A review by goatsrsexy
I'm the Girl by Courtney Summers
dark
sad
fast-paced
3.75
Wow. This was an incredibly dark book about a teenage girl who gets caught up in the idea of using her beauty to succeed in life, too naive to understand the danger she's surrounding herself with. She gets caught up with the owners of an exclusive resort for the elite who manipulate and take advantage of her. All the while she's also involved in the investigation of the rape and murder of an even younger girl who's body she discovers at the beginning of the book.
This book is full of triggers and it doesn't have a happy ending. It was honestly completely dreadful to read a lot of the time and the end has me reeling, but I actually really enjoyed it. It was very harsh but it also had a lot of truth to it and unlike a lot of books about this kind of thing, it didn't feel exploitative. I would definitely recommend looking up specific TWs before reading this but if you like dark dramas and crime thrillers you'll most likely enjoy this book.
This book is full of triggers and it doesn't have a happy ending. It was honestly completely dreadful to read a lot of the time and the end has me reeling, but I actually really enjoyed it. It was very harsh but it also had a lot of truth to it and unlike a lot of books about this kind of thing, it didn't feel exploitative. I would definitely recommend looking up specific TWs before reading this but if you like dark dramas and crime thrillers you'll most likely enjoy this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Murder, Child death, and Child abuse