Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers5/7/2023 By, someone has tried to kill her on, she discovers the brutalized corpse of Ashley James, a local 13-year-old girl, discarded in a ditch near Aspera. More horrors quickly unfold through Georgia’s dazed perspective. She’s kneeling in front of a man in the back storeroom of a mall. “I’m the Girl” begins with Georgia lost in thought as she’s caught in a vile predicament. In a slow-burn narrative that eventually turns blistering, Georgia discovers the extent of the lie she’s fallen for. Georgia now insists her bombshell allure is her one important asset, that it gives her power over the men who want her. Georgia is going to be something - emphasis on “thing.” When she was 13, Matthew Hayes - the obscenely wealthy owner of Aspera, an A-list resort on the edge of town - told her she was beautiful, that her looks would free her from her down-and-out life. Georgia (or George, as friends call her) may have a recently deceased mother and a brother drowning in debt, but her dreams of upward mobility eclipse her grief. Georgia Avis, the 16-year-old lesbian heroine of Summers’s newest novel, “I’m the Girl,” is an exception. Even when fighting off zombies or dismantling cults, the teen girl protagonists of her novels shoulder immense personal trauma, facing abusive peers, absent or dead parents and - overwhelmingly - sexual violence. Courtney Summers’s books are not for the faint of heart.
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