What a weird, arresting, interesting book.  The plot didn't go anywhere I expected it to, which is great!  It all started with a bedtime story.  A creepy, gory, disturbing bedtime story told to six year old Hazel.  Cut to a tragic car accident thirty-ish years later, when Hazel wakes up with a scrambled brain.  She can remember some things, events and people, but the emotional ties are gone.  As well as what she'd been up to in her secret life the last few years.

Not to give too much away, but Hazel's journey to remember, to figure it all out, led to some disturbing discoveries about the "family business."  Her family wasn't nearly what they seemed.  Am I the only one that wants to know more about Mom?

The pace was quick, you certainly don't have to wait too long to find out what is going on, but the mystery within a mystery, wrapped in amnesia and lies kept me interested the whole way through.

The Girls was addicting, disturbing and haunting.  I've said this before, but when I finish a book, and am still thinking of it days later, I know it's one that I will recommend to everyone I know.  Even if you don't like the characters, even if you really don't want to find out what is going to happen next, you can't help but keep reading.  The Girls will be at the top of my list when anyone asks me what to read next!