The Girls

This book was so highly praised, I must have missed the point completely.

My experience consisted of 300+ pages of over-stylized prose with a narrator who is obsessed with her own thoughts and feelings. All of it headed towards an anticlimactic ending. This is all without any self-awareness or irony on the author's part.

The story and characters were so washed out and watery, yet given the subject matter, it should have been intense and colorful.