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    Wilder Girls
    Wilder Girls
    Wilder Girls
    Audiobook8 hours

    Wilder Girls

    Written by Rory Power

    Narrated by Eileen Stevens and Jesse Vilinsky

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    An instant New York Times bestseller, Wilder Girls is Rory Power's chilling 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.

    'Body horror meets boarding school in a moving, terrifying thriller' – Guardian

    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 . . .

    'Your new favourite book' – Cosmopolitan

    'Wholly original and compelling' – Observer

    'A staggering gut punch of a book' – Kirkus

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateFeb 6, 2020
    ISBN9781529027273
    Author

    Rory Power

    Rory Power grew up in New England, where she lives and works as a crime fiction editor and story consultant for TV adaptation. She received a Masters in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia and thinks fondly of her time there, partially because she learned a lot but mostly because there were a ton of bunnies on campus. Her debut novel Wilder Girls was an instant New York Times bestseller.

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title worth listening to and loved the interesting plot in the survival genre. Some reviewers felt that the book was underrated and wished for a sequel. However, others found the story taken in a boring way and were not fully convinced. Overall, the book is described as creepy and weird, but not as much as expected.

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    • 3/5
      It wasn't bad. Actually the idea was great but I am not convinced about how the story was taken, at some point I was Just bored and a little curious about the sickness but that was it.
    • 5/5
      Worth listening to. I loved it. Sad that it's underrated. The plot was very interesting and I loved the survival genre here. I hope there will be a second book continuing the story)))
    • 3/5
      I still don't know what to think of it! It's creepy and weird but not as much as I expected!
    • 3/5
      Solid und kurzweilig, eine interessante Art und Weise an das Thema der Pandemie heranzugehen. Jedoch nicht stark genug, um in der Masse länger zu bestehen.
    • 5/5
      This book is not only good, it is really great. It is think about it for ages only to pick it up to read again great. It is mysterious, fantastical and yet it is down to earth and crawling under your skin in the in the dark of night great. If you like dystopia, mystery, a touch of horror and gore yet interpersonal relationships, betrayals and friendships, then this story really for you.