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A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert

10 reviews

hennie's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

How is it that every Talia Hibbert book has me giggling and kicking my feet? Now I also want someone to cook for me and read the books I give them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Fatphobia, Racism, and Domestic abuse

peachani's review against another edition

inspiring mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing and Bullying

Minor: Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Rape, Abandonment, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Violence, Ableism, and Cancer

bookwormbullet's review

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Physical abuse, and Racism

Minor: Death of parent, Ableism, and Cancer

skaurgo's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Stalking, Terminal illness, Rape, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Ableism, Toxic relationship, Racism, and Sexual harassment

downsophialane's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Talia Hibbert's book are so readable, but I think this remains my favourite. Town pariah Ruth is endlessly sympathetic, and romantic hero Evan is an example of a sweet cinnamon roll hero who also has a legitimate character arc (not always a given). While this is a sweet, sexy small town romance, it does involve a coersive relationship (mostly in the heroine's past, but it does rear its ugly head on page too, so readers be aware of that). With consideration of that content warning, I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a sexy small town romance. 

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

🍎 TO TEACH? 
I love Talia Hibbert's narrative voice so much, I wish I could get away with using excerpts in class, but I fear everything is way too sexy to use in a high school! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical content, Cancer, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Fatphobia

zabeishumanish's review against another edition

inspiring medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

I greatly enjoyed this story. Small town romances where one of the characters is the town pariah tend to stress me out, but the depths of redemption in this story made this a remarkable read. I was fascinated to read about Ruth’s story, an autistic woman recovering from intimate partner violence, is a unique and compelling read. I appreciated that while Ruth’s race was relevant to the story racial trauma was not. After all she dealt with I don’t know that I could have watch Ruth go through more pain. While the intimate partner violence is detailed it is viewed through the lends of time, several years of separation. The violence may still be triggering for some audiences, but Ruth has clearly done considerable process and none of the accounts are first person so I assume many triggers would be less intense. I also appreciated seeing how Ruth’s experiences shaped the small town and her sister, who I assume is the next MC in the series. 
My biggest complaint is how abrupt the ending was. There feels like far too many loose endings from the story and while not every element of a story needs be resolved I think very few elements of this story were actually resolved. Perhaps Evan and Ruth’s relationship was actually the only plot point that was resolved. I suppose that sets up the series rather well, but for this story it is incredibly annoying. 
My other complaint is sure minor, which is just that we didn’t see more of Ruth’s art. I found what Ruth did describe of her comic fascinating and wish I knew more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Classism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, and Body shaming

Minor: Pregnancy

Ruth is in a secret seven year abusive relationship. Evan’s mother dies of cancer in his late teen years. A side character’s mother has terminal cancer.

_savannahreads_'s review

lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Stalking, Ableism, Bullying, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, and Sexual harassment

edithcazares02's review against another edition

funny lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This was truly hilarious to me, like I found myself just laughing at loud so many times. And I was absolutely pleasantly surprised at Talia’s humor. 

I’m so glad that this was my first talia book, because if things only get better from here, I can’t wait to continue. 

My only complaint could be that it was a little slow to me in the beginning, I felt like some places were dragging and could’ve been explored so much earlier than things were. Obviously when the plot picked up, I couldn’t put the book down and had to finish it in one sitting. So I completely got
Sucked into it, but couldn’t help but feel that it felt rushed? 

The female protagonists was so reluctant and so negative towards herself that when she finally started opening up it kind of felt like it was overnight, while there were signs of her coming to terms with things and starting to verbally express herself, I think it could’ve been more flushed out. 
I think that the pacing was my problem, but overall it was still so enjoyable to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Minor: Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Stalking

tomi_delano's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Gaslighting

annalisaely's review

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved the autism representation and the very sweet relationship between neighbors. It was also good to see a woman main character who had had a number of previous sexual partners and neither she nor her love interest had a problem with that. Add in the relationships between the heroine and her family and you have an all around good time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexism, Fatphobia, and Emotional abuse

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