⭐️⭐️ / 2 stars

Wilder Girls is about girls in quarantine on an island called Raxter. When one of Hetty’s best friends goes missing, she’ll break the rules to try and find her.

I expected more of this book. At first, I started the book without having read the synopsis and was overall just very confused at everything. Once I’d read the synopsis, I expected more than I got.

I liked the atmosphere and dystopian feel I got from the island and loved the idea of a virus mutating those infected. That being said, the survival instinct or aspect were too absent for me. I’d expect that in a situation like that, you’d do everything to survive.

The book is more character driven than plot driven, but the problem with this was that I didn’t really feel for the characters and thus the book felt a bit flat to me. Their actions and decisions where mostly just one big question for me. I didn’t understand them or why they did what they did.

Also, the ending was frustrating and disappointing to me. It felt very rushed and honestly like it ended in the middle of a sentence.

Overall, the book just felt flat to me. I didn’t really care about the characters and with the book being character driven that became a problem. I think this book is either a hit or a miss and for me it was the latter.