Book Review: Girls Save the World in This One

Girls Save the World in This One by Ash Parsons

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In my lifetime as a fellow bookworm 📚🐛 I haven’t read many survival YA books and basically close to zero books that have zombies in them. So, when I read the synopsis of the book, I knew I got to read it ASAP. I mean, there’s nothing more that I enjoy reading than strong female friendship groups, especially if the said friendship group has to save the entire world from an army of zombies when all hell breaks loose at the TV show convention they’re attending.

The thing that stood out to me in the book is the trio of friends (June, Siggy, and Imani) constantly supporting each other through the ups and downs. It was honestly a DELIGHT to read, and I was constantly rooting for them. Like, I want to have their type of friendship in my life, lol. #squadgoals

However, the thing I had issues with was the book’s writing style. Personally, I like my dialogue and actions to be pretty evenly balanced, but in this book, there was a bit too much of the characters “doing”. Honestly, it makes sense why this book had more “doing” because of all the action-packed events, but it was kinda a drag at some points. Also, there’s Hunter. To be frank, I think the romance in this book (June and Hunter) was completely unnecessary and took away from the actual book, which was a surprise to me because I love romance books…I guess it wasn’t my cup of tea in this case 🤷‍♀️

So, to sum it all up, this was a quick read with great MCs, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I definitely think that other people might really love this book…it just wasn’t for me since I think it could have wayyyy more potential. 

Rating: ⅗ stars

-Review by Teen Advisory Board Member, 4/18/21