A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert

A Rosalind Review:
A Girl Like Her by @TaliaHibbert
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Ratings (out of 5)
Chemistry: 💥💥💥💥
Heat: 🔥🔥🔥
Humor: 😂😂😂
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Some things you may not know about me: I can’t wear clothes with “big seams.” I don’t process auditory information or facial expressions all that well and get exhausted by social interaction very easily. I struggle with many executive functions. I’m a woman on the autism spectrum. And, importantly, over the weekend I read Talia Hibbert’s fantastic A Girl Like Her, the first romance novel I’ve ever read about a woman on the spectrum. And I almost cried. A lot.
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Ruth Kabbah is an introverted comic book nerd and town pariah (for somewhat mysterious reasons) and she DEFINITELY is not interested in the Captain America-lookalike who just moved in next door. She definitely doesn’t need his gorgeous eyes looking all tempting while he offers to bring her some food (she doesn’t really cook. At all) or his sculpted muscles being all bulge-y while he offers to help her out or his voice being all sexy when he mentions how he used to be a comic fan. Yeah… she doesn’t need that. Except she does. A lot.
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Ruth is on the spectrum. But that doesn’t mean that, for all of her complaining and glowering and prickliness, she doesn’t want some companionship from someone who might actually deserve her. And it certainly doesn’t mean she never has needs that involve sexy naked times. Ruth is a real person. A real grown up woman with real feelings and desires and fears and needs. She’s not a cartoon. And Evan (the Cap doppelgänger) never treats her like one. To him, Ruth is interesting, spirited, intelligent, and crazy sexy.
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A Girl Like Her is a steamy, charming, witty contemporary romance and I’m SO glad it came across my Instagram feed.I’ll def be reading the rest of the Ravenswood series and, note to Ms. Hibbert, can we PLEASE get a Patience story?
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Hibbert’s forthcoming romance, Get A Life Chloe Brown, is about a woman with chronic illness (something I also struggle with and have written about because yes, people who are chronically ill also still want to and DO have sex) and I CANNOT WAIT.


Kiss & Tell: Hibbert’s romance is classified as “sexy” and AGLH definitely delivers. Kissing, groping, hand play, oral and P+V sex are all here and it’s all well-handled and very steamy.

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Fair Warning: One character experienced emotional/physical abuse from an intimate partner in the past and they talk about it in the present. No flashbacks.