Those Girls

Those Girls by Lauren Saft

308 Pages

Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Poppy

Release Date: June 9, 2015

Fiction, New Adult, Sex, Drugs

Alexandra is a quiet young woman. She has never had a boyfriend and is still a virgin. She gains confidence after joining a garage band She secretly loves Drew, the boy down the street. Mollie and Alex have been friends since kindergarten. They always do everything together and tell each other everything. That is until Sam and their junior year. Everything changes, and not in a good way. Veronica is a transplant from New York. The twosome becomes a three some. Veronica is wild, has sex with all the guys, and is the town joke. She doesn’t care what people think. She lives life in the fast lane with absent parents.

The story takes place over the course of a school year. The characters are well developed, and it is written in the first-person point of view from different perspectives. This book has a lot of similarities with other mean girl stories. These girls are friends with complex feelings for each other. The book is classified as teen and young adult but considering the amount of sex and drug use, I would not recommend it as that. I think it would be better listed as a new adult.