a story of survival, monstrosity, and hope
The setting of Wilder Girls is lush from page one. Maybe lush isn't how you would describe it. The setting transports you to a world that's almost primordial. With overgrown forests, dangers lurking in the shadows, and a silence that feels heavy in the air. But what Wilder Girls really shows are girls who are allowed to be wild, scarred, and terrifying - monstrous. It seems the perfect setting for changes we cannot predict and that leave us soaked in blood. But it's also the perfect setting for exploring what happens when we are faced with our own mortality? What relationships will we create, honor, and sacrifice?
The main question, the one that will leave your stomach in knots, is: Are the girls at Raxter going to get help? They constantly assure themselves a cure is coming, help is coming, but the darker undercurrent, the thoughts no one speaks aloud is: are they? But throughout, readers are left wondering, what really happened? There are secrets and mysteries to what happened. What certain character's motivations are - and if we can trust them. It's a mystery in the woods, the absence of sound of rustling branches, bird calls, and moving water. Instead we startle at branches, can't remember the sound, and no longer appreciate the wildness of nature.
The main question, the one that will leave your stomach in knots, is: Are the girls at Raxter going to get help? They constantly assure themselves a cure is coming, help is coming, but the darker undercurrent, the thoughts no one speaks aloud is: are they? But throughout, readers are left wondering, what really happened? There are secrets and mysteries to what happened. What certain character's motivations are - and if we can trust them. It's a mystery in the woods, the absence of sound of rustling branches, bird calls, and moving water. Instead we startle at branches, can't remember the sound, and no longer appreciate the wildness of nature.