3.5 stars 
 I quite enjoyed The Girls but, given the degree of hype surrounding it, I was expecting more. I found it a reasonably engaging coming-of-age story and felt that Cline did a good job of capturing a teenage girl's angst and desperation to be seen, to be noticed. However, for me it did drag at times and I wasn't sure what the adult Evie's perspective added to the telling. 
 I listened to the audio version, narrated by Cady McClain and thought her narration was pretty good.