Isolated boarding school with an cataclysmic event
Thank you for NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read Wilder Girls.
This one is definitely going to stick with me for a while. It’s one of those books where you think “did I like this?” And “what just happened?”
It was well written and very descriptive. The characters have all the flawed but real personality traits an isolated and half-starved group of teenage girls would have. Clannish. Selfish. Angry. Devoted. Violent. Rebellious.
The one drawback for me was having the reader come into the situation on the island far into “the tox”. I never felt like I was part of their story but instead cooly observed from afar as the events unfolded. I didn’t get a feel of who they were before and therefore I never quite understood the trio of girls at the heart of the novel.
Overall, I appreciate the risks that the author took telling the story without including a “typical” YA romance, leaving many questions unanswered and building the story around of girls who are just trying to survive even when it includes a lot of ugliness and hard choices.
This one is definitely going to stick with me for a while. It’s one of those books where you think “did I like this?” And “what just happened?”
It was well written and very descriptive. The characters have all the flawed but real personality traits an isolated and half-starved group of teenage girls would have. Clannish. Selfish. Angry. Devoted. Violent. Rebellious.
The one drawback for me was having the reader come into the situation on the island far into “the tox”. I never felt like I was part of their story but instead cooly observed from afar as the events unfolded. I didn’t get a feel of who they were before and therefore I never quite understood the trio of girls at the heart of the novel.
Overall, I appreciate the risks that the author took telling the story without including a “typical” YA romance, leaving many questions unanswered and building the story around of girls who are just trying to survive even when it includes a lot of ugliness and hard choices.