Review: The Girls

The Girls by Emma Cline
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was one of the "it" books this summer, but I didn't love it. It was memorable, and well-written, but it left me feeling - icky? Maybe that is a good thing, and a testament to the book's accomplishing its goal. The story follows a young woman whose rocky adolescence leads her to a cult. While she is taken under the wing of the cult's leader as well as a powerful ally of is, she somewhat remains on the outside, still connected to her family and comfortable way of life. She narrowly misses being involved in a violent crime, and that - the crime, as well as her lack of participation - defines the rest of her life.

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