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A review by maggiemaggio
Just a Girl by Carrie Mesrobian
3.0
What a weird ending.
Seeing as it took me seven months to finish this book (I read about 30% of it over 2 days and then stopped it for 7 months and then finished the rest of it over 3 days once I picked it back up), I guess I can't really say I enjoyed it. The story is really character driven so it makes sense that I wasn't dying to keep turning the page. It was nice to read a story that takes place in MN and be familiar with the places and things they were talking about. While the story raised a lot of interesting issues about gender (and also socioeconomic issues) it didn't quite go there enough for me. Given Mesrobian's other books I expected something more both with the gender questions and also with the whole story, but it just never quite came together. I did enjoy Rianne as a character and really liked her honesty and the out of the ordinary observations she was prone to make.
Seeing as it took me seven months to finish this book (I read about 30% of it over 2 days and then stopped it for 7 months and then finished the rest of it over 3 days once I picked it back up), I guess I can't really say I enjoyed it. The story is really character driven so it makes sense that I wasn't dying to keep turning the page. It was nice to read a story that takes place in MN and be familiar with the places and things they were talking about. While the story raised a lot of interesting issues about gender (and also socioeconomic issues) it didn't quite go there enough for me. Given Mesrobian's other books I expected something more both with the gender questions and also with the whole story, but it just never quite came together. I did enjoy Rianne as a character and really liked her honesty and the out of the ordinary observations she was prone to make.