Girls on Fire
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Cassandra Campbell
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Simone Lewis
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Allyson Ryan
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By:
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Robin Wasserman
About this listen
On Halloween 1991, a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, and disappears. Three days later he's found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand - a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved by growing rumors of Satanic worship in the region.
In the wake of this incident, bright but lonely Hannah Dexter is befriended by Lacey Champlain, a dark-eyed, Cobain-worshiping bad influence in lip gloss and Doc Martens. The charismatic, seductive Lacey forges a fast, intimate bond with the impressionable Dex, making her over in her own image and unleashing a fierce defiance that neither girl expected. But as Lacey gradually lures Dex away from her safe life into a feverish spiral of obsession, rebellion, and ever greater risk, an unwelcome figure appears on the horizon - and Lacey's secret history collides with Dex's worst nightmare.
By turns a shocking story of love and violence and an addictive portrait of the intoxication of female friendship set against the unsettled backdrop of a town gripped by moral panic, Girls on Fire is an unflinching and unforgettable snapshot of girlhood: girls lost and found, girls strong and weak, girls who burn bright and brighter - and some who flicker away.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- John A Sorensen
- 05-24-16
Most Disturbing Book I've Ever Heard
This book reads like a worst case parenting scenario to anyone with daughters. Unsettling and extremely graphic, not for the faint of heart. The story is engaging if you can stomach the language and subject matter.
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- Annalisa
- 06-12-16
Raw account of teen girls gone totally wild
A peaceful village is shaken by a mysterious teen suicide. Behind the boy's death there are several stories of bullying, gossip, crimes committed out of boredom, testing the limits of sexual pleasure, intoxication and rebellion against a conservative society.
Until the end we keep wondering who is the puppet and who is the puppeteer? Who is the witch?
How far can go peer influence on teenage girls? Kurt Cobain's life and music are a constant reference where every other religion failed.
Gender issues and uncomfortable questions are raised by daughters and mothers. The first person narration, alternating characters in different chapters, gives a rich contrast of perspectives, exclusively using female voices though. This choices deepens the study of female psyche, but I personally missed the counterpart of fathers and sons.
Certain passages are sublime, while others seem to go too far in a twisted direction, where situations get worse and worse, and become unbelievable.
If you want to go back and feel that teen angst of the 90', if you want to feel female friendship and love, this book is for you, painful but gripping.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Hope C. Hutchinson
- 09-30-16
Girls on Fire ignites your desire to keep reading!
Where does Girls on Fire rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This is one of the top audio books I have read. One of the key factors for me in ranking books is the unpredictability of a book. I never saw the ending coming.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Lacey. Without giving too much away, she is epitome of teenage angst.
Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I have not. They were fantastic and embodied the characters.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Come as you are. Readers/Listeners of the book will understand how appropriate this tag line is.
Any additional comments?
A novel about teenage angst and fighting the desire to fit in. As a teenager who often did not fit in with the popular kids, I found myself rooting for Lacey and Dex and their friendship.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Emily
- 11-08-16
Trying to hard
Trying to hard to seem deep. Didn't love it but it kept my interest enough to finish.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- KERKirby@yahoo.com
- 07-28-16
Not my favorite.
This book held promise of 90s nostalgia along with a suspenseful story, but didn't really deliver. I found the story to be very predictable and none of the characters to be particularly interesting. Additionally, three narrators are used, I assume to differentiate point of view. However, the main two voices were so similar (and grating) that it did little to move that idea forward. I was disappointed.
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- BA1234
- 05-24-16
Depressing
While the narrators did a good job, the story was depressing. I've read plenty of books with no happy ending but this books entire story was almost completely pointless other than the underlying theme of high school bullies and a forced "mystery."
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Jamie
- 06-27-16
Captivating for awhile but the end DRAGS
This was definitely a good audible pick for cleaning/exercising/long drives, etc., since it isn't too heavy and generally keeps the listener engaged. However, the last couple hours DRAG so much, are so repetitive and tedious, as if the writer really fell in love with describing the warped relationship dynamics and couldn't stop herself from going over the same territory a hundred times. Despite the great performance, it definitely made me long for a physical book that I could just skim through to get to something of substance again, or even just to the end.
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- Peter
- 08-18-16
I say give it a chance
The 2 main girls were good people that when put together certain things
went downhill. Sometimes in life we meet someone that we almost worship,
and after that things can get better or worse. I also enjoyed the narration, and I
can be very picky
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Claudia H
- 06-24-16
Shocking isn't the word I'd use.
I didn't find this book to be "shocking" as the summary implies, it all seemed quite normal to me. High school is hard on everyone, there are mean girls, nice girls, and sad kids, some who even kill themselves. Girls have special bonds at that age, because it can be so hard, and it's a time of change, and sometimes, those close friends become something else. Girls you thought you hated, turn out to not be so bad. It all sounds very normal
I think that's supposed to be the thing that messes with you. How so many things that are so common can go wrong in a way that seems to snowball until it's out of control. I think the author was reaching with a lot of stuff, and didn't always hit the mark (like three-somes in an abandoned train car), but when it does, it hits hard (drunk girl defiled at a party, in graphic detail).
The graphic details and language try and put you on edge, make you uncomfortable, and drive home the passion the author is trying to portray, but I think it misses the mark. I think she's trying too hard and it just comes across vulgar for the sake of it.
All that aside, I like this book, but I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone. I'd suggest they read the summary, tell them that it's "just OK", and if they still felt inclined to read it, that's on them.
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- Cathrine Nelson
- 06-07-16
The Skimm was right.
The story was powerful and well written. The performance played true to the story line. it was enjoyable to always be guessing what would happen next and to have it finish with a satisfying climax which was believable to the story.
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