Book 3 - Heeby Jeebies Galore

Title: The Girls

Author: Emma Cline

Genre: history-inspired coming-of-age fiction

#spellbinding

Whooooooaaaaaaaaaa, what a mother-effin TRIP.

Cline's writing traps the reader in Evie's story, winding a subtle and intoxicating tale of a young girl becoming enthralled in a culty commune, and narrowly avoiding an event that shatters the lives of those around her.

I was HOOKED the entire time. Cline somehow writes with what feels like an underlying nature of rot - she describes beauty and travesty in the same breathe, lulling the reader while also inspiring a sense of panic, of terror, of unease. It's amazing.

The story itself is a strange one, and Cline does an excellent job of depicting the surrender to madness that is joining a cult. By the end, I can 100% understand how the titular girls get where they do, and even get the kind of perverted FOMO the protagonist feels at escaping the final heinous act.

HEEBY JEEBIES GALORE.

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