Delacorte Press and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of Wilder Girls. I was under no obligation to review this book and my opinion is freely given.
Fenced in and locked away from the rest of the world, the young teenagers and the remainder of the staff from the Raxter School for Girls must rely on random drops of supplies from the government to survive. Physically altered by an unknown source, the struggle to make it through is complicated by flareups of the Tox and the pain that results. For Hetty and the rest of her peers, is there something at play for which they have no knowledge? Who can they trust? Are they every truly safe?
At first, Wilder Girls had a Lord of the Flies type feeling, but this changes as the book progresses. I actually liked the story more in the beginning, a classic survival of the fittest story that shows the breakdown of social norms during a disaster. The author seems to throw in plot points, in order to drive the story toward the eventual ending. I did not like the second half of the book, with one exception. The bit of realism at the conclusion did not do enough to resurrect the story for me, so I would be hesitant to recommend Wilder Girls to other readers.
Fenced in and locked away from the rest of the world, the young teenagers and the remainder of the staff from the Raxter School for Girls must rely on random drops of supplies from the government to survive. Physically altered by an unknown source, the struggle to make it through is complicated by flareups of the Tox and the pain that results. For Hetty and the rest of her peers, is there something at play for which they have no knowledge? Who can they trust? Are they every truly safe?
At first, Wilder Girls had a Lord of the Flies type feeling, but this changes as the book progresses. I actually liked the story more in the beginning, a classic survival of the fittest story that shows the breakdown of social norms during a disaster. The author seems to throw in plot points, in order to drive the story toward the eventual ending. I did not like the second half of the book, with one exception. The bit of realism at the conclusion did not do enough to resurrect the story for me, so I would be hesitant to recommend Wilder Girls to other readers.