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The Girls

by Emma Cline

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Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged -- a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence.… (more)
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    Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt (KatyBee)
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    A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine (shaunie)
    shaunie: Similar doom-laden atmosphere with something horrible about to happen in the summer heat - but whilst Cline's book is this year's must-read Vine's book is far more tense and exciting.
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    Machine by Susan Steinberg (susanbooks)
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    Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman (susanbooks)
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Lesson learned: I do not like historical fiction, and I do not like historical fiction that has been pasted over with new names and very slightly altered circumstances like a reskinned wattpad fanfiction ( )
  maddietherobot | Oct 21, 2023 |
Loved this book. Only able to put it down when I couldn't keep my eyes opened anymore. ( )
  everettroberts | Oct 20, 2023 |
3.5 stars actually. Weak ending I thought. ( )
  Maryjane75 | Sep 30, 2023 |
I'm not entirely sure how i felt about this book. I have recently listened to a podcast about manson and his family but this was somewhat intriguing to be taken inside the mind of a young girl who got sucked into this atmosphere and these beliefs. It certainly made me think. ( )
  RisqueGypsy | Sep 8, 2023 |
I couldn't have loved this more in the end. I found the initial chapters beautifully put together but just a touch too mannered, but then, once Evie comes into contact with the ranch, the book comes absolutely alive. It moves at this sinister, unstoppable lope and there is no description, word, or character that is spare to its purposes. Despite what reviewers and other readers say, for me it ends at precisely the right place. It's been ages since I read something I so wholeheartedly admired - I can't recommend it highly enough. ( )
  Helen.Callaghan | Aug 28, 2023 |
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The Girls works a well-tapped vein in literary fiction: the queasy exploration of how young women with crippled egos can become accessories to their own degradation. Joyce Carol Oates and Mary Gaitskill are masters of this theme. Cline’s contribution is a heady evocation of the boredom and isolation of adolescence in pre-internet suburbia, in houses deserted by their restless, doubt-stricken adult proprietors where “the air was candied with silence.” The novel is heavy with figurative language; Cline has a telling fondness for the word “humid.” Not all of this comes off effectively (Evie’s mom makes Chinese ribs that “had a glandular sheen, like a lacquer”), but most of it does (Evie, dazzled by her father’s girlfriend, thinks she has a life “like a TV show about summer.”)
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Emma Clineprimary authorall editionscalculated
Cosgrove, LizDesignersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
McClain, CadyNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mendelsund, PeterCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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I looked up because of the laughter, and kept looking because of the girls.
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The sun spiked through the trees, like always—the drowsy willows, the hot wind gusting over the picnic blankets—but the familiarity of the day was disturbed by the path the girls cut across the regular world. Sleek and thoughtless as sharks breaching the water.
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Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged -- a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence.

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