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Sawkill Girls book on grey picnic table

“Before I learned civility / I used to scream ferociously”

Sawkill Girls (2018) by Claire Legrand

March 12, 2023 by drmllz Leave a Comment

I find it hard to write or think about YA fiction without thinking about Taylor Swift sometimes–in this particular case, ‘Seven’ from Folklore (2020): “Please picture me in the weeds / Before I learned civility / I used to scream ferociously /Any time I wanted.” Sawkill Girls is a scream of a book beneath its veneer of preppy popularity politics and teenage drama and desire: a scream of fear and despair and fury, a loud barbaric yawp against vanishing and silencing, a howl against monsters and the different […]

Filed Under: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: CBR15, claire legrand, drmllz, Fiction, horror, modern gothic, YA, Young Adult

drmllz's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: CBR15, claire legrand, drmllz, Fiction, horror, modern gothic, YA, Young Adult ·
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Burn it all down, and start over. Again.

Extasia by Claire Legrand

November 24, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

A young girl has finally been anointed to sainthood. Though she is young, a prepubescent teenager, it has been her life’s goal to be anointed. She also wants sainthood to atone for the sins of her mother. Amity is her new name. Saint Amity. She is one of four saints in a small town called Haven. It’s the only town left in the world after wars and famine, all caused by women, destroyed the world. Only the four saints can keep Haven safe from the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: ARC, claire legrand, lgbt, LGBTQIA, Religion

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:68 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: ARC, claire legrand, lgbt, LGBTQIA, Religion ·
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Fun but ultimately forgettable

Kingsbane (Empirium #2) by Claire Legrand

January 8, 2021 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

Young adult fantasy with a girl standing up in the face of evil is so common that they all start to run together. The Empirium trilogy is different in that we’re looking at two young women protagonists, with the twist that one of them looks more and more like the doom to be stood in the face of, but ultimately this one won’t really stick with me. It’s not bad, it’s just not enough. Last year I got more into audiobooks as I would go for […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: claire legrand, Empirium

lowercasesee's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: claire legrand, Empirium ·
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“Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep.”

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

February 7, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

On Sawkill Rock, a quiet little island, girls go missing. They just disappear, and having been doing so for years. Yet, no one seems very concerned — life goes on, explanations aren’t needed.  And there’s a legend of a creature who lives on the island, who takes the girls for himself…takes them into the woods… Sawkill Girls focuses on three teenage girls, shortly after the disappearance yet another. Zoey’s father is the sheriff, and she recently lost her best friend under mysterious circumstances that no […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: claire legrand

badkittyuno's CBR11 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: claire legrand ·
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A Dark Fantasy Metaphor for Internalized Misogyny

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

December 5, 2018 by MrsLangdonAlger Leave a Comment

I loved this book enough that when I went to add it to my Goodreads list and saw it’s average rating of under 4.0, I was offended on its behalf. How dare other people not love this as much as me? But I get it. It’s a weird, wild read. The central plot is this: three girls live on an island where other teen girls keep mysteriously disappearing. Something sinister and otherworldly is behind this, and they must figure out how to work together to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult Tagged With: claire legrand

MrsLangdonAlger's CBR10 Review No:51 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult · Tags: claire legrand ·
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