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...
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...
**** 4 stars
This was a very
interesting read for me. It was written nicely throughout the whole book, which
made it a pleasant read. It does require a lot of trigger warnings, though. (I’ll
mention some below) The book is classified as Young Adult, but I would say that
you should be a bit of an older young adult to not get scarred by some of the
things going on in this story.
It is brutal and does not
try to sugar coat what really happens. I would say it is borderline horror.
Which I like! I describe it as similar
to Lord of the Flies, but with girls.
Without giving any spoilers, there are animal deaths, human deaths and maiming. And the animals are, well, lets just say they’re not like they used
to be.
The ending is a bit weird.
It didn’t fit in with the rest of the story for me. But, that’s just me.
Trigger warnings:
Suicide, suicidal
Violence (graphic)
Gore
Parental death, animal
death, character death
Starvation
Non-consensual medical
treatments
Body mutilations
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