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Underwhelming young adult

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

November 25, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

I’m way behind on my reviews and this book wasn’t terribly memorable so please bear with me while I try to weasel 250 words out of it. Wilder Girls has an absolutely gorgeous cover but if you try to judge the book by it, prepare to be woefully disappointed. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just blah. Mercifully free of flashbacks, this book takes place at a girls’ boarding school on an island off the coast of Maine (I think, I’m pretty sure it’s Maine). A […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: rory power

lowercasesee's CBR11 Review No:99 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: rory power ·
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Came for the cover art; stayed for the story

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

October 14, 2019 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

I’ve confessed before that I have a habit of buying books based on their covers. I totally bought this book based on the cover. I read the summary and I was like “hm.. it’s probably YA” and I don’t tend to buy YA these days, but then I said “I don’t care- that cover art!” So, it is YA, and like the cover, it’s very, very good YA. I’d say it wears it’s inspiration from Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation trilogy proudly, and does a lot of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Annihilation, Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation, body horror, Jeff VanderMeer, LGBTQ, rory power, wilder girls, YA

Claire Badger's CBR11 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Annihilation, Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation, body horror, Jeff VanderMeer, LGBTQ, rory power, wilder girls, YA ·
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