Femme is a hi/lo book for struggling readers that I received for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

It's about a girl named Sofie who isn't doing very well in school. She'd rather spend time on the internet, play Candy Crush and hang out with her boyfriend, Paul. When she's paired with smart over-achiever (and out lesbian) Clea she finally starts applying herself and things change for her.

I feel like the book tries to tackle a lot of subjects in a short amount of pages and just kind of touching on each of them, which has been my issue with all of the Lorimer books that I've received. Some of the issues that are talked about in this book are expectations (personal, parental and societal), labels (from society and oneself), bullying/cyberbullying, friendships, coming out, relationships and graduating. The bullying here is basically done and over with once they find out who did it. It's not quite realistic.

I do like how the relationship between Sofie and Clea develops. I think that part of the book was well done and realistic.