Sawkill Girls, Claire Legrand
Sawkill Girls, Claire Legrand
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Sawkill Girls

Author: Claire Legrand

Narrator: Lauren Ezzo

Unabridged: 12 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 10/02/2018


Synopsis

“Reader, hang on for dear life. Sawkill Girls is a wild, gorgeous, and rich coming-of-age story about complicity, female camaraderie, and power.” —Sarah Gailey, author of River of Teeth“An eerie, atmospheric assertion of female strength.” —Mindy McGinnis, author of The Female of the SpeciesFIVE STARRED REVIEWSNAMED ONE OF YALSA’S 2019 BEST FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTSA BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE From the New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn comes a breathtaking and spine-tingling novel about three teenage girls who face off against an insidious monster that preys upon young women. Perfect for fans of Victoria Schwab and Stranger Things.Who are the Sawkill Girls?Marion: The newbie. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she’s sure she’ll never find.Zoey: The pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she’s broken—or maybe everyone else is.Val: The queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal. Words like silk and eyes like knives; a heart made of secrets and a mouth full of lies.Their stories come together on the island of Sawkill Rock, where gleaming horses graze in rolling pastures and cold waves crash against black cliffs. Where kids whisper the legend of an insidious monster at parties and around campfires. Where girls have been disappearing for decades, stolen away by a ravenous evil no one has dared to fight…until now.

About Claire Legrand

Claire Legrand is the author of Foxheart, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, The Year of Shadows, and Some Kind of Happiness, as well as the New York Times-bestselling young adult fantasy Furyborn and its sequels. She is one of the four authors behind The Cabinet of Curiosities. Claire Legrand lives in New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie on February 04, 2019

ARC provided by the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. “Decades of dead girls. Poor girls and rich girls. Black and brown and white girls. All of them Sawkill girls.” Sawkill Girls is going to be such an amazing, atmospheric, spooky Halloween read for so many. The st......more

Goodreads review by Kayla Dawn on August 15, 2019

Okay. That was disappointing. This had so much potential and I actually really loved the first third/half. But it went so hardcore downhill after that.. I don't even really know what to say. It evolved from a creepy, creative story with great, diverse characters to a way overdone, rushed, man hating m......more

Goodreads review by destiny ♡ on April 24, 2022

This is one of those reviews that I had to sit on for a while, because I had so many things I wanted to say about this book, and I just couldn’t quite figure out how to condense them into anything even remotely resembling a sensible length of review. Sawkill Girls is being marketed fairly heavily as......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on January 08, 2019

Y’all, this book was legitimately terrifying at certain points and I LOVED IT SO MUCH. It wasn’t a completely perfect book (hence the 4 stars), but it was so dark and whimsical and dark and queer and DID I MENTION DARK? AND QUEER? Fuck y’all this was so good. SO GOOD!......more

Goodreads review by chan ☆ on March 13, 2020

this is one of the hardest books i’ve read lately because the concept is VERY cool but i just... didn’t connect with it at all. didn’t like any of the characters and didn’t really care what happened to any of them :/......more