Wilder Girls
Jun. 16th, 2020 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearPeople just kept on telling me how great Wilder Girls by Rory Power was, so eventually, I put aside my reservations about body horror and ordered a copy. It's about a girls' boarding school, which has been quarantined due to them all being infected by a horrible disease. I breezed through it in four days and it wasn't nearly as unpleasant as I had feared, though the descriptions of the effects of the Tox are very effectively.
The setting is vividly evoked, and I liked the relationships between the three main characters - Hetty, Byatt and Reese (though I was confused to begin with as to whether they were first names or surnames). It was generally quite compelling and quite visceral in places. The emotions of the characters were well portrayed, along with the sense of dread and uncertainty.
But then it just kind of petered out and didn't go anywhere. I was left feeling as if very little had been explained or resolved, which was rather a shame, as otherwise it was a good book.
The setting is vividly evoked, and I liked the relationships between the three main characters - Hetty, Byatt and Reese (though I was confused to begin with as to whether they were first names or surnames). It was generally quite compelling and quite visceral in places. The emotions of the characters were well portrayed, along with the sense of dread and uncertainty.
But then it just kind of petered out and didn't go anywhere. I was left feeling as if very little had been explained or resolved, which was rather a shame, as otherwise it was a good book.
