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The Wilderness of Girls by Madeline Claire Franklin

7 reviews

joisaddler's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Medical content, Cannibalism, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol

izypup's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous hopeful lighthearted tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The theming is overly heavy-handed even for a YA book. 
I'm not 100% of the CPS process but Eden's father being arrested and within hours her step-mother just peaced out as CPS gets there seems wrong. As does her uncle driving that night to get her from out of state (?) and CPS just has him sign a paper and listen to a spiel and he magically has custody. No home visit first, he just can take this child.

Dallas is a super feminist and there is a love triangle that is never even fully formed or developed or explored. There's really no reason at all to even mention it aside from Grace needing another reason to be resentful towards Eden. 
Again, I don't know much about how small town police department work, but

setting dogs on a sneaking out foster kid seems excessive.

Nothing goes anywhere,

the portal is real but no one even cares anymore besides Sunder who is debilitated by a sprained ankle and Eden who in more heavy handed theming suddenly realizes she needs to fix her problems in the real world first.

The sexual abuse by Eden's step-brother

I think was well-written and was very accurately portrayed especially with his response to the email she sent. 

This book screams "this is about Feminism" at you. You will understand the theming and symbolism of the book and then it will still yell it at you with forced dialogue. But aside from that, it wasn't terribly written and was good for a bit of a mental break. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Fatphobia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol

absiinthe's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Sexual assault

Minor: Cannibalism, Abandonment

lpogo16's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Gonna be thinking about this one for a little bit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

ldbraun's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This books touches a lot of subjects. Including transgender (very briefly), racism, police brutality, rape, domestic violence and suicide. Very dark content. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Cannibalism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent

stephmcoakley's review

4.5

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

emilyrobben's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful reflective

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Wow. Just wow. Not sure how this ended up in my Libby list, but I listened to it in a day. I could not turn it off. This is going to be a book that college professors use in women’s studies. Such a beautiful narrative of the female experience told in a very unique way.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia

While not graphic, this book discusses many of the all too common challenges of the female experience. You build deep emotional connection to the characters, which makes everything more difficult to deal with, so while not ‘graphic’ I would take the trigger warnings seriously.