Name: Wilder Girls
Rating: 3.525502318392581 (647 reviews)
ISBN: 9782221246788

Rory Power

Wilder Girls

It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her.

It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.

But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.

tori 👻

I was interested in this one ever since a friend recommended it to me last year. 
This was the first book I picked up in 2020 and I did so a few days after I started my self-isolation. Needless to say, it was an experience alright, reading about quarantine while the world is going through one. I truly wish I had enjoyed it more, but I felt no connection to any of the characters and was rather bored while going through the final pages.

The first half of the story was nice and intrigued me to know more about the Tox. Unfortunately, the feeling didn't last and I just wanted to finish reading for once so I could put it down.

With that being said, I can definitely see why this is not a book for everyone, as it wasn't for me. I can absolutely see why it is and will be adored by other readers.

Sarah Sammis

Wilder Girls by Rory Power is set at an all girls school on an island in Maine in the aftermath of a plague that has done horrible things to the students and staff. The survivors are disfigured by the Tox and the island remains quarantined by the CDC as the forest around them grows more wild and more dangerous.

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Francesca Starecheski

Many of us are only briefly familiar with pain, for it is rarely at our ends. But when we are consumed, we come to know ourselves anew, and sometimes we remain unchanged. The words in this book have some power such that parts of me I had forgotten were reflected.

'Your new favourite book' Cosmopolitan An instant New York Times bestseller, Wilder Girls is Rory Power's visceral and unputdownable YA debut. The Power meets We Were Liars in this compelling story of survival and the power of female friendships, perfect for fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. 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 . . . 'Wholly original and compelling' Observer 'A staggering gut punch of a book' Kirkus 'Body horror meets boarding school in a moving, terrifying thriller' Guardian

Leticia Leal

I am not one for long reviews , but damn this was so disappointing. I feel like I was really looking forward to it, and the premise had so much potential but it was underwhelming as heck, and that ending ppppppptttth

The dust jacket is good, the writing itself is good, but the story and characters are lacking. The characters feel copy paste with different mutations. The main 3 girls have very few differences, and it feels like as soon as Hetty and the other girl with the lizard hand have a heart to heart, suddenly her whole personality is just changed. 

There were so many different elements at play that made the story too confusing and hard to understand. I feel like if the book took place at the beginning of the tox, and this was maybe a book two, it would have been better. It just felt so confusing and like i had started a bad zombie movie in the middle of it. The explanation of the shifts, what happened to the teachers, the decline of the school, THAT would have made a good story. Seeing the grounds change or actually experiencing the tox as they did would have been better, but this just felt like we were randomly super far into a world without any explanation of anything, and what explanation we got was through quick flashbacks or words that didn’t make a lot of sense. 

I had tried to read this book twice before, and this was the third attempt, and it was just such a poor and confusing story that i had to force myself to get to this point. 

Marleigh Toenyes

This book is just- disappointing. 

The dust jacket is good, the writing itself is good, but the story and characters are lacking. The characters feel copy paste with different mutations. The main 3 girls have very few differences, and it feels like as soon as Hetty and the other girl with the lizard hand have a heart to heart, suddenly her whole personality is just changed. 

There were so many different elements at play that made the story too confusing and hard to understand. I feel like if the book took place at the beginning of the tox, and this was maybe a book two, it would have been better. It just felt so confusing and like i had started a bad zombie movie in the middle of it. The explanation of the shifts, what happened to the teachers, the decline of the school, THAT would have made a good story. Seeing the grounds change or actually experiencing the tox as they did would have been better, but this just felt like we were randomly super far into a world without any explanation of anything, and what explanation we got was through quick flashbacks or words that didn’t make a lot of sense. 

I had tried to read this book twice before, and this was the third attempt, and it was just such a poor and confusing story that i had to force myself to get to this point. 

i could not have prepared for the whirlwind this book put me through even if i had tried. it was so jarring, horrific, and excellent. i started it at 5pm today and it’s now 10pm. i couldn’t put it down for more than a minute or two. 

samantha lias

abbie j

i’m so sad that i didn’t love this book!! i really thought it was gonna be a new favourite for the first 70ish% but then it just lost me and the ending was SO unsatisfying for me :( but i really loved the writing so i’m still giving it 4 stars

Jenelle andersen

Really only chose it because I liked the cover, no regrets.

Alexa M

4.5 !! This was really gooood. Docked off .5 because I wasn’t as satisfied w the ending as I wanted to be!

Carah Gedeon

Maybe a 3.5? Idk. Solid book. Ending was eh.

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