Wilder Girls: Rory Power - Softcover

Power, Rory

3.46

88,005 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1529021286 ISBN 13: 9781529021288

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, 2019

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Everyone loses something to the Tox; Hetty lost her eye, Reese's hand has changed, and Byatt just disappeared completely.

It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine. The Tox turned the students strange and savage, the teachers died off one by one. Cut off from the mainland, the girls don’t dare wander past the school’s fence where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure as the Tox takes; their bodies becoming sick and foreign, things bursting out of them, bits missing.

But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her best friend, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie in the wilderness past the fence. As she digs deeper, she learns disturbing truths about her school and what else is living on Raxter Island. And that the cure might not be a cure at all . . .

The Power meets We Were Liars in Rory Power's compelling, visceral and completely unputdownable YA debut about survival and the power of female friendships.

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Review:

Part survival thriller, part post-apocalyptic romance, and part ecocritical feminist manifesto, a staggering gut punch of a book. (Kirkus, Starred Review)

Power’s evocative, haunting, and occasionally gruesome debut will challenge readers to ignore its bewitching presence. (Booklist, Starred Review)

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, New York Times bestselling author of 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)

The perfect kind of story for our current era (Hypable)

A groundbreaking speculative story – brutal and beautiful, raw and unflinching. (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)

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 Talker)

Book Description:

Visceral and devastating, Rory Power's debut its an extraordinary tale of survival and female friendship.

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