All Girls : A Novel (Hardcover)

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2.5/3 stars but will generously raise to 3. Pub Date 2/16/21. Debut novel for this author. Written beautifully, the author totally sets up the scene vividly. Unfortunately, for me, this was a total miss on the rest of the story. Each chapter is told in a different voice of a prep girl. Backgroun...

from brangwinn

In Emily Layden's debut novel which is set in a prestigious all-girls American boarding school there are accusations of age-old sexual abuse by a faculty member. The more I read about private boarding schools the more I am glad I did not go to one. It is a toxic culture of teenage girls. The mult...

from Hccpsk

It is not lost on me that although I often gravitate towards books about boarding school, I rarely enjoy them. Of course, it must be said that I also work at a boarding school, so I understand all of the nuances, strange traditions, and overall bizarreness of the bubble-world these schools inhabi...

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Yes, my rating for this book is pretty low but I did get a few worthwhile things from the story. The main issue I had is there were too many characters and with each chapter featuring a new POV, it was too much. The story got lost with so many different voices. Atwater is an all girls boarding sc...

from alanna1122

So - even though the last book I read was set in an all girls boarding school and was very disappointing - somehow -- due to the strange timing of library holds I ended up reading this - a second book in a row - set in an all girls boarding school. But I am happy to say - I really really liked ...