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The Wild One
by Colleen McKeegan
Amanda is living a picture-perfect life —graduate school, Tribeca apartment, hot boyfriend — but a secret from her summer at Camp Catalpa comes to light and threatens everything.
I really wish this hadn’t been marketed as a thriller because it was really a coming-of-age story about the (extremely) dark side of female friendships.
I loved how McKeegan portrayed the back and forth of tween/teenage girls’ relationships and the desperate need to belong and not be the outsider, even if means throwing other girls who are (or could be) your friends under the bus to get the attention of the alpha girl. She really nailed that dynamic and captured the wild and seemingly random swings between all-consuming adoration and all-out brutal viciousness…. aaagh.
The story is told in dual timeline (camp days and the present), and I was much more interested in the camp sections and who the girls were then vs. who they turned into. There weren’t any big twists or unsolved mysteries, but the story is exciting and moving, and I overall really loved this book.
Read this for all the t(w)een girl drama and be happy you aren’t that age anymore. (And if you are… best of luck, and it gets better.)
* thanks to Harper Books for the Netgalley review copy. The Wild One publishes June 14.
I really wish this hadn’t been marketed as a thriller because it was really a coming-of-age story about the (extremely) dark side of female friendships.
I loved how McKeegan portrayed the back and forth of tween/teenage girls’ relationships and the desperate need to belong and not be the outsider, even if means throwing other girls who are (or could be) your friends under the bus to get the attention of the alpha girl. She really nailed that dynamic and captured the wild and seemingly random swings between all-consuming adoration and all-out brutal viciousness…. aaagh.
The story is told in dual timeline (camp days and the present), and I was much more interested in the camp sections and who the girls were then vs. who they turned into. There weren’t any big twists or unsolved mysteries, but the story is exciting and moving, and I overall really loved this book.
Read this for all the t(w)een girl drama and be happy you aren’t that age anymore. (And if you are… best of luck, and it gets better.)
* thanks to Harper Books for the Netgalley review copy. The Wild One publishes June 14.