Wilder Girls
By Rory Powers
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Fiction
Genre: fantasy, horror, mystery, LGBTQ
Read on 2019-09-23
View additional specs on this book in Muhan’s 2019 Reading Survey ➞
★★☆☆☆
I get the Lord of the Flies-but-girls pitch from a marketing perspective, but in reality it’s way more like The Maze Runner-but-girl’s. Also there are fully at least 2 adults stranded with the girls - who are teens not children. Lesbian romance was shite, no build up, no build out, not a fan. Hinted throuple in the beginning was intriguing but dropped so abruptly and never paid off or fleshed out again. Spooky forest/wood zombie/body horror type stuff entailed by the “tox” that takes over the island where these girls are stranded is v good, v innovative, good job. The logic of the premise and the whole underbelly of why they’ve been isolated and the real conspiracy, etc. is as bad and poorly thought out as the third/last book of any of these types of post-apocalyptic dystopian YA trilogies (worse than Mockingjay, slightly better than Allegiant, but that is no compliment). Personally didn’t like the ending, thought it was cheap.
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