Gritty body horror

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Wilder Girls is undoubtedly a wild ride : action, saphic romance, dystopia, body horror are many of the key aspects of this unique novel. Not for the faint of heart tough; there are multiple trigger warnings to consider before jumping in this book's universe. Here is a non-exhaustive list : family trauma, explicit langage about body decay, murders, suicide. The story revolves around Hetty's life at Raxter School for Girls, which has been put under quarantine for some time now. The setting is vivid, thanks to precise and economical descriptions, both of characters and spaces. As well as choosing the right informations to give to the reader, the author excels at painting disturbing and poignant scenes of body horror, which can be quite lenghty at times. I believe the lesbian representation is both graciously intergrated (the author managed not to fall into the usual stereotypes of the genre) to the book and thrilling. Indeed, the three main character are in a love triangle, a structure that is, most of the time, very cliché and redundant. Here though, it is not to important to the story and underline the challenges of unconventionnal relationships, especially at 17.