A review by buttercupita
The Girls by Emma Cline

3.0

A review I read said Cline was a better writer than storyteller -- that struck me as on target. The descriptions were really rich, but the story moved sooo slowly that sometimes it was hard to keep going and I often lost track of the characters as many of them were not fully realized. The strongest part of the book for me was the way she painted the mindset of a 14 year old girl in late 1960's California. Adrift in the confusion of early adolescence, Evie wanders into the arms of a Manson like cult. Watching her come into awareness (though this is mostly done through flashbacks of the adult Evie narrator) is the most interesting part of the story.