Blog Tour, Giveaway & Review: Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the LIKE OTHER GIRLS by Britta Lundin Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out
my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About the Book

Title: LIKE OTHER GIRLS

Author: Britta Lundin

Pub. Date: August 3, 2021

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 384

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

“What if I played football?” I ask. As soon as it’s
out of my mouth, I feel stupid. Even suggesting it feels like I’ve overstepped
some kind of invisible line we’ve all agreed not to discuss. We don’t talk
about how Mara is different from other girls. We don’t talk about how Mara is
gay but no one says so. But when I do stuff like this, I worry it gets harder
for us all to ignore what’s right in front of us. I direct my gaze to Quinn.
“What do you think?”

“I think it’s frickin’ genius,” he says.

After getting kicked off the basketball team for a fight that was absolutely
totally not her fault (okay maybe a little her fault), Mara is dying to find a
new sport to play to prove to her coach that she can be a team player. A
lifelong football fan, Mara decides to hit the gridiron with her brother, Noah,
and best friend, Quinn-and she turns out to be a natural. But joining the team
sets off a chain of events in her small Oregon town-and within her family-that
she never could have predicted.

Inspired by what they see as Mara’s political statement, four other girls join
the team. Now Mara’s lumped in as one of the girls-one of the girls who can’t
throw, can’t kick, and doesn’t know a fullback from a linebacker. Complicating
matters is the fact that Valentina, Mara’s crush, is one of the new players, as
is Carly, Mara’s nemesis-the girl Mara fought with when she was kicked off the
basketball team. What results is a coming-of-age story that is at once
tear-jerking and funny, thought-provoking and real, as Mara’s preconceived
notions about gender, sports, sexuality, and friendship are turned upside down.

Britta Lundin’s sophomore novel will give readers all the feels, and make them
stand up and cheer.

Events

Tuesday, August 3
Like Other Girls
🎉 Launch Signing
Skylight Books
7-8:30pm
more
details

Saturday, August 7
Like Other Girls 🎉Virtual Event
Britta Lundin in conversation with Carly Usdin (filmmaker, author The Avant
Guards)
noon PT/3pm ET
register
here to get the link

 

My Review:
4/5 stars
This book was all of the contemporary goodness I needed! Teen angst, drama… And Mara was so inspiring! Her struggle to keep her sexuality to herself while also navigating what it’s like to *be her* really got to me, I had those same feelings and continue to have them! Overall, I really loved this book.

 

About Britta Lundin:

Britta Lundin is a TV writer and author.

She’s written for shows such as Riverdale, Betty,
and The Big Leap and is the author of the young adult novels Like
Other Girls (out August 2021) and Ship It.

Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she lives with her
wife, kid, and dog in Los Angeles.

 

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Goodreads | Amazon

 

Giveaway Details:

3 winners
will receive a finished copy of LIKE OTHER GIRLS, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

8/1/2021	Tween 2 Teen Book Reviews	Review
8/2/2021	BookHounds YA	Excerpt
8/3/2021	Rajiv’s Reviews	Review
8/4/2021	Kait Plus Books	Excerpt
8/5/2021	Lifestyle of Me	Review
8/6/2021	onemused	Review
8/7/2021	booksaremagictoo	Review

Week Two:

8/8/2021	EveryonesLibrarian	Review
8/9/2021	@curlygrannylovestoread	Review
8/10/2021	BRITTREADSALATTEBOOKS	IG Post
8/11/2021	A Bookish Dream	Review
8/12/2021	Nonbinary Knight Reads	Review
8/13/2021	Unconventional Quirky Bibliophile	Review
8/14/2021	Fyrekatz Blog	Review

Week Three:

8/15/2021	@coffeebooksandmascara	Review
8/16/2021	Midnightbooklover	IG Post
8/17/2021	A Gingerly Review	Excerpt/IG post
8/18/2021	The Bookwyrm’s Den	Review
8/19/2021	@drewsim12	Review
8/20/2021	Adrianna.reads	Review
8/21/2021	Mallory Books	Review

Week Four:

8/22/2021	GivernyReads	Review
8/23/2021	popthebutterfly	Review
8/24/2021	@pagesofyellow	Review
8/25/2021	My Fictional Oasis	Review
8/26/2021	Perusewithcoffee	Review
8/27/2021	The Phantom Paragrapher	Review
8/28/2021	Eli to the nth	Review

Week Five:

8/29/2021	@fictitious.fox	Review
8/30/2021	Bibliosini	Review
8/31/2021	Two Points of Interest	Review