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Gosh his would be a great, divide the crowd book club book. Framed as a story of a missing girl as told by a chorus of her near peers and written as ‘we‘ alternating with stories from their future it‘s a haunting kind of a book. I loved the muggy Florida backdrop, the deeply intense early teen years portrayed with all their raw energy. I liked less the deeply disheartening future stories and the vague horror type vibe and the abrupt ending

Uhm, what? Makes zero sense and trying so so hard to be deep. I bailed only 20 pages before the end it was getting so intolerable. #brutes #bail #dnf

This was a good one. I am excited to talk about it with my book club. I love stories of girlhood, especially liked how it was told in “we”

A low pick. I had high hopes for this one and it started out strong, but some of the threads didn‘t carry through for me. I liked pieces of the story and I think Tate did a good job of capturing the agony of being a teenage girl in many ways.

A group of young girls grapple with the disappearance of the local preacher‘s daughter.

Lurking ✨ Loss of Innocence ✨ Blurry

For fans of The Diary of a Teenage Girl

This is between a pick and a so-so for me but I‘m going to be kind as it‘s #abookbyafirsttimeauthor #pop23.

Every review I read compared this to The Virgin Suicides and I can see why, with its chorus of young teenagers speaking in the plural first person. It has a real sense of place in steamy Florida, which I loved. However the individual more recent stories of the women didn‘t connect for me, and actually distracted from the underlying ⬇️

Not as seasonal read, but the first finish of my #WinterReadathon! 15 points

I‘m sure it must be me, not the book. While others have found the writing “poetic”, I found it an incoherent mess with little plot. The first person plural narration an was interesting technique, but the chapters on each of the group in later life served no purpose. There may be a decent short story here, but as a novel it really didn‘t work for me