Yes, I even suffered through the nauseating descriptions of each girl's chest as compared to that of insecure Kristy. Of course, the three cute girls in shorts and bathing suits catch the attention of two "grubby" guys hanging out in their car.

Anyway, the boys begin turning up in the woods outside the cabins to stare and generally creep the girls out and one by one the three of them begin to unravel in their own little ways. If they were even remotely likable people, I suppose at one point I might have started feeling bad for them, especially the sulky Kristi who seemed fit for a straight jacket pretty early on, but that never was the case here so it kept the fun simple for me. This is one of those books that is terribly difficult to describe and boiling it down to its basic plot (cheerleader camp! There they meet a redhead also named Kristi and one day decide to ditch camp and drive to a nearby lake to skinny dip. It opens with an unplanned afternoon excursion to go skinny dipping at a local lake that goes terribly wrong thanks to a few relatively creepy local boys playing stalker after crossing paths with the girls at the local gas station.Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition.

I am a mother to an eighteen-year-old daughter and I was compelled to read this novel to the end in just two sittings.It's not as eerie of a story as I thought it was as a teenager but the ending - the fate of the three girls still gives me an uneasy feeling and reminds me why I never liked telling scary stories in the dark as a kid. Her novel The Life Before Her Eyes is the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Vadim Perelman, and starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. Except that an all girls cheerleader camp does not sound as much fun as the Lutheran bible camp I went to, amirite? Kasischke’s grasp of character and her skill at characterizing not just these three girls but the cheerleaders and counselors and small characters they encounter while at this cheerleading camp is so breathtaking that I was ten pages into the story and already felt like I knew them, like I was friends with them, huddled in the backseat of the little red Mustang with them, smiling at boys with them.

Of course, the stalkers somehow aren't through with the girls yet, not after getting a look at the three of them topless. J'y ai retrouvé un certain suspense, tout comme dans "Esprit d'hiver", que j'avais adoré, mais aussi l'habileté de Laura Kasischke à retranscrire les pensées et à décortiquer les relations, avec beaucoup de justesse. Then the story lurches back to the present where the three girls are all at yhe cheer-leading camp in the woods.which kind of goes against the point of a twist ending, but given this absolutely crazy thing happened, it seemed kind of lame to just give this reveal and be like, "okay the end. Okay, teen girls in bathing-suits are not necessarily my thing but this book probably won’t embarrass you too much, at least at the beach, since the cover screams summer read. If I interpret this story in a way that this story IS one of those lessons to be taught to young girls then I give this a 2 star. The three girls, Kristy, Desiree and Kristi, who sneaked out of cheerleading camp in their red convertible one summer afternoon and flashed a smile (and a little bit more) at two boys in a rusty pickup truck. Okay, so the beginning reads like just about a thousand movies I've consistently avoided like the plague of American cinema that they are.