The It Girl

The It Girl

2022 • 432 pages

Ratings101

Average rating3.5

15

Slow slow SLOW. Slow and boring for almost all of it. Almost DNF'd, but stuck it out because I was curious enough to see where it was going. What hooked me was the way it highlights an imperfect victim in April. Messy girls deserve dignity too, and this book does a great job exploring that idea. 
I guess it did pick up in the last, like 1/5 of the book. 
Didn't like that the motivation for the murder was only given to us through the main character's speculation. And then the motivation itself was lame. It feels lazy to leave things open to interpretation in a book like this. 
I did like how the pranking thing came full circle. 
At the very least it all made sense, the reveal was plausible if not necessarily believable, didn't leave any loose ends that bothered me. 

April 23, 2024