Title: The Goodbye Girls
Author: Lisa Harrington
Page count: 248
Published: June 2018
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Genre: Teen / YA
Received: Netgallay
Rating: 2.5/5
Summary:
The students at Lizzie’s high school are notoriously terrible at breakups. Forget awkward conversations—they’re dumping each other via text. Inspired by the terrible breakups around her, sixteen-year-old Lizzie, strapped for cash and itching to go on the school’s band trip to NYC, teams up with her best friend, Willa, to create a genius business: personalized gift baskets—breakup baskets—sent from dumper to dumpee. The Goodbye Girls operate in secret, and business is booming. But it’s not long before someone begins sabotaging The Goodbye Girls, sending impossibly cruel baskets to seemingly random targets, undermining everything Lizzie and Willa have built and jeopardizing their anonymity. Soon family, friendship, and a budding romance are on the line. Will Lizzie end up saying goodbye to the business for good?
My Thoughts:
I really wanted to like this book. The synopsis of it sounded so good, I haven’t read or heard of any like it, that’s why I was so interested in it.
While reading this book, Lizzie was the best part of it although maybe a little immature at times. Willa was rather annoying, because she was always getting after Lizzie about certain things were imo she had no right to do. Also going after Lizzie’s older sister Trisha I mean she’s not the nicest person ever but I still don’t think that Willa should have said the things she said. It was really hard for me to like her.
I did like that here was a mystery to who was sending the mysterious breakup baskets.
Not sure what else to say other than… this book wasn’t for me. I really did want to like it, just felt like something was lacking.
*I was given this book by netgalley in exchange for an honest review*
Latteandbookz 