Kate Reads's Reviews > About a Girl

First I want to say that the language/writing style of this book is intense and I found a lot of the descriptions beautiful e.g. “There were a thousand questions I could have asked her, but I didn’t know where to start, and so I left them all buzzing in my mouth like bees battering a windowpane.”

I was not prepared for the sheer weirdness of this story especially given how normal the first half of the book feels. I mean this girl's family life is non-traditional (which I loved) but the first half of this book seems like a fairly real story - a girl is struggling with first love and having been abandoned by her mother with no real idea who her father is.

Her journey to find her family at best strange and at worst disturbing and completely magical.

I never grew particularly fond of any of the characters in this book except perhaps Raoul and Henri, but I had to know what all the weirdness was about once it got started.

Thanks to Netgalley for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review