There's a lot I liked about this book, especially the writing, but none of the characters felt real. There were no characters, except for perhaps Margaret's cousin, where I could honestly say I think that there could be a person in the world who earnestly thinks and acts that way.

I really resonate with something another reviewer said, this book is designed only for people who relate to this fully. I feel like if you have not had a tight knit friend group with homoerotic undertones and a weird fixation on sex without sexual knowledge and no boundaries, in suburban Ohio specifically, I don't think you'd be able to fully connect with this. Having read another sapphic coming of age summer novel, whose circumstances I could relate even less to but I still fully connected with, Girl's Girl left me wanting a bit more.

Also yeah you do not need to simply explain the sims gameplay.

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I think I appreciated the ending. I know that the story is not that Mina and Elenor have a love for the ages that will last forever, but I think the transition from "we're teenagers and just found our first love!" to "we're adults who live in different cities and clearly aren't together" feels both inevitable and like I wish there was a little more to bridge the gap.