EricaO

Alright. I just started this book and I'm only on the third story, but already I have a few thoughts that keep growing stronger:
1) I hope to never know girls like this;
2) I don't have high hopes that these characters are ever going to actually grow up or do anything and I think I am going to be quite bored with them;
3) This is not unlike reading about a train wreck...only the train was going really slowly and, even though it could have easily been prevented, the train de-railed. No one was hurt and barely anything on the train even shifted, but it took a lot of time and probably money to get the train back onto the rails so it could continue to slowly inch down the track, going nowhere in particular and carrying common, boring contents.

I'm done, now.
While it wasn't the most horrible thing ever, the two stars come from the writing style more than anything.
Here is what the story seemed to be about in my mind:
Girls who can't seem to grow up drink a lot and don't do much with their lives yet complain about their lives and their guys. It seems to be a book of stories about non-women searching for their big girl panties...and not finding them.
Other reviews talk about how on the surface, these girls seem to not get along but their deep love for each other is obvious. “There’s an edge to the way these women talk to each other — they get sick of each other, they get annoyed with each other, they swear at each other, but they still care about each other.” from Washington Post or The Girls in these stories care deeply for one another from Full-stop.net I didn't see it. I saw some people who met in college, lived together and drank together and just never let go because this was the easiest way to have friends. I didn't see them having a real connection and I definitely didn't see a lot of love between them. They just seemed to hang out because there was no one else.
I will say, though, it ends on a hopeful note. It sounds like maybe, just maybe, given another ten years, these people might stumble into adulthood. They still won't have personalities, they'll still be lazy in relationships, they'll still be completely self-absorbed, but maybe the outside world won't be quite so annoying to their little lives anymore and they will learn to socialize with people beyond their college set.