DNF'd @ 52%

content warnings: mentions of rape, abduction and murder, main plot resolves around a group of girls going missing

I watched the Foxtel mini-series based on this book and loved it, so I decided to read the book it's based on because it's a literary classic and it was only $12. Turns out, I shouldn't have bothered. This book is as dull as watching paint dry.

The plot is about a group if girls going missing in the Australian outback for Christ's sake, and yet Joan Lindsay writes it in the most uninteresting way possible.

The only redeeming thing about this book is how queer it was: on multiple occasions the girls admire each other, Mike and Albert are so attracted to each other it physically hurts, and the words 'gay' and 'queer' are used way to often for it to be an accident.

God bless Foxtel for taking the barest premise of this book and changing literally every other thing, plus making it more explicitly gay.