A review by enne
Because I Was a Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages by Melissa de la Cruz

3.0

So, this book sounds just like something I would enjoy, right? I mean a collection of short stories about women overcoming the challenges that are presented to them because of the fact that they are women. What’s there not to love about that? Turns out, there are things. First of all, the writing felt extremely childish, like the authors were talking down to the readers, which I was not a fan of, at all. The stories were also pretty short, and the writing was very basic in most of them. Libba Bray’s was the exception and was the one I really loved. Other than that, the message carried throughout the stories was nice, but the execution could have been better. A lot of the stuff the authors in the stories also felt a bit repetitive, but I don’t know, that might just be me.