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Title: Girls on Fire
Author: Robin Wasserman
Narrator: Vanessa Labrie, Lauren Saunders
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-05-16
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
This is not a cautionary tale about too much - or the wrong kind of - f**king. This is not a story of bad things happening to bad girls. I say this because I know you, Dex, and I know how you think. I'm going to tell you a story, and this time it will be the truth.
Hannah Dexter is a nobody, ridiculed at school by golden girl Nikki Drummond and bored at home. But in their junior year of high school, Nikki's boyfriend walks into the woods and shoots himself.
In the wake of the suicide, Hannah finds herself befriending new girl Lacey, and soon the pair are inseparable, bonded by their shared hatred of Nikki. Lacey transforms good girl Hannah into Dex, a Doc Marten and Kurt Cobain fan who is up for any challenge Lacey throws at her.
The two girls bring their combined wills to bear on the community in which they live; unconcerned by the mounting discomfort that their lust for chaos and rebellion causes the inhabitants of their parochial small town, they think they are invulnerable. But Lacey has a secret about life before her better half, and it's a secret that will change everything....
Starting - and ending - with tragedy, Girls on Fire stands alongside The Virgin Suicides in its brilliant portrayal of female adolescence but with a power and assurance all its own.
Critic Reviews:
"Like lightning in a bottle, Robin Wasserman's Girls on Fire captures girlhood friendship in all its shattering intensity. Seldom do you find a novel that so transports you to the dark, febrile terrain of adolescence, when intimacy and connection can turn on a dime to something far more dangerous. A captivating, terrifying novel, and one you won't forget." (Megan Abbott)
"Girls on Fire is a dark, propulsive fever-dream of youth and friendship - a piercing vision of what it means to mistake yourself for who you are in someone else's eyes. I wanted to grab these girls and shake them, sing them lullabies, stop them - but all I could do was keep reading them, relentlessly enthralled by the heat-seeking missile of Robin Wasserman's fearless imagination." (Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams)
Members Reviews:
More teenage wasteland than thriller
It's not that it wasn't competently written--clearly this author is skilled. But the book was barely finishable for me. It felt like it didn't know what it wanted to be: a book about teenage girls in high school, but not in the YA category so it could actually reflect modern adolescence (ie. sex and drugs), or was it a thriller? It wasn't that the parts weren't competently done, it's just that they didn't mesh well. The teenage wasteland parts (as I call the parts that were mostly about the friendship between girls) was well done, though I didn't expect that was what I was reading, and frankly, if that was the book, it could have been half this length.
If it's a thriller, it was very much NOT thrilling, and needed way more hints that it was going that way early on--by the time we got to the real plot of what happened to the guy who died in the beginning of the book, I'd forgotten that was what the book was about, and then the book careened into implausible action after implausible action.
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Title: Girls on Fire
Author: Robin Wasserman
Narrator: Vanessa Labrie, Lauren Saunders
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-05-16
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
This is not a cautionary tale about too much - or the wrong kind of - f**king. This is not a story of bad things happening to bad girls. I say this because I know you, Dex, and I know how you think. I'm going to tell you a story, and this time it will be the truth.
Hannah Dexter is a nobody, ridiculed at school by golden girl Nikki Drummond and bored at home. But in their junior year of high school, Nikki's boyfriend walks into the woods and shoots himself.
In the wake of the suicide, Hannah finds herself befriending new girl Lacey, and soon the pair are inseparable, bonded by their shared hatred of Nikki. Lacey transforms good girl Hannah into Dex, a Doc Marten and Kurt Cobain fan who is up for any challenge Lacey throws at her.
The two girls bring their combined wills to bear on the community in which they live; unconcerned by the mounting discomfort that their lust for chaos and rebellion causes the inhabitants of their parochial small town, they think they are invulnerable. But Lacey has a secret about life before her better half, and it's a secret that will change everything....
Starting - and ending - with tragedy, Girls on Fire stands alongside The Virgin Suicides in its brilliant portrayal of female adolescence but with a power and assurance all its own.
Critic Reviews:
"Like lightning in a bottle, Robin Wasserman's Girls on Fire captures girlhood friendship in all its shattering intensity. Seldom do you find a novel that so transports you to the dark, febrile terrain of adolescence, when intimacy and connection can turn on a dime to something far more dangerous. A captivating, terrifying novel, and one you won't forget." (Megan Abbott)
"Girls on Fire is a dark, propulsive fever-dream of youth and friendship - a piercing vision of what it means to mistake yourself for who you are in someone else's eyes. I wanted to grab these girls and shake them, sing them lullabies, stop them - but all I could do was keep reading them, relentlessly enthralled by the heat-seeking missile of Robin Wasserman's fearless imagination." (Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams)
Members Reviews:
More teenage wasteland than thriller
It's not that it wasn't competently written--clearly this author is skilled. But the book was barely finishable for me. It felt like it didn't know what it wanted to be: a book about teenage girls in high school, but not in the YA category so it could actually reflect modern adolescence (ie. sex and drugs), or was it a thriller? It wasn't that the parts weren't competently done, it's just that they didn't mesh well. The teenage wasteland parts (as I call the parts that were mostly about the friendship between girls) was well done, though I didn't expect that was what I was reading, and frankly, if that was the book, it could have been half this length.
If it's a thriller, it was very much NOT thrilling, and needed way more hints that it was going that way early on--by the time we got to the real plot of what happened to the guy who died in the beginning of the book, I'd forgotten that was what the book was about, and then the book careened into implausible action after implausible action.