Book Review: The Girls by Emma Cline
This post contains affiliate links, which means that we’ll earn a small commission if you make a purchase through these links. “We all want to be seen.” 📚 It’s 1969, and young Evie Boyd finds herself at the start of another North California summer, the last before everything changes and she’s shipped off to boarding school. Bored and isolated, Evie is entranced by some girls she sees at the local park. Drawn in by their carefree attitude and lack of inhibition, she soon joins their circle, becomes inseparable from older, enthralling Suzanne, and is ingratiated into a strange and captivating cult overseen by a mesmerizing leader. The group occupies a sprawling, dilapidated ranch deep in the hills, living a squalid, self-governed existence — fascinating, appealing, and exciting to Evie, who longs for love, acceptance, and belonging. And as she spends more time with her new friends and less at home, Evie begins to change both inside and out, inching ever closer to a dangerous precipice
