Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Those Girls/Lauren Saft/330 pgs.

Debut novelist Lauren Saft takes the reader through junior year of high school for three friends:Alexandra Holbrook, Veronica Collins, and Mollie Finn. Alex and Mollie have been friends since grade school, with Veronica becoming part of the group when she moved into town in fifth grade. Each chapter is written in one of the girls' voices. The book consists of drinking, some drugs, sex, partying--and trying to establish one's own identity. It's part "Clueless" and part "Mean Girls"--not a very good read. I personally hope it's not an accurate portrayal of today's 16 or 17 year-old girls--or that young adults reading this book feel that there is something wrong with them if they aren't like one of these characters.

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