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    Those Girls

    Written by Lauren Saft

    Narrated by Analysa Gregory, Casey Holloway and Amy Tallmadge

    2.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Some girls will always have your back, and some girls can't help but stab you in it.

    Junior year, the suburbs of Philadelphia. Alex, Mollie and Veronica are those girls: They're the best of friends and the party girls of the school. But how well does everybody know them-and really, how well do they know one another? Alex is secretly in love with the boy next door and has joined a band-without telling anyone. Mollie suffers from a popular (and possibly sociopathic) boyfriend and a serious mean streak. And Veronica just wants to be loved-literally, figuratively, physically...she's not particular. Will this be the year that bonds them forever or tears them apart for good?

    In a debut novel that is raw, honest, hilarious, and thought-provoking, Lauren Saft masterfully conveys what goes on in the mind of a teenage girl and how often even the closest of friends walk the thin line between love and hate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateJun 9, 2015
    ISBN9781478903970
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    • 3/5
      Yikes! One of "those girls" starts off taking Plan B, and obviously not for the first time. This book is full of so much casual sex, drug use, and profanity that this for me qualifies as YA only in the sense that they're all underage.

      There's also a ton of slut-shaming and generally unhealthy attitudes toward seed and sexuality that never really get resolved. There are no consequences for the rapey guy. Scratch that: there are really no consequences for anyone, regardless of how badly they behave.

      Yet against all my better judgment I did grow to care about the characters to a certain extent. I kindof wish I didn't, so I could write this off as garbage, but it's a little more complicated than that.

      Maybe this is like the movie Thirteen and the shock value is kindof the point?


      Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
    • 4/5
      I'm not usually a contemporary fiction reader, but I decided to read this one and was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

      (more to come)
    • 1/5
      After reading this and other YA books based on female teen drama, I'm becoming more appreciative of the lack of friends I had in high school (specifically girlfriends). All of the drama would have exhausted me to the point of comatose.

      I just didn't get the point of this book. I thought this book would show more character development and be similar to a coming of age tale, but it mainly discusses the immorality of teenagers with minimal supervision and lack of long term goals.

      The girls are cunning, deceitful, cheaters who treat and talk to their friends in ways I would not even talk to people I didn't like. Mollie and Veronica were just horrible people and while I can appreciate the unscrupulous and shameless character, I didn't see the need for there to be two of them.

      I kept waiting for Alex to fully step away from it all and mature, but ultimately she didn't progress much. She seemed so smart and talented (she's in calculus and joins a band!) but little focus is on that. I did enjoy seeing her stepping out of her comfort zone and committing to the band though.

      There are parts that disturbed me roofie-ing your "friend" and then brushing over the fact that a teacher was probably molesting her!? and I felt them unnecessary, or at least they could have been handled differently.

      In the end, I couldn't handle the demeaning, demoralizing way everyone treated each other nor the total lack of morals presented in this book.
    • 4/5
      I can't say that I really enjoyed this but I did find it compelling and worthy. It made me uncomfortable and the characters put me off fairly early on but I usually take that to mean that I need to stay and continue because for whatever reasons I'm feeling that way, there's likely a good reason the author's gone down this path and I want to know what that is. Saft definitely had a way of making her characters ones that truly had no knowledge of their personal self worth but also had an over-inflated sense of self and I found that to be rather well done. To be able to constantly debase oneself yet still be piqued one doesn't command respect and awe from others is a feat to be sure and that shone through in Mollie, Alex and Veronica in varying degrees. I found very little redeeming in any of them by book's end, with the slight exception of Veronica. I found it sad and also true that the boys the girls chased and ultimately treated each other badly over were not only not worth it but also loomed so large in the girls minds that the girls themselves were totally eclipsed in their own minds. They were almost incapable of seeing anything outside of the prism of whatever boy they had their sights trained on. I cheered when they had glimmers of that realisation no matter how fleeting.

      I think this is supposed to be a YA book but I can also see how it could be simply Contemporary featuring teens. It's a blistering look in and I definitely feel that the author took the bold way as there aren't real lessons learnt & hard consequences for the behaviors engaged in. I found that refreshing because sometimes, life is just like that and the tidy bow at the end isn't that people became benevolent and kind, they just kept on going and those events are simply in the past. That felt true & I applaud Saft on that one. Appalling, disturbing, engaging and thoroughly readable, Those Girls was time well spent but I was glad when it was over. I definitely will look for more books in the future from this author.

      I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
    • 3/5
      I have mixed feeling about this book. As a mom of teens, I couldn't believe the way these girls acted. Are all teens as slutty and obnoxious as these? I don't think so. Maybe the combination of too much money and absent parents contribute to their actions, but seriously? I think kids that act like this would be in the minority at our local high school.

      One big problem with the book is there is really no person to root for. All of the main characters act badly, some more than others. The only thing I cared about even slightly was Alex and Drew's relationship. I hoped they could start telling each other the truth and become a couple. But honesty is in short supply with these girls.

      The book had its interesting moments, but it is not something I would want my kids to read.