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Las chicas by Emma Cline

jladuke's review against another edition

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3.0

Is this book loosely based on the Manson girls...yes it is.

What I liked about it was the way she gave the main character a voice explaining how teenage girls would be so susceptible to manipulation and the insecurities plaguing that demographic. She isn't excusing the perpetrators of the murders, but she is providing more of a backdrop of how someone could get to the point of committing inexcusable crimes.

shelcheck's review against another edition

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4.0

I enjoyed the book and its take on a Manson-esque cult. However, while I liked the story, I found that the book didn't stay with me after I had read it, the way most books do.

jjlynne's review against another edition

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2.0

DNF @ 20%. As many other reviewers noted, this book is incredibly overwritten, and the plot & characters surprisingly dull. I am a sucker for all things 60’s and 70’s, and my odd fascination with cults made this sound like a surefire hit for me, but it was so unimpressive that I’m not going to waste any more time on it.

deannerz's review against another edition

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medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? No

3.0

jmrogers927's review against another edition

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4.0

Very interesting - very strange - it kept my attention and was an easy read

ednahaddox's review against another edition

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4.0

I enjoyed it. I stayed interested but wasn't necessarily
pulled in. I was left wanting a tad more character
development but thought it had an interesting angle
on the formative years of adolescence and the dance of
love and what it makes us do (or almost do) as well as
how it impacts our psyche.

thebeautyofliterature's review against another edition

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4.0

This book is one heck of a self reflecting mirror for any girls and women reading it. I didn't expect it to delve in quite as deep into the female psyche as it did, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was there was more of an ending where the characters found more resolution, but overall, it's an amazing story.

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ab_kenn's review against another edition

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3.0

This book reminded me of various LDR songs: Diet Mountain Dew, This Is What Makes Us Girls, Freak, Ride, Gods and Monsters.
Even the tamber of her prose sounds like the intro monologue to the Ride music video

amiewhittemore's review against another edition

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4.0

Cline has a hearty lexicon, a taste for toothy verbs, for precise, bold diction. I loved this exploration of girlhood and womanhood, and how one's girlhood shapes one's womanhood, how one might live under the shadows of one what did--or didn't do--in one's youth a long while. How some of those tastes, in the case of our narrator, for something feral as much as something safe, linger. Definitely interested in reading more of Cline's work.

grumpalaurus's review against another edition

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2.0

While I loved the writing style of this author, the story was only so-so. The narrator is always kept on the peripheral of everyone's life, and that's how you come away feeling as the reader, too. You're just on the outside looking in. If that was the intent, it was achieved, but I was hoping for something more immersive.