Comments on: The Girls https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-girls/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 09 Jul 2017 17:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: susan https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-girls/#comment-258224 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:22:02 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6644#comment-258224 I just finished this novel which I thought was done very well. It was creepy for sure. I couldn’t believe the author is so young — she didn’t seem like a first-time author. Your review is very good. I’m still thinking things over about it — there were times during the book when I thought : do I really want to spend time with these people? do I really want to read about the Manson girls? But I think Evie’s age and innocence and loneliness got me a bit and I felt for her. A person could do one thing stupid as a teen: and ruin their life.

]]> By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-girls/#comment-257670 Fri, 01 Jul 2016 16:06:54 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6644#comment-257670 In reply to Lisa.

Yes! Reading those passages made me want to take a shower. You could feel the dirt and the heat. Ugh.

]]> By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-girls/#comment-257668 Fri, 01 Jul 2016 16:06:07 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6644#comment-257668 In reply to Kathy @ Kathy Reads Fiction.

Somehow I never knew about any of it until I was older and then I was obsessed. Probably because in those days the news was so limited and isolated. Now it would be a horror circus.

]]> By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-girls/#comment-257510 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:40:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6644#comment-257510 In reply to Monika @ Lovely Bookshelf.

Yes! Thankfully, the murders are not the focus of the book.

]]> By: Monika @ Lovely Bookshelf https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-girls/#comment-257504 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:13:40 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6644#comment-257504 Whoa, I didn’t realize this book was modeled after the Manson girls!

]]> By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-girls/#comment-257458 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 23:59:23 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6644#comment-257458 In reply to Lisa.

Yes. She sold it completely- so thoroughly inside Evie’s head.

]]> By: Lisa https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-girls/#comment-257442 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:17:56 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6644#comment-257442 Truly, Cline did make you understand why Evie would be willing to wear cast off clothes, scrounge for food, and sleep in “beds” that were inhabited by bugs. Definitely an impressive feat.

]]> By: Kathy @ Kathy Reads Fiction https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-girls/#comment-257436 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 14:15:16 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6644#comment-257436 I’m amazed at how Cline was able to recreate the era with her age, as well. I was nine years old at the time and remember vaguely all of the goings on in the news surrounding Manson, and I’m so glad that Cline chose to take this novel in the direct of Evie. This is one of my favorites this year.

]]> By: KatieMcD @ Bookish Tendencies https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-girls/#comment-257429 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:51:13 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6644#comment-257429 Oh you put into beautiful words many of the things I felt while reading this as well! I really loved it too, and already want to read it again.

]]> By: Kate @ booksaremyfavouriteandbest https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-girls/#comment-257415 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 07:37:35 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6644#comment-257415 I’m half an hour off finishing this book and have loved it – she has captured the teenage voice exceptionally well.

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