Emma Cline perfectly encapsulates all the wantoness and hubris that can be a 14 year old girl in her book, THE GIRLS. I was not prepared for this trippy and disjointed journey that Cline takes the reader on with young Evie.
It all seems so harmless until we are catapulted from her simple childish musings to:
1. Evie developing her own snarky, self awareness as she becomes other than Motherher
2. Her idolization of the wrong older girl that breaks down what little defenses Evie has
3. Her fascination with the wrong community that cloaked itself in charisma and music
4. Her willingness to give herself to the wrong men (a cult leader) who ultimately sends her on the darkest of missions
It is a book you cannot put down once it ensnares you. Evie goes back and forth between the now and 1969 and you can still sense her vulnerability and need for approval. Perhaps that is what is the saddest of all.
Many thanks to Random House, NetGalley and Emma Cline for this advance copy in exhange for an honest and unbiased review.
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