Guy's Girl
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4.8 • 10 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Noyes's appealing adult debut (following the YA trilogy The Sunken City), college graduates navigate relationships and work in the "real world." At Harvard, Ginny Murphy preferred to hang with her "free from the drama" guy friends, a routine she was used to after growing up with three brothers. After graduation, Ginny struggles with anxiety as well as anorexia and bulimia as she climbs the ladder at a global beer company. When a promotion transfers her from Minnesota to Manhattan, she moves in with three of her male college friends, but rather than the easygoing dynamic she hoped for, her new living situation comes with complications. For starters, there's her romantic past with Finch and her new feelings for Adrian, whose room she takes in the apartment when he moves into his own place. As Ginny and Adrian grow closer, Adrian doubts he's relationship material, due to his difficult childhood that left him feeling incapable of love. When the roommates and Adrian travel to his native Hungary for vacation and Ginny's eating disorders worsen, she must confront her feelings for both Finch and Adrian, and Adrian must decide what matters most—keeping himself "safe" or allowing for some vulnerability. Noyes beautifully captures the joy and stress of becoming a newly minted adult. This sings of both restlessness and hope.
