Can’t Wait Wednesday is a book blogging meme hosted over at Wishful Endings. It’s to discuss and spotlight books that you’re excited about but that you haven’t read yet, to get you more excited about your TBR pile! It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, which is hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine. I first heard about this meme from Kappa at Kappa Reads!
I’m the Girl by Courtney Summers
352 pages
publishes September 13th, 2022
The next searing and groundbreaking queer young adult novel from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Courtney Summers, already hailed as…
“A stirring, thought-provoking thriller.”—Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push
“A stunner.”—Kate Elizabeth Russell, New York Times bestselling author of My Dark Vanessa
“Powerful.”—Angeline Boulley, #1 New York Times bestselling and Printz Award-winning author of Firekeeper’s Daughter
“Summers’ latest masterful thriller takes on the world of wealth and privilege to examine questions of power, predatory behavior, and, ultimately, complicity, and agency… a heartbreaking, brutal, and devastatingly realistic novel.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis discovers the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James, she teams up with Ashley’s older sister, Nora, to find and bring the killer to justice before he strikes again. But their investigation throws Georgia into a world of unimaginable privilege and wealth, without conscience or consequence, and as Ashley’s killer closes in, Georgia will discover when money, power and beauty rule, it might not be a matter of who is guilty—but who is guiltiest.
A spiritual successor to the breakout hit Sadie, I’m the Girl is a bold and masterfully written account of how one young woman feels in her body as she struggles to navigate a deadly and predatory power structure while asking readers one question: if this is the way the world is, do you accept it?
I’m SCREAMING at this description – “if this is the way the world is, do you accept it?” PLEASE. A thriller, probably sapphic, a book that’s described as “brutal”? From an Edgar award winner? Please! That’s exactly my alley. I’m SO pumped. Booksweet link. Storygraph link. Goodreads link.
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