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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
★ "Power's evocative, haunting, and occasionally gruesome debut will challenge readers to ignore its bewitching presence." —Booklist, starred review
★ "This gritty, lush debut chronicling psychological and environmental tipping points...weaves a chilling narrative that disrupts readers' expectations through an expertly crafted, slow-burn reveal of the deadly consequences of climate change....Part survival thriller, part post-apocalyptic romance, and part ecocritical feminist manifesto, a staggering gut punch of a book." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ "An ode to empowering women and a testament to the strength of female bonds....Far more than just an unsettling horror story, this powerful debut novel about a strange disease at an all-girls boarding school explores female empowerment, friendship and survival with tenacity and brilliance." —Shelf Awareness, starred review
★ “Electric prose, compelling relationships, and visceral horror illuminate Power’s incisive debut...[and its] environmental and feminist themes are resonant, particularly the immeasurable costs of experimentation on female bodies, and the power of female solidarity and resilience amid ecological and political turmoil.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Tightly coiled narration moves between quietly reserved to vividly but coldly detailed, doubling the horror." —Bulletin
"Your new favorite book." —Cosmopolitan
“Everything about this thrilling, unnerving debut will make you want to immediately read it. For fans of Mindy McGinnis and Gillian French.” —Paste
“Wilder Girls is so sharp and packs so much emotion in such wise ways. I’m convinced we’re about to witness the emergence of a major new literary star.” —Jeff VanderMeer, author of the New York Times bestseller Annihilation
"Wilder Girls is the bold, imaginative, emotionally wrenching horror novel of my dreams—one that celebrates the resilience of girls and the earthshaking power of their friendships. An eerie, unforgettable triumph." —Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn
“A nightmarish survival story that’s as much literary fiction as it is young adult...I couldn’t look away." —Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue
"The eeriness of Raxter Island permeates every scene, and Rory Power's characters are fierce and honest, blazing from the pages. This is a groundbreaking speculative story—brutal and beautiful, raw and unflinching. I adored this book." —Emily Suvada, author of This Mortal Coil
"A feminist, LGBT+, sci-fi-horror story with all the tantalizing elements of gore, mystery, war, and love you can ask for. Real, flawed, brave girls against a world gone mad. A shudderingly good read!” —Dawn Kurtagich, author of Teeth in the Mist
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
★ "Power's evocative, haunting, and occasionally gruesome debut will challenge readers to ignore its bewitching presence." —Booklist, starred review
★ "This gritty, lush debut chronicling psychological and environmental tipping points...weaves a chilling narrative that disrupts readers' expectations through an expertly crafted, slow-burn reveal of the deadly consequences of climate change....Part survival thriller, part post-apocalyptic romance, and part ecocritical feminist manifesto, a staggering gut punch of a book." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ "An ode to empowering women and a testament to the strength of female bonds....Far more than just an unsettling horror story, this powerful debut novel about a strange disease at an all-girls boarding school explores female empowerment, friendship and survival with tenacity and brilliance." —Shelf Awareness, starred review
★ “Electric prose, compelling relationships, and visceral horror illuminate Power’s incisive debut...[and its] environmental and feminist themes are resonant, particularly the immeasurable costs of experimentation on female bodies, and the power of female solidarity and resilience amid ecological and political turmoil.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Tightly coiled narration moves between quietly reserved to vividly but coldly detailed, doubling the horror." —Bulletin
"Your new favorite book." —Cosmopolitan
“Everything about this thrilling, unnerving debut will make you want to immediately read it. For fans of Mindy McGinnis and Gillian French.” —Paste
“Wilder Girls is so sharp and packs so much emotion in such wise ways. I’m convinced we’re about to witness the emergence of a major new literary star.” —Jeff VanderMeer, author of the New York Times bestseller Annihilation
"Wilder Girls is the bold, imaginative, emotionally wrenching horror novel of my dreams—one that celebrates the resilience of girls and the earthshaking power of their friendships. An eerie, unforgettable triumph." —Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn
“A nightmarish survival story that’s as much literary fiction as it is young adult...I couldn’t look away." —Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue
"The eeriness of Raxter Island permeates every scene, and Rory Power's characters are fierce and honest, blazing from the pages. This is a groundbreaking speculative story—brutal and beautiful, raw and unflinching. I adored this book." —Emily Suvada, author of This Mortal Coil
"A feminist, LGBT+, sci-fi-horror story with all the tantalizing elements of gore, mystery, war, and love you can ask for. Real, flawed, brave girls against a world gone mad. A shudderingly good read!” —Dawn Kurtagich, author of Teeth in the Mist
About the Author
Rory Power grew up in Boston, received her undergraduate degree at Middlebury College, and went on to earn an MA in prose fiction from the University of East Anglia. She lives in Massachusetts. Her first novel is the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls. To learn more about Rory, go to itsrorypower.com and follow @itsrorypower on Twitter and Instagram.
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Something. Way out in the white-dark. Between the trees, moving where the thickets swarm. You can see it from the roof, the way the brush bends around it as it rustles to the ocean.
That size, it must be a coyote, one of the big ones hitting shoulder high. Teeth that fit like knives in the palm of my hand. I know because I found one once, the end of it just poking through the fence. Took it back and hid it under my bed.
One more crash through the brush and then the stillness again. Across the roof deck Byatt lowers her gun, rests it on the railing. Road clear.
I keep mine up, just in case, keep the sight raised to my left eye. My other eye’s dead, gone dark in a flare-up. Lid fused shut, something growing underneath.
It’s like that, with all of us here. Sick, strange, and we don’t know why. Things bursting out of us, bits missing and pieces sloughing off, and then we harden and smooth over.
Through the sight, noon sun bleaching the world, I can see the woods stretching out to the island’s edge, the ocean beyond. Pines bristling thick like always, rising high above the house. Here and there, gaps where the oak and birch have shed their leaves, but most of the canopy is woven tight, needles stiff with frost. Only the radio antenna breaking through, useless now the signal’s out.
Up the road someone yells, and out of the trees, there’s Boat Shift coming home. It’s only a few who can make the trip, all the way across the island to where the Navy delivers rations and clothes at the pier the ferries used to come and go from. The rest of us stay behind the fence, pray they make it home safe.
The tallest, Ms. Welch, stops at the gate and fumbles with the lock until at last, the gate swings open, and Boat Shift come stumbling in, cheeks red from the cold. All three of them back and all three of them bent under the weight of the cans and the meats and the sugar cubes. Welch turns to shut the gate behind her. Barely five years past the oldest of us, she’s the youngest of the teachers. Before this she lived on our hall and looked the other way when somebody missed curfew. Now she counts us every morning to make sure nobody’s died in the night.
She waves to give the all clear, and Byatt waves back. I’m gate. Byatt’s road. Sometimes we switch, but my eye doesn’t do well looking far, so it never lasts. Either way I’m still a better shot than half the girls who could take my place.
The last Boat girl steps under the porch and out of sight, and that’s the end of our shift. Unload the rifles. Stick the casings in the box for the next girl. Slip one in your pocket, just in case.
The roof slopes gently away from the flattop deck, third floor to second. From there we swing over the edge and through the open window into the house. It was harder in the skirts and socks we used to wear, something in us still telling us to keep our knees closed. That was a long time ago. Now, in our ragged jeans, there’s nothing to mind.
Byatt climbs in behind me, leaving another set of scuff marks on the window ledge. She pushes her hair over one shoulder. Straight, like mine, and a bright living brown. And clean. Even when there’s no bread, there’s always shampoo.
“What’d you see?” she asks me. I shrug. “Nothing.”
Breakfast wasn’t much, and I’m feeling the shake of hunger in my limbs. I know Byatt is too, so we’re quick as we head downstairs for lunch, to the main floor, to the hall, with its big high ceilings. Scarred, tilting tables; a fireplace; and tall-backed couches, stuffing ripped out to burn for warmth. And us, full of us, humming and alive.
There were about a hundred girls when it started, and twenty teachers. All together we filled both wings off the old house. These days we only need one.
The Boat girls come banging through the front doors, letting their bags drop, and there’s a scramble for the food. They send us cans, mostly, and sometimes packs of dried jerky. Barely ever anything fresh, never enough for everyone, and on an average day, meals are just Welch in the kitchen, unlocking the storage closet and parceling out the smallest rations you ever saw. But today’s a delivery day, new supplies come home on the backs of the Boat Shift girls, and that means Welch and Headmistress keep their hands clean and let us fight for one thing each.
Byatt and me, though, we don’t have to fight. Reese is right by the door, and she drags a bag off to the side for us. If it were somebody else, people would mind, but it’s Reese—left hand with its sharp, scaled fingers—so everyone keeps quiet.
She was one of the last to get sick. I thought maybe it had missed her, maybe she was safe, and then they started. The scales, each a shifting sort of silver, unfolding out of her skin like they were coming from inside. The same thing happened to one of the other girls in our year. They spread across her whole body and turned her blood cold until she wouldn’t wake up, so we thought it was the end for Reese, and they took her upstairs, waited for it to kill her. But it didn’t. One day she’s holed up in the infirmary, and the next she’s back again, her left hand a wild thing but still hers.
Reese rips open the bag, and she lets me and Byatt root through it. My stomach clenching, spit thick around my tongue. Anything, I’d take anything. But we’ve got a bad one. Soap. Matches. A box of pens. A carton of bullets. And then, at the bottom, an orange—a real live orange, rot only starting to nip at the peel.
We snatch. Reese’s silver hand on my collar, heat roiling under the scales, but I throw her to the floor, shove my knee against the side of her face. Bear down, trap Byatt’s neck between my shoulder and my forearm. One of them kicks; I don’t know who. Clocks me in the back of the head and I’m careening onto the stairs, nose against the edge with a crack. Pain fizzing white. Around us, the other girls yelling, hemming in.
Someone has my hair in her fist, tugging up, out. I twist, I bite where the tendons push against her skin, and she whines. My grip loosens. So does hers, and we scrabble away from each other.
I shake the blood out of my eye. Reese is sprawled halfway up the staircase, the orange in her hand. She wins.
That size, it must be a coyote, one of the big ones hitting shoulder high. Teeth that fit like knives in the palm of my hand. I know because I found one once, the end of it just poking through the fence. Took it back and hid it under my bed.
One more crash through the brush and then the stillness again. Across the roof deck Byatt lowers her gun, rests it on the railing. Road clear.
I keep mine up, just in case, keep the sight raised to my left eye. My other eye’s dead, gone dark in a flare-up. Lid fused shut, something growing underneath.
It’s like that, with all of us here. Sick, strange, and we don’t know why. Things bursting out of us, bits missing and pieces sloughing off, and then we harden and smooth over.
Through the sight, noon sun bleaching the world, I can see the woods stretching out to the island’s edge, the ocean beyond. Pines bristling thick like always, rising high above the house. Here and there, gaps where the oak and birch have shed their leaves, but most of the canopy is woven tight, needles stiff with frost. Only the radio antenna breaking through, useless now the signal’s out.
Up the road someone yells, and out of the trees, there’s Boat Shift coming home. It’s only a few who can make the trip, all the way across the island to where the Navy delivers rations and clothes at the pier the ferries used to come and go from. The rest of us stay behind the fence, pray they make it home safe.
The tallest, Ms. Welch, stops at the gate and fumbles with the lock until at last, the gate swings open, and Boat Shift come stumbling in, cheeks red from the cold. All three of them back and all three of them bent under the weight of the cans and the meats and the sugar cubes. Welch turns to shut the gate behind her. Barely five years past the oldest of us, she’s the youngest of the teachers. Before this she lived on our hall and looked the other way when somebody missed curfew. Now she counts us every morning to make sure nobody’s died in the night.
She waves to give the all clear, and Byatt waves back. I’m gate. Byatt’s road. Sometimes we switch, but my eye doesn’t do well looking far, so it never lasts. Either way I’m still a better shot than half the girls who could take my place.
The last Boat girl steps under the porch and out of sight, and that’s the end of our shift. Unload the rifles. Stick the casings in the box for the next girl. Slip one in your pocket, just in case.
The roof slopes gently away from the flattop deck, third floor to second. From there we swing over the edge and through the open window into the house. It was harder in the skirts and socks we used to wear, something in us still telling us to keep our knees closed. That was a long time ago. Now, in our ragged jeans, there’s nothing to mind.
Byatt climbs in behind me, leaving another set of scuff marks on the window ledge. She pushes her hair over one shoulder. Straight, like mine, and a bright living brown. And clean. Even when there’s no bread, there’s always shampoo.
“What’d you see?” she asks me. I shrug. “Nothing.”
Breakfast wasn’t much, and I’m feeling the shake of hunger in my limbs. I know Byatt is too, so we’re quick as we head downstairs for lunch, to the main floor, to the hall, with its big high ceilings. Scarred, tilting tables; a fireplace; and tall-backed couches, stuffing ripped out to burn for warmth. And us, full of us, humming and alive.
There were about a hundred girls when it started, and twenty teachers. All together we filled both wings off the old house. These days we only need one.
The Boat girls come banging through the front doors, letting their bags drop, and there’s a scramble for the food. They send us cans, mostly, and sometimes packs of dried jerky. Barely ever anything fresh, never enough for everyone, and on an average day, meals are just Welch in the kitchen, unlocking the storage closet and parceling out the smallest rations you ever saw. But today’s a delivery day, new supplies come home on the backs of the Boat Shift girls, and that means Welch and Headmistress keep their hands clean and let us fight for one thing each.
Byatt and me, though, we don’t have to fight. Reese is right by the door, and she drags a bag off to the side for us. If it were somebody else, people would mind, but it’s Reese—left hand with its sharp, scaled fingers—so everyone keeps quiet.
She was one of the last to get sick. I thought maybe it had missed her, maybe she was safe, and then they started. The scales, each a shifting sort of silver, unfolding out of her skin like they were coming from inside. The same thing happened to one of the other girls in our year. They spread across her whole body and turned her blood cold until she wouldn’t wake up, so we thought it was the end for Reese, and they took her upstairs, waited for it to kill her. But it didn’t. One day she’s holed up in the infirmary, and the next she’s back again, her left hand a wild thing but still hers.
Reese rips open the bag, and she lets me and Byatt root through it. My stomach clenching, spit thick around my tongue. Anything, I’d take anything. But we’ve got a bad one. Soap. Matches. A box of pens. A carton of bullets. And then, at the bottom, an orange—a real live orange, rot only starting to nip at the peel.
We snatch. Reese’s silver hand on my collar, heat roiling under the scales, but I throw her to the floor, shove my knee against the side of her face. Bear down, trap Byatt’s neck between my shoulder and my forearm. One of them kicks; I don’t know who. Clocks me in the back of the head and I’m careening onto the stairs, nose against the edge with a crack. Pain fizzing white. Around us, the other girls yelling, hemming in.
Someone has my hair in her fist, tugging up, out. I twist, I bite where the tendons push against her skin, and she whines. My grip loosens. So does hers, and we scrabble away from each other.
I shake the blood out of my eye. Reese is sprawled halfway up the staircase, the orange in her hand. She wins.
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- Publisher : Delacorte Press (9 July 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0525645586
- ISBN-13 : 978-0525645580
- Reading age : 14 years and up
- Item Weight : 476 g
- Dimensions : 14.94 x 3.1 x 21.74 cm
- Country of Origin : USA
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Hetty’s life changes 180 degree when Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. TOX - more like a parasitic invasion that started infecting just the teachers first and then the students slowly, changing the physical sides of girls, can be called ‘mutation’. Not only infecting the human beings, but also animals and forest turning them wild and dangerous. Not being able to understand what’s happening to them, Hetty tried to look for answers and she finds more than she should.
I would say I have started liking literary fictions more. I love YA fiction but I guess I have become rather selective. Alright, so! My thoughts - I liked the concept. Weirdly, when I started reading it, I could believe that this can happen, quite possible. Parasitic invasion, mutating mankind and creating chaos, walking dead? Yes, I believe it’s possible.
What I liked about Rory Power’s WILDER GILRS is the writing style, plain and simple, easy to grasp and most importantly, relatable. I think there was room for improvement. Couple of portions were abruptly added, certain scenes ended and started pretty randomly, few stories could have lingered a bit more.
Apart from the above points, pretty quick and easy read. One-time read, surely.
Ps, I LOVE THE COVER!
I would say I have started liking literary fictions more. I love YA fiction but I guess I have become rather selective. Alright, so! My thoughts - I liked the concept. Weirdly, when I started reading it, I could believe that this can happen, quite possible. Parasitic invasion, mutating mankind and creating chaos, walking dead? Yes, I believe it’s possible.
What I liked about Rory Power’s WILDER GILRS is the writing style, plain and simple, easy to grasp and most importantly, relatable. I think there was room for improvement. Couple of portions were abruptly added, certain scenes ended and started pretty randomly, few stories could have lingered a bit more.
Apart from the above points, pretty quick and easy read. One-time read, surely.
Ps, I LOVE THE COVER!
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So i finished reading this book.
First of all this book has a very interesting premise. But ... Obviously things went wrong.
Now , thoughts: 1) before reading wilder girls , check out the list of all the trigger warnings for this book.
2) I really loved the body horror/ plant horror descriptions. They were incredible.
3)lacks actions- it's definitely boring at times... mostly in the middle.
4) main character- sorry but feeling for you was hard.
5) last 120 pages makes up for all the dull moments. Seriously.
6) the writing style is kind of weird but you'll get used to it. So keep reading.
7) Byatt's monologues were more interesting.
8) And one thing (that every reader who read wilder girls are saying ): THERE SHOULD BE A SEQUEL... cause wtf. So many questions left answered (80% of them actually) and What happens next? Whattttt?
And the only reason most readers gave this book 3 star -because of the open ending. Cause as a book 1 of a series this books stands out but as a standalone ( which it is) , it's disappointing ,cause the whole setting, idea, was so great but at the end it just turned out to be a mediocre read.
9) but I think the author must be reconsidering the idea of a sequel. CAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY QUESTION ANS ONE BOOK ISN'T ENOUGH. I can't imagine ending it like that.
10) also I think I'm gonna pick up Burn our bodies down when it comes out cause why not? I love weird books.
"It's like that, with all of us here. Sick, strange, and we don't know why. Things bursting out of us, bits missing and pieces sloughing off, and then we harden and smooth over." "the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything."
So i finished reading this book.
First of all this book has a very interesting premise. But ... Obviously things went wrong.
Now , thoughts: 1) before reading wilder girls , check out the list of all the trigger warnings for this book.
2) I really loved the body horror/ plant horror descriptions. They were incredible.
3)lacks actions- it's definitely boring at times... mostly in the middle.
4) main character- sorry but feeling for you was hard.
5) last 120 pages makes up for all the dull moments. Seriously.
6) the writing style is kind of weird but you'll get used to it. So keep reading.
7) Byatt's monologues were more interesting.
8) And one thing (that every reader who read wilder girls are saying ): THERE SHOULD BE A SEQUEL... cause wtf. So many questions left answered (80% of them actually) and What happens next? Whattttt?
And the only reason most readers gave this book 3 star -because of the open ending. Cause as a book 1 of a series this books stands out but as a standalone ( which it is) , it's disappointing ,cause the whole setting, idea, was so great but at the end it just turned out to be a mediocre read.
9) but I think the author must be reconsidering the idea of a sequel. CAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY QUESTION ANS ONE BOOK ISN'T ENOUGH. I can't imagine ending it like that.
10) also I think I'm gonna pick up Burn our bodies down when it comes out cause why not? I love weird books.
So i finished reading this book.
First of all this book has a very interesting premise. But ... Obviously things went wrong.
Now , thoughts: 1) before reading wilder girls , check out the list of all the trigger warnings for this book.
2) I really loved the body horror/ plant horror descriptions. They were incredible.
3)lacks actions- it's definitely boring at times... mostly in the middle.
4) main character- sorry but feeling for you was hard.
5) last 120 pages makes up for all the dull moments. Seriously.
6) the writing style is kind of weird but you'll get used to it. So keep reading.
7) Byatt's monologues were more interesting.
8) And one thing (that every reader who read wilder girls are saying ): THERE SHOULD BE A SEQUEL... cause wtf. So many questions left answered (80% of them actually) and What happens next? Whattttt?
And the only reason most readers gave this book 3 star -because of the open ending. Cause as a book 1 of a series this books stands out but as a standalone ( which it is) , it's disappointing ,cause the whole setting, idea, was so great but at the end it just turned out to be a mediocre read.
9) but I think the author must be reconsidering the idea of a sequel. CAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY QUESTION ANS ONE BOOK ISN'T ENOUGH. I can't imagine ending it like that.
10) also I think I'm gonna pick up Burn our bodies down when it comes out cause why not? I love weird books.

3.0 out of 5 stars
The island takes everything.
By M.@dragon_not_a_worm on 11 March 2020
"It's like that, with all of us here. Sick, strange, and we don't know why. Things bursting out of us, bits missing and pieces sloughing off, and then we harden and smooth over." "the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything."By M.@dragon_not_a_worm on 11 March 2020
So i finished reading this book.
First of all this book has a very interesting premise. But ... Obviously things went wrong.
Now , thoughts: 1) before reading wilder girls , check out the list of all the trigger warnings for this book.
2) I really loved the body horror/ plant horror descriptions. They were incredible.
3)lacks actions- it's definitely boring at times... mostly in the middle.
4) main character- sorry but feeling for you was hard.
5) last 120 pages makes up for all the dull moments. Seriously.
6) the writing style is kind of weird but you'll get used to it. So keep reading.
7) Byatt's monologues were more interesting.
8) And one thing (that every reader who read wilder girls are saying ): THERE SHOULD BE A SEQUEL... cause wtf. So many questions left answered (80% of them actually) and What happens next? Whattttt?
And the only reason most readers gave this book 3 star -because of the open ending. Cause as a book 1 of a series this books stands out but as a standalone ( which it is) , it's disappointing ,cause the whole setting, idea, was so great but at the end it just turned out to be a mediocre read.
9) but I think the author must be reconsidering the idea of a sequel. CAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY QUESTION ANS ONE BOOK ISN'T ENOUGH. I can't imagine ending it like that.
10) also I think I'm gonna pick up Burn our bodies down when it comes out cause why not? I love weird books.
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G. Noble
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great first half let down by a middling second half
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2019Verified Purchase
For almost two years, the Raxter School for Girls has been cut off, quarantined from the mainland due to the Tox. It either kills you or physically changes your body - giving you an extra spine or your hand becomes covered in silver scales. Even the animals on the island have been affected (cannibal deer, for one). Most of the teachers have died and the remaining girls are left with just two adults who organise them into working groups such as Gun Shift (protection), and Boat Shift (they retrieve the food and other supplies left each week). When one of three close friends goes missing, the other two break the rules to find her.
The story is told from the alternating viewpoints of Hetty and Byatt, BFFs with a third friend, Reese, involved in the plot. I had high hopes upon reading the first half, but I think it lost its way in the second half, and the conclusion was a bit of a disappointment. I expected something a bit darker to have been going on and I didn't feel as if enough had been adequately explained. I'm hoping there may be a sequel to go more into what was behind the quarantine.
TW: violence, animal death, sickness, self-harm.
The story is told from the alternating viewpoints of Hetty and Byatt, BFFs with a third friend, Reese, involved in the plot. I had high hopes upon reading the first half, but I think it lost its way in the second half, and the conclusion was a bit of a disappointment. I expected something a bit darker to have been going on and I didn't feel as if enough had been adequately explained. I'm hoping there may be a sequel to go more into what was behind the quarantine.
TW: violence, animal death, sickness, self-harm.
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Cass
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book for any age!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 January 2021Verified Purchase
I don't actually know what I was expecting with this book as I hadn't read much about it. The cover is captivating for a start; and we all judge a book by its cover. I thought it was going to be a girly YA book that I was only reading because it was chosen as a book club read. In that regard, I am so glad I went in almost-blind (sorry Hetty). I thoroughly enjoyed this story, a lot more than I thought I would.
"...they taught us how to crack a bullet open. How to... swallow the gunpowder like poison, just in case we ever need to die."
Its target audience is clearly teenagers, so I'm ever-so-slightly a bit older than the intended demographic, but I still connected with a few of the characters. There was your standard teenage bickering involved, but also that strength you have as a teen, where it is your against the world and you will win, nothing can hurt you. So despite the existence of the Tox, and the painful flare-ups the girls have to endure, there is a resilience there that conveys maybe, just maybe, the kids are gonna be alright.
There is a LGBTQ+ vein running throughout the story, but I wouldn't say the romance purveys the story much, it is definitely more of a feminist dystopian horror. But there is enough inner monologue that I feel the target audience will relate to in regards to exploring their own sexuality.
The science behind the Tox, explained mainly through the eyes of our young protagonists, has clearly been well-researched by Rory Power, and I found it simply fascinating. Power manages to capture the childlike naivety to the horrors of the world really well, but not in a patronising way, our characters are still intelligent and mature, they just lack adultlike cynicism. The fast-flowing narrative sucks you in, these kids have experienced something horrific, but they are not just going to roll over and let the world beat them down any further, they want to live.
"...they taught us how to crack a bullet open. How to... swallow the gunpowder like poison, just in case we ever need to die."
Its target audience is clearly teenagers, so I'm ever-so-slightly a bit older than the intended demographic, but I still connected with a few of the characters. There was your standard teenage bickering involved, but also that strength you have as a teen, where it is your against the world and you will win, nothing can hurt you. So despite the existence of the Tox, and the painful flare-ups the girls have to endure, there is a resilience there that conveys maybe, just maybe, the kids are gonna be alright.
There is a LGBTQ+ vein running throughout the story, but I wouldn't say the romance purveys the story much, it is definitely more of a feminist dystopian horror. But there is enough inner monologue that I feel the target audience will relate to in regards to exploring their own sexuality.
The science behind the Tox, explained mainly through the eyes of our young protagonists, has clearly been well-researched by Rory Power, and I found it simply fascinating. Power manages to capture the childlike naivety to the horrors of the world really well, but not in a patronising way, our characters are still intelligent and mature, they just lack adultlike cynicism. The fast-flowing narrative sucks you in, these kids have experienced something horrific, but they are not just going to roll over and let the world beat them down any further, they want to live.
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MD
5.0 out of 5 stars
Phenomenal
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 July 2020Verified Purchase
Gah, this book!!!!!
I've had it on my kindle for over a year, and I wasn't sure why I hadn't yet read it, so one day I picked it up, not expecting to be totally grabbed by it...and I didn't surface until I'd finish it. Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration as I read it in sections across about a week. But I truly felt like I was never leaving this book every time I paused. I was so caught up in this world, and I felt like I was living in it. I couldn't stop thinking about it.
It's amazing. Even if I was reading about a pandemic during a real global pandemic...
Hetty, Byatt, and Reese are at the Raxter school, an all-girls school, on an island, when the Tox breaks out and they're all in quarantine, unable to leave. The Tox is a brutal illness--and it marks its victims in different ways, if they survive it at all. Hetty lost an eye to it, Byatt's got problems with her spine, and Reese has got a scaled hand. And pretty much every character has some sort of disability from it. And I wasn't expecting the disability rep to be great, I'll be honest--but it really is. As a disabled reader, I was so delighted to see this. All the characters in this book are disabled and badass. I loved it!
And Miss Welch--can we just talk about her for a moment? Her characterisation is wonderful. I was really hating her (spoiler ahead--skip to next paragraph to avoid it!) and then there's that amazing reveal where all her actions that make us hate her suddenly make sense, and we learn who the real villain of the book is.
Talking of great reveals--the way we learn info about what the Tox is and what is really going on on Raxter island is just great.
The writing in this book is incredible. It's almost stream-of-consciousness in places, just sooooo immersive and beautifully written. It's told in dual POV between Hetty and Byatt, and even their narrative voices are so distinct, despite both being written in this immersive way.
And the romance. This is such a great LGBT book with romance between Hetty and Reese (I'll be honest, I didn't see that coming as there's a real closeness between Hetty and Byatt, but it felt so natural.) I think Reese is my fave character though. There's something fierce and prickly about her. She's not as easy to like, and I love that.
The only thing that surprised me about this book is the ending... Like, is there going to be a sequel??? Because the (and another spoiler here!) whole book is about beating the Tox, and that just...doesn't happen. It feels like we've got the set up for at least another book. This one finishes with Hetty and Reese escaping the island, but it doesn't feel like the story's over yet. I really hope there's a sequel.
I've had it on my kindle for over a year, and I wasn't sure why I hadn't yet read it, so one day I picked it up, not expecting to be totally grabbed by it...and I didn't surface until I'd finish it. Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration as I read it in sections across about a week. But I truly felt like I was never leaving this book every time I paused. I was so caught up in this world, and I felt like I was living in it. I couldn't stop thinking about it.
It's amazing. Even if I was reading about a pandemic during a real global pandemic...
Hetty, Byatt, and Reese are at the Raxter school, an all-girls school, on an island, when the Tox breaks out and they're all in quarantine, unable to leave. The Tox is a brutal illness--and it marks its victims in different ways, if they survive it at all. Hetty lost an eye to it, Byatt's got problems with her spine, and Reese has got a scaled hand. And pretty much every character has some sort of disability from it. And I wasn't expecting the disability rep to be great, I'll be honest--but it really is. As a disabled reader, I was so delighted to see this. All the characters in this book are disabled and badass. I loved it!
And Miss Welch--can we just talk about her for a moment? Her characterisation is wonderful. I was really hating her (spoiler ahead--skip to next paragraph to avoid it!) and then there's that amazing reveal where all her actions that make us hate her suddenly make sense, and we learn who the real villain of the book is.
Talking of great reveals--the way we learn info about what the Tox is and what is really going on on Raxter island is just great.
The writing in this book is incredible. It's almost stream-of-consciousness in places, just sooooo immersive and beautifully written. It's told in dual POV between Hetty and Byatt, and even their narrative voices are so distinct, despite both being written in this immersive way.
And the romance. This is such a great LGBT book with romance between Hetty and Reese (I'll be honest, I didn't see that coming as there's a real closeness between Hetty and Byatt, but it felt so natural.) I think Reese is my fave character though. There's something fierce and prickly about her. She's not as easy to like, and I love that.
The only thing that surprised me about this book is the ending... Like, is there going to be a sequel??? Because the (and another spoiler here!) whole book is about beating the Tox, and that just...doesn't happen. It feels like we've got the set up for at least another book. This one finishes with Hetty and Reese escaping the island, but it doesn't feel like the story's over yet. I really hope there's a sequel.
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jenny ayre
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dystopian virus
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2019Verified Purchase
I'm not sure if i liked this book. I
Wilder Girls follows Hetty, Byatt and Reese, three girls who, along with the rest of their school, are infected with Tox, a disease that causes mutations.
My issue is that the story starts 18 months after infection,so there's no understanding of what caused it. Right at the end there's a throwaway line with the possible origin of the disease, but no suggestion as to why it only affected the island of Raxter.
The characters are ok, I didn't feel really involved with any of them, the story is ok, it reminded me of Gone by Michael Grant. I assume there will be a follow up, but I won't be reading it.
Wilder Girls follows Hetty, Byatt and Reese, three girls who, along with the rest of their school, are infected with Tox, a disease that causes mutations.
My issue is that the story starts 18 months after infection,so there's no understanding of what caused it. Right at the end there's a throwaway line with the possible origin of the disease, but no suggestion as to why it only affected the island of Raxter.
The characters are ok, I didn't feel really involved with any of them, the story is ok, it reminded me of Gone by Michael Grant. I assume there will be a follow up, but I won't be reading it.
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Coral Hammond
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's great, it just feels like it's missing something
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 October 2019Verified Purchase
Wilder Girls was an amazing read and I cannot compliment it enough. I will recommend this to a lot of people in the future. My only criticism is that sometimes it felt like there were things missing. Not in the 'the author is purposely withholding information' kinda way, more like the author suddenly thought of this and it seems kinda important but it never gets mentioned again kinda way. I'm sincerely hoping for a sequel to tie up loose ends but it also works well as a stand alone, leaving the reader asking 'what if'.
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