The Girls : A Novel (Hardcover)

from msbaba

"The Girls," by debut author Emma Cline, is a mesmerizing literary thriller about one young teenager girl's role in a fictional late-1960s Charles-Manson-like cult. The author does an outstanding job of capturing the vulnerability, flawed judgment, and over-confidence of youth. In particular, she...

from Pretear

The buzz around this book is well earned. The way Cline frames and describes the cringe worthy awkwardness of female adolescence is spot on. The most affecting aspect of this book is that it was so easy to identify with the main character's thoughts and motivations, which leads to the sad conclus...

from TobinElliott

I wanted to like this book more than I ultimately did. Unfortunately, I think there were two things working against this. The first was, while the writing was okay...not stunning, not terrible, just okay...it was so so so introspective, with Evie doing an awful lot of remembering, that it felt l...

from RidgewayGirl

I usually read books before any hype surrounding them builds to a ridiculous level or manage to ignore it. Both options are impossible when it came to Emma Cline's novel. Not only is it the culmination of the trend of books about girls wearing coats on trains, but hype surrounded this book long b...

from flourgirl49

Although loosely based on the Manson cult, this story mainly focuses on a disenchanted and very naive young girl, Evie, who is in and out of the cult as the mood suits her. As such, I found it more interesting than if it had been a complete rendering of the whole sordid Manson tale. It's an OK book.