I have been seeing Wilder Girls going around bookstagram recently and it’s for good reason! This YA science fiction novel grabs you right from the beginning with a mysterious illness called the Tox that causes the girls at a boarding school on an island to mutate. Some girls grow second spines, others grow scales, but the mutations and effects of the Tox differ for each girl leading to tense relationships while fighting for food while being quarantined. I am typically not the biggest fan of science fiction but this book definitely kept my interest and makes me interested in reading more YA science fiction because it was really thought provoking while also being out there enough to be a quick and unique read. I have heard a lot of people describing this as a feminist “Lord of the Flies” which I can see but I also think this book was just a great novel with incredible and deep young women as characters. The only reason this book did not get five stars is because I felt the end was rushed and I would have enjoyed more of the story before the ending came