Book Mini-Review — The Girls by Emma Cline

‘Seriously. Who is the author kidding? This book is about the Manson murders.’

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Title: The Girls

Author: Emma Cline

Genre: Adult Fiction*, Historical Fiction*, Crime*, LGBTQ+ (M/F, F/F)*✢

*(ish — it’s a really difficult book to define tbh!)
✢ The LGBTQ+ and F/F rep isn’t great (neither is a lot of the M/F tbh,) see main review.

Warning: this post discusses and refers to serious topics such as rape and child abuse. Please be careful my nerdlets.

Verdict:

Evie Boyd falls in with (*coughs* The Manson Family *coughs*) a cult that is definitely NOT The Manson Family. *shifty glances.*

Seriously. Who is the author kidding? This book is about the Manson murders.

Yes, Cline’s changed the names, and a couple of the fine details, but that’s it.

If you have ‘ The Girls’ in a murderous Californian cult, who live in a ranch in the Summer of ’69, and follow their charismatic hippie-ish leader, then we’re talking about The Manson…