Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️
Audiobook rating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧
Blurb
The boy who couldn’t love and the girl who wouldn’t.
Ginny Murphy is a total guy’s girl. She’s always found friendships with boys easier to form and keep drama-free – as long as they don’t fall for her, and she doesn’t fall for them. She and her best guy friends have stuck to that. But then she meets Adrian Silvas, the only one who’s ever made her crave more, and Ginny begins to question her own rules.
Piece by piece, Ginny and Adrian begin to fall into something intoxicating, something dangerous. Ginny threatens to destroy the belief Adrian's held ever since witnessing his own mother’s heartbreak: that love isn’t worth the risk. For Ginny, the stakes could be even higher. Letting Adrian get close could mean exposing a secret she’s long protected: her disordered eating.
Ginny isn’t looking to be saved by someone. But maybe she and Adrian can help each other – if they don’t destroy each other first.
Heartfelt and evocative, Guy's Girl is a powerful story about true love, self-love, and growing up.
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Read if you Like:
🌷 Eating disorder rep
🌷 Dual POV
🌷 NYC setting
🌷 Trauma survivor
🌷 Caregiving
My Thoughts:
Guy's Girl is an emotional story about what it's like to struggle with an eating disorder. You can really tell that Emma Noyes put her whole heart into making people who have gone through this feel seen.
I really enjoyed reading Ginny's story. It definitely had its heavy moments, but I loved getting to see Ginny's journey. I really enjoyed getting to see Adrian caring for her and helping her heal. I also appreciated getting his POV so that we could see how Ginny's view of the situation was affected by her disorder.
I also liked how this story talked about Ginny's friendships with men and how they fed into these issues. I think people would usually this wouldn't be the case, so I thought it was an interesting perspective.
One thing that I struggled a little bit with was the descriptions of vomiting in this book. I had to skip certain parts of those descriptions. While I think it was totally relevant to the book, I wanted to include it in my review for anyone else like me who is sensitive to those descriptions.
I have one small criticism of this book and that is that I don't think the terminology being used to describe the heroine's disorder was correct. It was repeatedly called bulimia but it is also implied that she is underweight. Anyone with a BMI below a certain point is considered anorexic even if they are binging and purging. I don't think this point changes the accuracy of the representation in the book, but I do think it is worth noting.
🌶️🌶️ - Guy's Girl didn't have very detailed steamy scenes though there were a few open-door scenes, they were mostly fade to black or not too detailed. There are also descriptions of unpleasant sexual encounters in the past.
🎧🎧🎧🎧- I enjoyed the audiobook of Guy's Girl. Lori Prince is a new to me narrator but she has experience with other romance books. I thought she did a great job!
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