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If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

11 reviews

kia_y_k's review

dark emotional hopeful lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Hate crime, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

Minor: Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Outing, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Death, Biphobia, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Rape, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Bullying, Violence, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

sundayfever's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

Meaningful story, even if some of the details are unrealistic. But the author addresses this in the end. A good read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Outing, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Rape

theabee's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Rape, Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Deadnaming, and Religious bigotry

taibreakfast's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

So good 😭. Excellent storytelling and writing. Pretty much every character came alive for me. Love the ending and the author's note. Peep the content warnings, some scenes are pretty detailed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Outing

Moderate: Deadnaming and Bullying

Minor: Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Drug use, Sexism, and Homophobia

standerson's review against another edition

hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

in which the villain is the bisexual girl who smokes weed

also the author is allegedly a domestic abuser

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Rape, Suicide, Bullying, Deadnaming, Drug use, Hate crime, Mental illness, Medical content, and Transphobia

hazeljade's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

This might be my new personal favorite book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Outing, Physical abuse, Medical content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Deadnaming, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Dysphoria, Lesbophobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Grief, Hate crime, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol

With all of these triggers it is amazingly well written. Looking at all the topics covered I'm surprised how well each was handled so my overall impression of the book was unbelievably positive and encouraging.

bittersorbitol's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective sad tense 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

3.75

The romance wasn't my favourite, but I loved the main character and her friends, as well as the narration style of jumping between past and present scenes. I'm engaged to a trans woman, and while this book certainly does touch on a lot of important and relative topics it's important to keep in mind that a lot of it is fictionalized for ease of understanding (this is addressed directly by the author)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Outing, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Transphobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Bullying

Minor: Toxic friendship and Violence

Deals with a lot of realities of being a trans woman, includes details about

a suicide attempt, as well as a forced public outing resulting in bullying

. Major trigger warning for

attempted rape of the MC near the end of the novel, the attempted rapist's actions are described in detail

babudarabu's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Outing

Moderate: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Sexual content, Dysphoria, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Mental illness, and Blood

trishnasaha's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Deadnaming, and Outing

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Drug use, Bullying, Alcohol, and Addiction

jude7's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Outing, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Biphobia

Minor: Abortion