Wilder Girls - Rory Power

The premise of the Wilder Girls is about a girls school that is being quarantined due to a breakout of Tox virus on the island. The Tox virus causes physical deformity with whoever catches it. So basically all the inhabitants of the island has some form of Tox virus; it appears the virus also affects the wildlife and nature.

The three main characters are: Hetty, Byatt (Hetty's best friend) and Reese and the premise of the story is really the relationships of the three girls as they navigate surviving on the island, in a way like Lord of the Rings, the strongest girls, like the Boat Shift, are the one who gets the food or have the power, not counting the headmistress and Welch, one of staff.

Note: there are themes of violence and LGBT in this book.

But the twist in the story is when Byatt goes missing and Hetty goes crazy because she can't find her friend so she and Reese sets out to look for Byatt on the island. What they find isn't what they thought.

Let your imagination go because if you catch the various clues along the way, you can sorta figure out where this story is going.

Don't want to spoil it so I'll leave it off. The story gets you think about the world and things that are happening around us, is there something more than what we see?

I enjoyed this book for the most part but something about the book didn't catch my attention as I hoped it would. Maybe I could not relate to the characters, not a page turner for me. I was going to pass this onto my teenager but I don't think she will enjoy this book.