No one knows, and though they’d want to care they care more about surviving. Under quarantine with supplies brought it, its survival of the fittest.
The ‘Tox’ is a dangerous illness, it changes you inside and out, and the Raxter girls are all infected. It manifests in different ways, but one thing that’s noticeable is that it seems to easily kill the teachers more than the others, there are only two adults left and the Raxter girls are dropping in numbers as well. So, what is this Tox and where does it come from?
This book was chilling from start to finish, the girls are most certainly ‘wilder’ because of the tox, but it seems some already had that ‘ability’ to be wild just tucked inside themselves.
The disease is gruesome, we’re not talking about a virus that gives you different pretty features that though weird aren’t ugly, no, we have second spines jutting out, shut/sealed eyes, bloody pus, and more.
So…if you have a delicate constitution you may want to pass on this haha.
The girls are all flawed and horrible and good in their own ways and the close relationships are great to read. I really felt connected to their plight and wanted them to persevere. BUT I also saw the dangers they were to themselves and others as they continued to morph from the Tox.
The ending got me so bad, I was shrieking haha, ‘whyyyy,’ possibly falling to my knees for dramatic effect. It was more the style of the ending than the actual content, if you’re looking for some satisfying closure, *laughs* this isn’t it.
There is what you might call a lack of humanity in this story, it’s not about that, though there are glimpses of it, it’s about the wildness that is slipping through the girls and the island they’re on. And though I was really invested in this story from start to finish I think it could be hard for some to connect with the girls, they do horrible things and though you know they’re doing them without little choice/because they’re infected it can still cause a bit of a rift for the reader and characters.
Either way, I sincerely loved this novel and found it really gripping, it wasn’t fast-paced but it did keep the intensity at about 150% the whole way through.
The ‘Tox’ is a dangerous illness, it changes you inside and out, and the Raxter girls are all infected. It manifests in different ways, but one thing that’s noticeable is that it seems to easily kill the teachers more than the others, there are only two adults left and the Raxter girls are dropping in numbers as well. So, what is this Tox and where does it come from?
This book was chilling from start to finish, the girls are most certainly ‘wilder’ because of the tox, but it seems some already had that ‘ability’ to be wild just tucked inside themselves.
The disease is gruesome, we’re not talking about a virus that gives you different pretty features that though weird aren’t ugly, no, we have second spines jutting out, shut/sealed eyes, bloody pus, and more.
So…if you have a delicate constitution you may want to pass on this haha.
The girls are all flawed and horrible and good in their own ways and the close relationships are great to read. I really felt connected to their plight and wanted them to persevere. BUT I also saw the dangers they were to themselves and others as they continued to morph from the Tox.
The ending got me so bad, I was shrieking haha, ‘whyyyy,’ possibly falling to my knees for dramatic effect. It was more the style of the ending than the actual content, if you’re looking for some satisfying closure, *laughs* this isn’t it.
There is what you might call a lack of humanity in this story, it’s not about that, though there are glimpses of it, it’s about the wildness that is slipping through the girls and the island they’re on. And though I was really invested in this story from start to finish I think it could be hard for some to connect with the girls, they do horrible things and though you know they’re doing them without little choice/because they’re infected it can still cause a bit of a rift for the reader and characters.
Either way, I sincerely loved this novel and found it really gripping, it wasn’t fast-paced but it did keep the intensity at about 150% the whole way through.