{"id":938,"date":"2016-06-07T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2016-06-01T23:37:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T22:37:06","slug":"new-books-the-girls-by-emma-cline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"New Books! The Girls by Emma Cline"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s been such a buzz around Emma Cline’s first novel The Girls<\/a>\"\",\u00c2\u00a0that when I started to read it I wondered if it would be disappointing. It’s worth all the fanfare. Set in the late 1960’s, fourteen-year-old Evie is bored with her life and becomes fascinated by Suzanne\u00c2\u00a0who is a member of a Manson Family type cult. The story flips between Evie as an adult and teenage Evie and I was struck by Cline’s ability to tap into exactly what it means to be a girl. The self conciousness, the willingness to please, the power that a crush can have over you. It’s all here and in unflinching detail. It was uncomfortable to remember those times through Evie and other characters.<\/p>\n

In some ways I wondered if it should have been called The Girl because Suzanne\u00c2\u00a0casts such a long shadow.\u00c2\u00a0The Girls<\/a>\"\"\u00c2\u00a0is very dark and not an\u00c2\u00a0easy summer time read but it is an exceptionally well written book. I can’t wait to see what Emma Cline writes next.<\/p>\n

Emma Cline wrote this book in a tiny writers shed. You can check it out\u00c2\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

The Girls is published in the UK on June 16th.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I received a digital galley of The Girls\"\" in return for an honest review.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been such a buzz around Emma Cline’s first novel The Girls,\u00c2\u00a0that when I started to read it I wondered if it would be disappointing. It’s worth all the fanfare. Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,171,474,475,473],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book-review","tag-books-2","tag-emma-cline","tag-emma-cline-writing-shed","tag-the-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}