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Wilder Girls
by Rory Power
Giving 2 stars because this book started off strong, the ending, would be negative stars if possible.
We have an all girls school on an island. The Tox hit 18 months ago, it effects all the girls differently. Some died right away, one has a second heart, one has a second spine, some have gills, one has lost an eye. The two older women that have survived, the head mistress and one teacher both bleed and puss from their mouths.
So detailed, so horrific, I want to know more. What is the Tox? Where did it come from? Is it anywhere else? What are the Navy and CDC doing to help find a cure?
Hetty is our main character, the story heavily involves her best friend Byatt and a third girl Reese. Hetty is selected for boat guard, she now goes with the one teacher left and 2 other girls to get supplies left by the Navy. They have to go through the dangerous woods, everything in the Forrest from the trees to the animals are also impacted by the Tox, nothing is innocent or safe.
This is where she starts to learn things are not all as they seem.
Food provided is thrown into the ocean, their teacher tells them it is bad for them, but doesn't tell them why.
Now Byatt goes missing, Hetty overhears her teacher on the walkie talkie and knows they are doing something sinister with Byatt, now she is on a mission with Reese to find her.
Up to now, I'm all in. Tell me more, I'm ready for it.
Then the book goes off the rails. So much happens so quickly I had to pause and go back multiple times because I thought I missed something, but I didn't it just jumps from event to event quickly with no transition or sense.
Byatt now gets chapters, she is in some sort of hospital, doctors are testing her, giving her medication. Now she has no ability to speak for no reason, her voice is too dangerous? What the hell happened? Again no explanation to where she is or what is happening to her.
We get tidbits of what the Tox is (a parasite), how long it has been on the island (apparently years before it infected anyone), but we never get a full picture, we have to try to piece together what we know with what is hinted at. So much is left unsaid.
When an author is writing about something like this, I want the science behind it (even if I don't understand) give me an explanation of how this is happening, give me more.
Then the book suddenly ends.
I don't want to say what happens, but it makes NO sense to end it this way, it was just awful. I don't recommend.
I could go on more about the potential of this book, but oof... the potential was lost in my opinion.
We have an all girls school on an island. The Tox hit 18 months ago, it effects all the girls differently. Some died right away, one has a second heart, one has a second spine, some have gills, one has lost an eye. The two older women that have survived, the head mistress and one teacher both bleed and puss from their mouths.
So detailed, so horrific, I want to know more. What is the Tox? Where did it come from? Is it anywhere else? What are the Navy and CDC doing to help find a cure?
Hetty is our main character, the story heavily involves her best friend Byatt and a third girl Reese. Hetty is selected for boat guard, she now goes with the one teacher left and 2 other girls to get supplies left by the Navy. They have to go through the dangerous woods, everything in the Forrest from the trees to the animals are also impacted by the Tox, nothing is innocent or safe.
This is where she starts to learn things are not all as they seem.
Food provided is thrown into the ocean, their teacher tells them it is bad for them, but doesn't tell them why.
Now Byatt goes missing, Hetty overhears her teacher on the walkie talkie and knows they are doing something sinister with Byatt, now she is on a mission with Reese to find her.
Up to now, I'm all in. Tell me more, I'm ready for it.
Then the book goes off the rails. So much happens so quickly I had to pause and go back multiple times because I thought I missed something, but I didn't it just jumps from event to event quickly with no transition or sense.
Byatt now gets chapters, she is in some sort of hospital, doctors are testing her, giving her medication. Now she has no ability to speak for no reason, her voice is too dangerous? What the hell happened? Again no explanation to where she is or what is happening to her.
We get tidbits of what the Tox is (a parasite), how long it has been on the island (apparently years before it infected anyone), but we never get a full picture, we have to try to piece together what we know with what is hinted at. So much is left unsaid.
When an author is writing about something like this, I want the science behind it (even if I don't understand) give me an explanation of how this is happening, give me more.
Then the book suddenly ends.
I don't want to say what happens, but it makes NO sense to end it this way, it was just awful. I don't recommend.
I could go on more about the potential of this book, but oof... the potential was lost in my opinion.