Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for the opportunity to read this amazing book.
Wow - hard to believe this is a debut author. The writing is just amazing - every sentence makes you really feel as if you are in Evie's world.
Evie is a 14-year-old whose parents are divorced and too busy with rewriting their own lives to worry much about Evie's. A random glimpse of a group of girls at a park leads to an obsession with one of the girls - Suzanne. When Evie runs into Suzanne again, Suzanne takes her back to the ranch - a loose portrayal of Charles Manson's commune. At the ranch, Evie begins to feel that she finally belongs and all her insecurities begin to fade.
Emma Cline truly gets into the mind and life of a 14-year-old girl. The friend drama, the boy drama, the next beauty product that will transform a girl's life - all of the vulnerability feels very familiar. Yet there is that damage and yearning in Evie that draws her into a cult - and of course the cult exploits all that. This book is mostly based in 1969 but shifts to a present-day Evie to show us the aftereffects.
Truly a masterfully-written book. A scary coming-of-age story but definitely not a young adult read. I raced through this one.
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