Hello my lovely readers!
I saw this on Libby and thought I'd give it a try....but it didn't leave a lasting impression. Let's get into it.
SYNOPSIS
Mary used to be a nice girl. She was the quiet, chubby teen with the scholarship to an Ivy League school and the resident whiz kid of her hometown in Minnesota.
Three years after her high school graduation, she returns home as a thinner, cynical and restless failure who was kicked out of Cornell at the beginning of her senior year and won't tell anyone why. Now as she begins work at the local grocery store, Mary tries to make sense of her life's sharp downward spiral.
But then her once best friend, Olivia goes missing. The town obsesses over her disappearance but Mary wonders if her disappearance is tied to another missing girl, DeMaria, whose case has been dismissed as a runaway.
Mary pries at the cracks of the tow missing girls and will force her to confront horrible truths. Maybe there are no nice girls, after all.
MY THOUGHTS
This book felt like a departure from its title. This book had nothing to do with "nice girls," and all to do with these missing girls. I felt like the author tried to stick everything in here all at once and it just didn't pan out.
There's commentary about the lack of attention Black girls receive when they go missing. There's commentary about the red pill community. There's commentary about slut-shaming. There's commentary about just about everything.
There was a lot of potential with this novel to really take a deep look into policing disparities between social status, gender, race and class. However, because the author threw too much at the wall, nothing connected for me and it came across as shallow.
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