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Well written prose AND a beautiful cover? Should I be suspicious?

Do the Pretties look like Bratz dolls? Shiver.

Daphne's a bit of a asshole, but I expected that. She was born in the wrong era.

This would be a great read aloud before bedtime book.

I began listening to the audio version, and it was so compelling, and wonderfully gothic, I decided to read it instead.

This novel could easily be a YA/Adult literature crossover. The narrator is young, but mature beyond her years in many ways. I'm loving the 1950's setting, New York showgirl lifestyle, thugs and manipulative nightclub creeps, the wartime romance (which is decidedly not sentimental), and the Red Scare elements. As an aside: I love the girl's hair on the cover.

If time travel is made possible, remind me to stay the hell out of Kansas in the late 1960's.

It's still pretty lame. So far, we've a thinly veiled B. Spears, and her break-up with J. Timberlake, along with a lot of name dropping - it's Zooey, not Zoe, ladies. I'm embarrassed to be reading it. Don't tell! :)

I just wanted a bubblegum book to read, but this is soooooo poorly written; the main character is an idiot when it comes to men, kind of a bitch, and the prose is clunky to the point of distraction. Twenty more pages, and if it doesn't get better - I'm out.

Maybe I'm being a bit over critical, due to the high literary praise this received. Girlchild will feel familiar to anyone whose read about trailer parks, poverty, social services, bad parenting, and abuse (which is annoyingly skirted around - not that I want details, but it doesn't make sense to avoid saying what you mean in a first person narrative of this nature).

I'm being a bit over critical, due to the high literary praise this received. Girlchild will feel familiar to anyone whose read about trailer parks, poverty, social services, bad parenting, and abuse (which is annoyingly skirted around - not that I want details, but it doesn't make sense to avoid saying what you mean in a first person narrative of this nature).

Yawn. Seventy pages in: bored out of my skull & I don't care about the three characters I've met so far.

The cute continues! :)

This book is a little slow going. It's about friendship, but what's the plot?

Good, but not as addictively readable as her first novel.

Adorable & cheeky.

Excellent. Critics didn't "get" Rebecca; it was compared to Jane Eyre, and no one understood she was writing (once again) about the balance of power between women and men (women getting the shit end of the stick). Thank goodness it was popular.This is a great biography.