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A review by taylorbroek
Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh
3.0
For fans of Jane Austens sense and sensibly set in the present and the dramatic fast-talking flare of Anne of green gables but in complaint form. This YA fiction felt more middle grade but with big words. About sisterhood and sister rivalry, family & first loves.
Ginny is the older sister and it a senior in high school and is absolutely having a melt down at every moment of everyday about how her life sucks and she’ll never get into college and she’ll end up living in a cardboard box even though she is very smart and goes to a very fine ($$$) prep school. Plum is the younger sister who just wants to be loved by her older sister. Also smart but a loner and very bookish she picks logic over melodrama and doesn’t really care about her pre-destiny to be a writer like her parents are/were.
They live in a very very old house that their grandma I think owned. It is full of charm and old pipes and memories of their late father. Their mother does fundraising and is constantly thinking of when needs to happen for the next fundraiser they’re hosting at their house while trying to keep the family financially afloat. They also have a tenet, almost Dr. Andrew’s who spends a lot of time with the family.
It’s a cute and easy read but ginny is frustrating at times. Very light on the romance and the way plum treats Tate the jock is also frustrating at times.
Rep: Tate is Jewish
Almost doctor Andrew’s is gay
Ginny is the older sister and it a senior in high school and is absolutely having a melt down at every moment of everyday about how her life sucks and she’ll never get into college and she’ll end up living in a cardboard box even though she is very smart and goes to a very fine ($$$) prep school. Plum is the younger sister who just wants to be loved by her older sister. Also smart but a loner and very bookish she picks logic over melodrama and doesn’t really care about her pre-destiny to be a writer like her parents are/were.
They live in a very very old house that their grandma I think owned. It is full of charm and old pipes and memories of their late father. Their mother does fundraising and is constantly thinking of when needs to happen for the next fundraiser they’re hosting at their house while trying to keep the family financially afloat. They also have a tenet, almost Dr. Andrew’s who spends a lot of time with the family.
It’s a cute and easy read but ginny is frustrating at times. Very light on the romance and the way plum treats Tate the jock is also frustrating at times.
Rep: Tate is Jewish
Almost doctor Andrew’s is gay