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competencefantasy 's review for:
Sawkill Girls
by Claire Legrand
This is my kind of horror. I tried to listen to the audio book about a year ago, and I got confused enough between perspectives to think it was a non supernatural serial killer book, which would not be my jam. This is. One of my favorite things about this is how the girls are each flawed and not necessarily aspirational. They're traumatized, acting out, inconsistent and erratic. Yet they still have things the deeply care about, exercise agency, and save adults and each other. I thought the villain was good personification of creepy men and I enjoyed the generational trauma depiction very much. I also feel like the feminist aspects of the novel were well managed, definitely there without getting too on the nose or flat out telling one all its metaphors. The only thing I could have enjoyed better way the monster's origin story, which I thought was a little thematically eh. Overall, this was a good time and I wish I'd read it sooner.