A Girl Like You: Book Review and Giveaway

Review at a Glance

• Title: A Girl Like You
• My Rating: 3.75
• Genre: Mystery
• Format: audiobook*
• Publication Date: November 14, 2017
• Author: Michelle Cox

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Book Blurb

Henrietta von Harmon works as a 26 girl at a corner bar on Chicago’s northwest side. It’s 1935, but things still aren’t looking up since the big crash and her father’s subsequent suicide, leaving Henrietta to care for her antagonistic mother and younger siblings. Henrietta is eventually persuaded to take a job as a taxi dancer at a local dance hall – and just when she’s beginning to enjoy herself, the floor matron turns up dead.

When aloof Inspector Clive Howard appears on the scene, Henrietta agrees to go undercover for him and is plunged into Chicago’s grittier underworld. Meanwhile, she’s still busy playing mother hen to her younger siblings, as well as to pesky neighborhood boy Stanley, who believes himself in love with her and keeps popping up in the most unlikely places, determined to keep Henrietta safe even from the Inspector, if need be. Despite his efforts, however, and his penchant for messing up the Inspector’s investigation, the lovely Henrietta and the impenetrable Inspector find themselves drawn to each other in most unsuitable ways.

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My Thoughts

As a quick reminder, here is my rating structure:

• 1 star: Did not finish
• 2 Stars: Finished but do not recommend
• 3 Stars: Liked but could use some improvements
• 4 Stars: Loved this book!
• 5 Stars: Rare. The unput-down-able, binge read obsession.

A Girl Like You is almost a perfect 4 star book, meaning I loved it. There were a few minor things that I wish had gone differently, but overall i really, really liked this book and cannot wait to read the next installment.

As the seasons are beginning to change here, and I grab myself yet another PSL, I find myself craving cozy mysteries. I am such a mood reader and fall makes me want to curl up with a good whodunnit and get lost for a few hours. A Girl Like You is the perfect fit for my fall reading needs.

Not only is this a 1930’s detective novel, full of time period phrases and fantastical costumes, but the mysteries keep you guessing until the end. The setting left nothing to be desired, as Michelle Cox takes the reader on a journey through Chicago’s worst and best night spots.

I’m really hoping we get to see Henrietta grow into herself and become more comfortable as she matures away from her mother. I love the way that relationship is written as well because you can definitely tell our heroine is at the stage in her life where she still wants to please her mother but doesn’t have to anymore, and she’s trying to figure out what that looks like.

She’s not a girl, not yet a woman. Sorry, I had to. Anyway…

I wish the action had been more intense, as we spend a lot of time in the book investing in Henrietta as a character, but I also think this sets up the rest of the series remarkably. That is what has me most excited, because there are so many places the story can go from the ending on book one. The possibilities are endless.

Quick word on the narration as well as Jayne Entwistle does a brilliant job bringing these characters to life.

I already have book 2 ready to go and cannot wait.

Thanks so much to Helen Starbuck and iRead Book Tours for my copy of Legacy of Secrets in exchange for an honest review.