Summary:
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.
My Thoughts:
I had high hopes for this one, but sadly they were not met. The book takes place after the breakout and after the quarantine was put in place. We barely know anything about the girls' backgrounds, not even the main character. The novel took about halfway through to get interesting, but even then it was lackluster. We get hints of answers throughout the second half, but barely anything is truly revealed. There are almost no flashbacks to pre-quarantine to know what it was like before. The CDC is trying to find a cure by experimenting on infected students, but we barely know any details about that. I think there should have been a section of the book from the point of view of the CDC scientists and another section from the remaining adults in charge of the school. Staying mysterious about the origin of the disease would be fine if the characters were developed well enough.
My Rating: 1 star
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