"Hennes elegante omgang med setninger… med en slående billedbruk som gang på gang får meg til å stoppe opp og lese om igjen…»
- Leif Ekle, NRK P2
"Cline’s novel is itself a complicated mixture of freshness and worldly sophistication. Finely intelligent, often superbly written, with flashingly brilliant sentences. (...) On every other page, it seems, there is something remarkable—an immaculate phrase, a boldly modifying adverb, a metaphor or simile that makes a sudden, electric connection between its poles“
"Cline is an astute chronicler with a light historical hand.”
- James Wood, New Yorker
"Den kjente historien om Charles Manson får en feministisk vri i nydelig skrevet debut.(...) Som Elena Ferrantes Napoli-bøker er dette en roman om et komplisert og farlig vennskapsforhold, effektivt komponert med en rammefortelling, der den middelaldrende Evie Boyd ser tilbake på seg selv som tenåring."
- Anne Merethe K Prinos, Aftenposten
«Debutromaner av denne kaliber er i den grad sjeldne.»
- Washington Post
«Debutromaner av denne kaliber er i den grad sjeldne.»
- Washington Post
«Debutromaner av denne kaliber er i den grad sjeldne.»
- Washington Post
«Clines roman er fantastisk og overgår alle forventninger.»
- The Times
«Clines roman er fantastisk og overgår alle forventninger.»
- The Times
«Clines roman er fantastisk og overgår alle forventninger.»
- The Times
“The Girls is a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story hinged on Charles Manson, told in sentences at times so finely wrought they could almost be worn as jewelry…a spellbinding story. Cline gorgeously maps the topography of one loneliness-ravaged adolescent heart. She gives us the fictional truth of a girl chasing danger beyond her comprehension, in a summer of Longing and Loss.”
- The New York Times Book Review
"[A] bracing, psychologically astute debut novel...The Girls isn't really a book about cults, or about the '60s; rather, its real subjects are power and control, and the convoluted and sometimes damaging ways that girls and young women locate those forces in a world that's not made for them. It's about the way that the girls in the novel pay attention to each other - flatteringly, critically, with wonder and worship and disdain."
- Bookforum
"The Girls is a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story hinged on Charles Manson, told in sentences at times so finely wrought they could almost be worn as jewelry...a spellbinding story. Cline gorgeously maps the topography of one loneliness-ravaged adolescent heart. She gives us the fictional truth of a girl chasing danger beyond her comprehension, in a summer of Longing and Loss."
- The New York Times Book Review
«Jentene er en genial og betagende roman – imponerende arbeid for en så ung forfatter.»
- Richard Ford
«Jentene er en genial og betagende roman – imponerende arbeid for en så ung forfatter.»
- Richard Ford
«Jentene er en genial og betagende roman - imponerende arbeid for en så ung forfatter.»
- Richard Ford
«Emma Cline har et suverænt blikk for jenteliv, og hun ser rett inn i kjernen av deres sjel (…) Denne romanen vil treffe deg både i hjerne og hjerte.»
- Lena Dunham
«Emma Cline har et suverænt blikk for jenteliv, og hun ser rett inn i kjernen av deres sjel (…) Denne romanen vil treffe deg både i hjerne og hjerte.»
- Lena Dunham
«Emma Cline har et suverænt blikk for jenteliv, og hun ser rett inn i kjernen av deres sjel (...) Denne romanen vil treffe deg både i hjerne og hjerte.»
- Lena Dunham
“[A] bracing, psychologically astute debut novel…The Girls isn’t really a book about cults, or about the ‘60s; rather, its real subjects are power and control, and the convoluted and sometimes damaging ways that girls and young women locate those forces in a world that’s not made for them. It’s about the way that the girls in the novel pay attention to each other – flatteringly, critically, with wonder and worship and disdain.”
- Bookforum
“[A] bracing, psychologically astute debut novel…The Girls isn’t really a book about cults, or about the ‘60s; rather, its real subjects are power and control, and the convoluted and sometimes damaging ways that girls and young women locate those forces in a world that’s not made for them. It’s about the way that the girls in the novel pay attention to each other – flatteringly, critically, with wonder and worship and disdain.”
- Bookforum