Just finished it.
Starts out strong. Her prose in the early pages is remarkable. She must have worked really hard on those pages, and to great effect. At a certain point, however, the story takes center stage, her sentences just naturally become more normalized, and now it's a book like any other. A somehwat interesting but, for me, ultimately forgettable book with a fair number of flaws.
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Kedzie
Minor correction. It is "The Girls" by Emma, not Ellen, Cline.
I agree that it starts out strong and that her prose is remarkable. But it did not fizzle out for me. I thought that she held the remarkable quality of her words throughout - surprising me often, in fact, with such an altitude of word craft that made me feel at once, both hopeful for the beauty of the craft, and hopeless in the contrast of my own capability to it.
Personally, for me, this was one of the best books I've ever read. Fair review, but I cannot personally agree. I was held by it - through and through. Loved it.