emalee's Reviews > Wilder Girls

I really, really loved this book.

I started it probably about a year ago, then put it down. I'm finding as I get older that I need to read certain books at certain times. For this book, it happened to be this winter, and after reading The Rust Maidens in particular.

Both of these books have very similar themes. Young women, something festering within them, eating them from the inside out. A story about young women that have to make the ugly choices that are usually reserved for men in literature; what that looks like, to be feminine but not perfect and proper.

In The Rust Maidens, it's a story about industry and how it decays women, towns. In Wilder Girls, it's a story about the wilderness and how it will take us all back.