Wilder Girls
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Publisher Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
"The perfect kind of story for our current era."—Hypable
Featured in Vulture’s "11 Books to Read If You Already Miss Yellowjackets"!
From the author of Burn Our Bodies Down, a feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears. This fresh debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything you've read before.
It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her.
It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.
But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.
And don't miss Rory Power's second novel, Burn Our Bodies Down!
Praise for Wilder Girls:
4 STARRED REVIEWS!
"Take Annihilation, add a dash of Contagion, set it at an all-girls' academy, and you'll arrive at Rory Power's occasionally shocking and always gripping Wilder Girls."--Refinery29
"This thrilling saga...is sure to be one of the season's most talked-about books, in any genre."--EW
"Fresh and horrible and beautiful....readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls."--NPR
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This may be Rory Power’s debut, but we’re sure you’ll be hearing her name for a long time. Wilder Girls is a twisted YA novel about isolation and environmental catastrophe, with hints of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go—extremely creepy boarding-school parallel, anyone? This isn’t just sometimes-people-you-trust-fail-you territory, but entire systems failing scores of teens at an all-girls school. We loved seeing protagonist Hetty take matters into her own hands. Intense and gritty, Wilder Girls is essential for readers of any age.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Electric prose, compelling relationships, and visceral horror illuminate Power's incisive debut about a group of young women under quarantine. A year and a half earlier, the Tox spread through Raxter Island off the coast of Maine, corrupting its inhabitants flora and fauna alike. At the Raxter School for Girls, the Tox continues to mutate the students in cyclical flare-ups and has killed all the teachers but two. Now, the remaining girls, including friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reese, 16, survive on meager rations, adapt to alarming physical changes, and wait in radio silence for a promised cure. When Hetty is selected for Boat Shift, the only chance to venture beyond the school's fences, she is exposed to secrets that tug at the seams of her understanding. And after Byatt disappears, Hetty sets into motion a series of events that will rend Raxter's careful framework from its bones. Abrupt perspective shifts sometimes disrupt the action, and the finer details of the Tox are left a bit vague even as graphic violence permeates the fast-paced story. Still, the tale's environmental and feminist themes are resonant, particularly the immeasurable costs of experimentation on female bodies, and the power of female solidarity and resilience amid ecological and political turmoil. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
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I enjoyed this book but I was just a bit confused in the end
But I enjoyed hetty and also reese.
Hard to put down
Right away I was in love. I loved the atmosphere and characters, its like nothing I’ve read before. I feel like some people are being too harsh, as I personally didn’t find it boring or hard to get through, though I guess that just goes down to preference. I read this book in just one sitting, I had trouble putting it down!
The only things that disappointed me were Hetty’s and Reese’ relationship and the ending. I just felt like their relationship started so fast and finished even faster? And overall I just wish it would have been more present throughout the book. And like a lot of people have said, the ending left much to be desired. I was surprised when I turned the page to just see the acknowledgements, as I was expecting at least 30 more pages.
Other than that I loved this book!
Disappointed
I love feminist horror, but this was just boring.