BY CLAIRE LEGRAND
NARRATED BY LAUREN EZZO
SYNOPSIS FROM AUTHORS WEBSITE⇣
Who are the Sawkill Girls?
Marion: the new girl. 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.
BOOK TAGS⇣
⤏ NEW ENGLAND ISLAND STEEPED IN LEGEND
⤏ MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES
⤏ CREEPILY ATMOSPHERIC
⤏ GIRLS LOVING GIRLS --WITH A SAPHIC SEX SCENE
⤏ DIVERSE AND TIMELY
⤏ YA-ISH
⤏ LENGTH OF AUDIO - 13 HOURS
⤏ I LISTENED ON LIBBY THROUGH MY LIBRARY
⤏ NEW ENGLAND ISLAND STEEPED IN LEGEND
⤏ MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES
⤏ CREEPILY ATMOSPHERIC
⤏ GIRLS LOVING GIRLS --WITH A SAPHIC SEX SCENE
⤏ GIRLS LOVING GIRLS --WITH A SAPHIC SEX SCENE
⤏ DIVERSE AND TIMELY
⤏ YA-ISH
⤏ YA-ISH
⤏ LENGTH OF AUDIO - 13 HOURS
⤏ I LISTENED ON LIBBY THROUGH MY LIBRARY
⤏ I LISTENED ON LIBBY THROUGH MY LIBRARY
MY THOUGHTS⇣
The atmosphere that is set in place at the beginning was amazing. With its poetic-like prose and the small island town feel of Sawkill Rock. I was completely intrigued and there for it. The characters were not cookie-cutter characters, they had layers and not the usual ones. Even, Lauren Ezzo's performance was totally killing it. I was really liking this until about the second half or so...
Then the weirdness got too weird and the action scenes went on for so long that I'm really glad I was listening...so I could kind of tune them out. There were more than a few WTF moments...not what, but where...as in where the fuck is this going? This really could have been a tad shorter...shaved off some of those action scenes and some of the WTF-moments. With a few tweaks here and there, this could make for a super-cool movie, though.
The atmosphere that is set in place at the beginning was amazing. With its poetic-like prose and the small island town feel of Sawkill Rock. I was completely intrigued and there for it. The characters were not cookie-cutter characters, they had layers and not the usual ones. Even, Lauren Ezzo's performance was totally killing it. I was really liking this until about the second half or so...
Then the weirdness got too weird and the action scenes went on for so long that I'm really glad I was listening...so I could kind of tune them out. There were more than a few WTF moments...not what, but where...as in where the fuck is this going? This really could have been a tad shorter...shaved off some of those action scenes and some of the WTF-moments. With a few tweaks here and there, this could make for a super-cool movie, though.
Then the weirdness got too weird and the action scenes went on for so long that I'm really glad I was listening...so I could kind of tune them out. There were more than a few WTF moments...not what, but where...as in where the fuck is this going? This really could have been a tad shorter...shaved off some of those action scenes and some of the WTF-moments. With a few tweaks here and there, this could make for a super-cool movie, though.
BREAKDOWN⇣
Narration Rating⇢ 4 STARs
Plot⇢ 3.7/5
Characters⇢ 4/5
The Feels⇢ 3.7/5
Pacing⇢ 2/5
Addictiveness⇢ 3.5/5
Theme, Tone or Intensity⇢ 4/5
Originality⇢ 5/5
Flow (Writing Style)⇢ 3.5/5
World-Building⇢ 4/5
Steaminess to Story Ratio⇢ 20/80
Ending⇢ 3/5
Narration Rating⇢ 4 STARs
Plot⇢ 3.7/5
Plot⇢ 3.7/5
Characters⇢ 4/5
The Feels⇢ 3.7/5
Pacing⇢ 2/5
Addictiveness⇢ 3.5/5
Theme, Tone or Intensity⇢ 4/5
Originality⇢ 5/5
Originality⇢ 5/5
Flow (Writing Style)⇢ 3.5/5
World-Building⇢ 4/5
Steaminess to Story Ratio⇢ 20/80
Steaminess to Story Ratio⇢ 20/80
Ending⇢ 3/5
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