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Title: Wilder GirlsAuthor: Rory Power
Published: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 353
Rating: 2/5
Summary:
Set on an island outside of Maine, at the Raxter School for Girls, we meet the students and faculty who are left after having survived eighteen months in quarantine after a mysterious illness called the Tox has spread on the island and caused havoc.
Review:
Books in this genre are little bit of a hit and miss for me, and sadly, this was more miss than hit.
The premise of this story is so intriguing and I like the way it's set up; we've got this group of girls, mostly teens, stranded at this school all by themselves and this weird sort of society has emerged. The threat of the disease is constantly there and although the girls at the school are trying to protect themselves from the outside, as the other things that are left on the island that are also diseased and dangerous, they also have a constant threat of the disease from the inside, literally.
That being said, I didn't really connect with the characters in this at all, or really care about them. I didn't feel like they were crafted all that well and I never felt like I really understood them. What I found interesting was the disease, so I liked the parts that explored that, but I wish there was more of it. At the end of the book, we're left with countless unanswered questions and the ending itself is left extremely open, so much so that it almost feels like it almost feels like there is no ending.
For me, the execution of the story felt lacking, especially when it came to backstory and characters, and although there are some good things, there's a lot missing as well, so for me, this was just kind of OK.
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