Faith Simon's Reviews > A Girl Like That

I... sort of don't know what to say about this book? I mean, all I've heard about this is rave reviews, and sure it tackles some serious subject matter, but now that I've finished the entire story I'm just... underwhelmed?
This book takes place in a non-Western setting which is great in its own right, and deals with subjects of slut-shaming, sexual assault, abuse, among other things, and so the book can be praised highly for these things. But the story? That's arguable.
The synopsis tells readers that the story is told through a lot of different perspectives, so this had me imagining Zarin's story would be told solely through perspectives that weren't hers (I think this would have been better for the story and had a better sense of mystery where readers had to piece certain events together), but instead a significant part of the storytelling was told by Zarin. And the fact that we also got her point of view after she had died I thought was weird and didn't really add to the story in any way.
I mean, this was by no means boring, it was interesting, I just didn't really find it that great or life-changing like the reviews sort of led me to believe?
I did learn a lot of different things from a different culture which was nice, but other than that I can't say much about this book.