It’s been eighteen months since the girls of Raxter boarding school have been put under quarantine and the Tox has pulled Hetty’s life out from under her. First, the teachers died one by one, then it hit the students. Infected students’ bodies transform into strange contortions, with a growing parasite inside them. Now cut off from the rest of the world, the girls of Raxter must learn to fend for themselves. Equipt with guns and ammunition, the girls don’t dare venture beyond the school gates where the wilderness has a mind of its own. When Hetty’s best friend, Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if that means breaking quarantine and facing the horrors beyond the school gates.
BookishHQ was right on the bullet with this one. WILDER GIRLS is definitely one of the top five books I have read this year. This novel has everything: girl power, LGBT relationships, guns, and diseases, so if you enjoyed LORD OF THE FLIES, I think you would enjoy this one as well. Rory Power, a debut author, presents beautiful prose in WILDER GIRLS and goes above and beyond to articulate the internal dialogue of her characters. Power uses very distinct spacing in her book to further emphasize when a character is feeling out of it, which I found incredibly fascinating and creative. I highly recommend picking this one up at your local bookstore or library as it is definitely one of the best YA novels I’ve read.
BookishHQ was right on the bullet with this one. WILDER GIRLS is definitely one of the top five books I have read this year. This novel has everything: girl power, LGBT relationships, guns, and diseases, so if you enjoyed LORD OF THE FLIES, I think you would enjoy this one as well. Rory Power, a debut author, presents beautiful prose in WILDER GIRLS and goes above and beyond to articulate the internal dialogue of her characters. Power uses very distinct spacing in her book to further emphasize when a character is feeling out of it, which I found incredibly fascinating and creative. I highly recommend picking this one up at your local bookstore or library as it is definitely one of the best YA novels I’ve read.