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A review by kennzieken
The Girls by Emma Cline
2.0
**2.5/5 stars rounded up**
I’m a sucker for a good book about a cult, so when I read the synopsis, I was extremely intrigued.
In the beginning when our main girl Evie was first starting to get involved in the group, I was very invested and wanted to see what she would do.
However, I think once she did get into the cult, it just went steadily downhill for me.
The only interesting person of the girls of the cult was Suzanne for me, the rest of the girls were annoying or filler people. The cult leader Russell was okay; for me he mostly fulfilled the creep factor of the cult. And the other side characters were meh. Evie’s mother and father were both boring and deadbeats. Evie love interest in the beginning of the story and her “best friend” really had no purpose.
The “climax” of the book was in my opinion downright stupid....The members of the cult killed four people for Russell basically because he didn’t get a record deal!! SERIOUSLY??!!??
And Evie wasn’t even involved!! So what was the point!
How I would have liked the story to end would be for both Evie and Suzanne to come to her senses and leave, and then they could live a happy safe carefree life together as a couple.
Overall, I think if this book would have just jumped straight into the cult and sped through how Evie got involved, and then she got a more entertaining and climactic escape with Suzanne and then they’d live happy ever after as a wonderful couple would have been more satisfying than how it actually ended.
I’m a sucker for a good book about a cult, so when I read the synopsis, I was extremely intrigued.
In the beginning when our main girl Evie was first starting to get involved in the group, I was very invested and wanted to see what she would do.
However, I think once she did get into the cult, it just went steadily downhill for me.
The only interesting person of the girls of the cult was Suzanne for me, the rest of the girls were annoying or filler people. The cult leader Russell was okay; for me he mostly fulfilled the creep factor of the cult. And the other side characters were meh. Evie’s mother and father were both boring and deadbeats. Evie love interest in the beginning of the story and her “best friend” really had no purpose.
The “climax” of the book was in my opinion downright stupid....The members of the cult killed four people for Russell basically because he didn’t get a record deal!! SERIOUSLY??!!??
And Evie wasn’t even involved!! So what was the point!
How I would have liked the story to end would be for both Evie and Suzanne to come to her senses and leave, and then they could live a happy safe carefree life together as a couple.
Overall, I think if this book would have just jumped straight into the cult and sped through how Evie got involved, and then she got a more entertaining and climactic escape with Suzanne and then they’d live happy ever after as a wonderful couple would have been more satisfying than how it actually ended.