Angel McAllister’s worst nightmare has come true. Her best friend, Sharice Bell, has discovered her most intimate secret. And a new enemy, LaDonna Burns, is on the warpath. Gossip and rumors are spreading through school like wildfire, and Angel’s classmates are turning on her. Can she bury the secret and put out the flames? Or will Angel face the truth—and its life-changing consequences?

Review:

Girls Like Me is a companion novel set in the Bluford High series. This is my first time ever reading anything from this series and I wanted to start out by reading this book first. This story is about a 14 year old girl named Angel. She is struggling badly when it comes to making friends at school, dating boys, she feels she’s very different from other girls she sees. 

Angel’s home life isn’t any better. Angel’s mom has fallen into a deep depression by smoking everyday, drinking, not attending to her daughters it’s like she has completely given up. This is due to divorce she is going through and Angel’s mom is having a hard time coping.

Angel’s best friend at school Sherise is so determined to hook her up with a boy for the 8th grade dance so that when she starts high school she would already be in a relationship. Sherise just wouldn’t let the issue go.

Angel keeps a journal of her person thoughts and Sherise read it and found out that Angel is gay. This turned her world upside down. She lost her best friend and she became a target a school.

In the end Angel learned to embrace who she was she has the people who truly loves and cares about and even made some new friends from this situation.

Final thoughts:

I enjoyed reading this Angel’s best friend was very annoying to keep pushing dating on her when she didn’t want to do it. Sherise acted very childish when she found Angel was gay and she ended up missing out on a good friendship now she has no one she can turn to due to her bad attitude. In the future I may pick up another Blueford High book based on this one I read. This story had a real life lesson for young readers and it shows no matter how different you are continue to be yourself and never hide who you are to please anyone.

Rating: 4 ⭐

Buy on Amazon: Girls Like Me #21