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.
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What I thought about Guy's Girl
Ginny Murphy likes hanging out with the guys. I immediately liked her
for that! She has a group of male friends from college that she hangs
out with because she feels more comfortable with the "guys" and for some
very specific reasons. She's got something to hide and feels the men
aren't as observant.
She doesn't want a romance with any of these
guys either. Well, maybe that time she had with Finch, but then there's
the mysterious Adrian. He inspires butterflies in the stomach whenever
he's around Ginny. They can't help but listen to what they are
experiencing and feeling whenever they are together.
They both
have secrets. Ginny's is potentially devastating and the reader learns
early in the story that she is dealing with a bulimia/anorexia disorder.
She 's hiding it from everyone. Adrian's secret is a bit less
devastating but could put a damper on their burgeoning romance -- he's
witnessed a broken heart and doesn't want to go anywhere near that
heartache.
Ginny's disorder drives a lot of this story but
there's a lot more going on here. I really found the view of her eating
disorder both interesting and disturbing. It was worth the time to learn
about this myself as I was reading. My heart hurt for Ginny and the
depths of her secret -- I could feel the weight of it all in the words
on the page. I liked that about the book, and I loved that emotional
connection to the story.
While Ginny's eating disorder and its
emotional landscape takes a bit of page time, the romance between Adrian
and Ginny captivated me as well. It's easy to want these two characters
to have it all, only they will need trust and bravery to get there. I
liked that about the story. The stakes are high, and so are the rewards
if they can figure themselves out. This is really a story about
repressing your feelings and what that can do to you.
I was
sucked into this story from the start and couldn't stop until I knew
what was going to happen to Adrian and Ginny. It doesn't spare any gory
relationship details and that was a definite plus for me in my reading
of this title.
About the Author
Emma Noyes told her mother she wanted to be an author when she was six. She grew up in a suburb outside Chicago and attended Harvard University, where she studied history & literature. She started her career at a beer company, but left because she wanted to write about mermaids and witches—eventually publishing her first YA fantasy series, The Sunken City. She now lives in Chicago with her Swedish fiancé and miniature Pomeranian. GUY'S GIRL is her adult debut.
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