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Wilder Girls
by Rory Power
slow-paced
dnf@ 66%
Actual Rating
1.5 ✰
This was a book that I had been looking forward to reading for about a year. I was so hyped to read it because I heard nothing but good things. I don’t know why this seems to always happen with books that I’m anticipating, but this was disappointing.
The story focuses around three (Hetty, Byatt, and Reese) girls that are living in a boarding school on an island off a coast. After a mysterious, deadly illness takes over, everyone at the school is stranded and must now learn to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. The strange illness causes animals to go rabid and gives the girls and staff members of the school experienced body disfigurements. When one of the girls goes missing, our main character, Hetty, will question everything she has ever known.
“Now that I’m Boat Shift. . .”
There was so much repetitiveness, especially with this sentence. I wanted to cry from rereading just that sentence over and over again.
I did not understand the romance at all. I thought that Hetty and Byatt were a thing, or maybe they were at some point. The relationship between Hetty and Reese felt forced and just sort of appeared out of nowhere and then it was gone. Or at least never mentioned again. I am not even going to be adding this under my LGBT shelf because I do not feel that it is worth it.
Eventually I just didn’t care to read any more because I found it to be so boring. Usually when I’m so close to the end of a book I’ll try to push through just to finish it, but I didn’t see a point with this one and just wanted it to be over.
I am starting to believe that publishers will put beautiful covers on awful books just so that those books are picked up more and given a higher chance of being read.
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𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬
✰ 1.5 ✰ I did not like it.
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Actual Rating
1.5 ✰
This was a book that I had been looking forward to reading for about a year. I was so hyped to read it because I heard nothing but good things. I don’t know why this seems to always happen with books that I’m anticipating, but this was disappointing.
The story focuses around three (Hetty, Byatt, and Reese) girls that are living in a boarding school on an island off a coast. After a mysterious, deadly illness takes over, everyone at the school is stranded and must now learn to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. The strange illness causes animals to go rabid and gives the girls and staff members of the school experienced body disfigurements. When one of the girls goes missing, our main character, Hetty, will question everything she has ever known.
“Now that I’m Boat Shift. . .”
There was so much repetitiveness, especially with this sentence. I wanted to cry from rereading just that sentence over and over again.
I did not understand the romance at all. I thought that Hetty and Byatt were a thing, or maybe they were at some point. The relationship between Hetty and Reese felt forced and just sort of appeared out of nowhere and then it was gone. Or at least never mentioned again. I am not even going to be adding this under my LGBT shelf because I do not feel that it is worth it.
Eventually I just didn’t care to read any more because I found it to be so boring. Usually when I’m so close to the end of a book I’ll try to push through just to finish it, but I didn’t see a point with this one and just wanted it to be over.
I am starting to believe that publishers will put beautiful covers on awful books just so that those books are picked up more and given a higher chance of being read.
⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆
𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬
✰ 1.5 ✰ I did not like it.
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