Incredibly intense and creepy! I listened to this as an audiobook, and it was really well-read. The narrator did a really nice job of bringing out the characters and their motivations! This was a very character-driven story. I highly recommend listening to this book instead of just reading it. It's worth the audiobook hype!

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I was so disgusted at Keith/Deren and Silas! (I mean who doesn't hate a pedophile?) I find it hard to imagine these sort of people as actual people in our society but this book revealed that, yeah, this shit happens. And I was struck then, by how much Sadie loved her sister and the lengths she went to avenge her. I was also moved by how much Maybeth and Claire cared for Mattie and Sadie, each in their own ways, even if they disagreed with each other. Claire's struggle to get clean off drugs would be quite a hard thing to do. Her character definitely changed. And the end of the book, when West McCray, the podcast producer, realizes the importance of his search of Sadie and the girls' relationship, I almost cried. It was Claire's idea, after all, to name the podcast "The Girls." It really shows how she was able to turn her life around and truly care for her children in some sort of way. Read this book! You won't regret it.