400 pages
English language
Published Oct. 30, 2020 by Random House Children's Books.
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 …
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.
Seriously one of the best I’ve come by this year. The audiobook was amazing. Writing was outstanding, crystal clear and horrific. Yum.
(Más bien 3'5 ⭐)
Esperaba mucho este libro, no solo por la tremenda portada que tiene sino por la premisa. Todo me parecía interesante, las primeras páginas y lo que muestra también. ¿Me ha gustado la novela? Mucho. Hay cosas que madre mía menuda pasada, pero hay cosas que se han quedado cojas.
Reseña completa (sin spoilers) en flightsofadreamer.blogspot.com/2020/10/resena-chicas-salvajes-rory-power.html
