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Cover Face-Off: IF I WAS YOUR GIRL by Meredith Russo

Come tell us which cover edition you prefer for IF I WAS YOUR GIRL by Meredith Russo.

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Jamie Canaves

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Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer–in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can definitely talk books with her on Litsy and Goodreads. Depending on social media’s stability maybe also Twitter and Bluesky.

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It’s time to pit cover against cover again. This time we have Meredith Russo’s If I Was Your Girl, a book many Rioters loved. It’s hard not to fall in love with the main character Amanda who moves in with her father and starts a new school after her previous school becomes unsafe. It’s a wonderful, important, coming-of-age novel and I have never rooted harder for a character.

The original cover (hardback) is a photograph of model Kira Conley who has managed to perfectly capture the vulnerability lodged inside teen girls. More importantly it’s a cover with a transgender woman, on a book written by a transgender woman, with a transgender girl main character.

If I Was Your Girl Meredith Russo

The upcoming paperback has swapped the photograph of a real girl and gone with a Venn diagram illustration instead.

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo paperback cover

So we want to know which do you prefer?

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