of Bad Guys take everyone in the bank hostage while trying to figure out where the manager is for some reason or other. Lots and lots of flashbacks to tell the earlier life story of the title character.
It’s complicated, and very edge-of-the-seat, and the girlfriend is adorable. Also, there is _so_ much awful in the backstory of the three main characters and others as well / even more. I did finish the book, because I was betting on a satisfying ending, and indeed, it is a mostly satisfying ending. But I don’t think I will read any more by this author. This was just too stressful. ETA: Perhaps that is unfair. Perhaps her other books would be less jarring. The Six Times We Almost Kissed _might_ be downright charming and cozy. Hard to say. Not sure I’m willing to risk it.