Helpful Score: 1
Imagine coming out as transgender to some trans-phobic students in the middle of your college cafeteria line. Now, compound that scenario with the fact that you are actually living as and comfortable with your birth gender you were simply trying to shut up some closed-minded individuals and protect a total stranger, since they'd learned SOMEONE on campus was indeed transgender.
This is the premise behind Rachel Gold's Just Girls. Just Girls is a follow-up to the author's earlier Being Emily, but is not a sequel. (Readers of the second book will learn how the main characters of the first book can show up in the second without it truly being a sequel.) Ms. Gold provides us with a (school) year in the life of some students at fictitious Freytag University in Ohio. The pacing of the book feels more like a ride on a merry-go-round than a roller coaster, never taking us too high or too low, nor too fast nor too slow much like life itself.
I found that the plot, while interesting, was secondary to the characters themselves. I found myself truly caring whether Jess, Ella, and their friends were enjoying their days or suffering through them. (Again, like life, they do some of both.)
Ms. Gold you've written yourself another winner. I am looking forward to the sequel (which I understand is already underway )
RATING: 5 stars.
This is the premise behind Rachel Gold's Just Girls. Just Girls is a follow-up to the author's earlier Being Emily, but is not a sequel. (Readers of the second book will learn how the main characters of the first book can show up in the second without it truly being a sequel.) Ms. Gold provides us with a (school) year in the life of some students at fictitious Freytag University in Ohio. The pacing of the book feels more like a ride on a merry-go-round than a roller coaster, never taking us too high or too low, nor too fast nor too slow much like life itself.
I found that the plot, while interesting, was secondary to the characters themselves. I found myself truly caring whether Jess, Ella, and their friends were enjoying their days or suffering through them. (Again, like life, they do some of both.)
Ms. Gold you've written yourself another winner. I am looking forward to the sequel (which I understand is already underway )
RATING: 5 stars.
