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goodem9199's review
3.0
Not sure if I want to 4 star this or 1 star it. The ending is ridiculous and made me want to throw it into a dumpster fire. I’m all for a twist, but come on. I feel the need to play Candy Crush for a few days to clean my brain out.
ambeesbookishpages's review
5.0
The full review + more can be found at The Book Bratz
*Thank you so much to Sara and Imprint for the opportunity to read THE TENTH GIRL!*
***I tried to keep this review as spoiler free as possible! But please read at your own risk!***
Hi. Hello. It's been three days and I am still trying to wrap my head around the last 150 pages of The Tenth Girl. I been working with Sara on an interview for The Tenth Girl and I was thrilled when she sent me a copy to read so I could ask more specific book related questions! Jessica and Emily had the opportunity to attend a Fierce Reads event at BookExpo where Sara was a keynote speaker and met her when she was signing ARCs of The Tenth Girl! (I was on another signing line, so Jessica got a copy signed for me and then told Sara how much I loved The Tenth Girl!) I was hoping to meet her another day of BookExpo but I had sadly cut my trip short do to an injury.
The Tenth Girl is a dark and twisty horror novel set in Argentinian Finishing School in the 1970s, where Mavi becomes a teacher to ten young girls. Only, there is no tenth girl and no one seems to know about her or her whereabouts. Besides the darkness The Tenth Girl is rich in history and myth from Argentina and is written by an Argentine-American author. As Mavi's students and fellow teachers begin to show symptoms of possessions and the headmistress' son suddenly befriends her, Mavi knows she must get to the bottom of what ever is haunting the Vaccaro school.
I really enjoyed Sara's writing style. It is different then what I am use too and was quite refreshing. It also made her characters more relatable. The Tenth Girl is told from dual point of view. We have Mavi and Angel in alternating chapters. In the first few chapters, I wasn't quite sure what was going on with Angel. Who is she? What is she? Why is she at Vaccaro School? Is he a ghost? These are questions that I know readers are going to long for. But ALL of them get answered in the most brilliant of ways.
My biggest advice going into this novel: Keep your mind open and take in every single detail. Also, take a look at the aspects of the cover real closely. They don't stand out right away, but look at the fading edges of the cliff and the shading and you'll see them!
I am completely blind sided by the climax and the plot twist in The Tenth Girl. What. The. Hell. My mind was completely blown. With the pieces you are given in the novel, you come to your own conclusion on how you believe that this novel is going to end and then suddenly BAM! Everything is revealed and you are flipping through the pages to see what is going to happen next. You also might look like me who according to my sister, "Looked like a fish out of water."
I really loved The Tenth Girl and I can't wait to read my by Sara in the future. She has a unique writing style that is going to suck you in at the first page and spit you stuttering and in shock at the last page!
*Thank you so much to Sara and Imprint for the opportunity to read THE TENTH GIRL!*
***I tried to keep this review as spoiler free as possible! But please read at your own risk!***
Hi. Hello. It's been three days and I am still trying to wrap my head around the last 150 pages of The Tenth Girl. I been working with Sara on an interview for The Tenth Girl and I was thrilled when she sent me a copy to read so I could ask more specific book related questions! Jessica and Emily had the opportunity to attend a Fierce Reads event at BookExpo where Sara was a keynote speaker and met her when she was signing ARCs of The Tenth Girl! (I was on another signing line, so Jessica got a copy signed for me and then told Sara how much I loved The Tenth Girl!) I was hoping to meet her another day of BookExpo but I had sadly cut my trip short do to an injury.
The Tenth Girl is a dark and twisty horror novel set in Argentinian Finishing School in the 1970s, where Mavi becomes a teacher to ten young girls. Only, there is no tenth girl and no one seems to know about her or her whereabouts. Besides the darkness The Tenth Girl is rich in history and myth from Argentina and is written by an Argentine-American author. As Mavi's students and fellow teachers begin to show symptoms of possessions and the headmistress' son suddenly befriends her, Mavi knows she must get to the bottom of what ever is haunting the Vaccaro school.
I really enjoyed Sara's writing style. It is different then what I am use too and was quite refreshing. It also made her characters more relatable. The Tenth Girl is told from dual point of view. We have Mavi and Angel in alternating chapters. In the first few chapters, I wasn't quite sure what was going on with Angel. Who is she? What is she? Why is she at Vaccaro School? Is he a ghost? These are questions that I know readers are going to long for. But ALL of them get answered in the most brilliant of ways.
My biggest advice going into this novel: Keep your mind open and take in every single detail. Also, take a look at the aspects of the cover real closely. They don't stand out right away, but look at the fading edges of the cliff and the shading and you'll see them!
I am completely blind sided by the climax and the plot twist in The Tenth Girl. What. The. Hell. My mind was completely blown. With the pieces you are given in the novel, you come to your own conclusion on how you believe that this novel is going to end and then suddenly BAM! Everything is revealed and you are flipping through the pages to see what is going to happen next. You also might look like me who according to my sister, "Looked like a fish out of water."
I really loved The Tenth Girl and I can't wait to read my by Sara in the future. She has a unique writing style that is going to suck you in at the first page and spit you stuttering and in shock at the last page!
afern95's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
katmull's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
chick's review
I didn’t start it. Way too low of reviews and too many other well rated books came up at the same time
jmbibliolater's review
3.0
Special thanks to Netgalley, the author and publisher for providing a ARC in exchange for an honest review.
The Tenth Girl is definitely original. I was unsure what to expect from a YA novel that has a dark, Gothic feel to it. This is out of my normal realm of reading. However, I thought I would give it a try.
Sara Faring's imagination is spectacular. I always marvel in how writers can actually put stories on pages like this. I love the dark, eery, twisty feel of The Tenth Girl. I love how it incorporates mythology with an indigenous culture.
I did, however, have a hard time getting into the story. The plot - switching between two different voices - was a little hard to follow. I had to fight really hard to get over the weirdness of it.
As for the ending, spoiler free, I am not sure if I love it or hate it. There will definitely be readers who love it because it can be mind blowing. There will also be readers who do not like it because it can be viewed as a cop out. Me? I haven't a clue. I am both disappointed, unsatisfied and WOW'ed at the same time.
Maybe that's the point?
The Tenth Girl is definitely original. I was unsure what to expect from a YA novel that has a dark, Gothic feel to it. This is out of my normal realm of reading. However, I thought I would give it a try.
Sara Faring's imagination is spectacular. I always marvel in how writers can actually put stories on pages like this. I love the dark, eery, twisty feel of The Tenth Girl. I love how it incorporates mythology with an indigenous culture.
I did, however, have a hard time getting into the story. The plot - switching between two different voices - was a little hard to follow. I had to fight really hard to get over the weirdness of it.
As for the ending, spoiler free, I am not sure if I love it or hate it. There will definitely be readers who love it because it can be mind blowing. There will also be readers who do not like it because it can be viewed as a cop out. Me? I haven't a clue. I am both disappointed, unsatisfied and WOW'ed at the same time.
Maybe that's the point?
howie_nash's review against another edition
2.0
Such a long book for such little payout. Just watch west world
yawningyogi's review
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
swsquadleadr327's review
2.0
I'm very torn on how to rate this book. The writing was very good and the concept of the story was very interesting. I was super enjoying the spooky vibe for the first 75% of the book. But the 'twist' at the end just did not work for me. There was no foundation for it at all in the rest of the book. Maybe I just missed it, but I expected to be reading a horror/thriller and was enjoying it when that's what it was. When it took a hard ride into scifi a la The Matrix I felt kind of duped and it did not mesh well with the rest of the story. I also spent a solid half of this book thinking POV character Angel was a girl when in fact Angel is a guy. So I must have missed a lot about this story in general? All I know is that I'm bummed this story didn't work out for me because so much about it and the writing was super solid.