Dayle Love This: Sawkill Girls (novel)
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Welcome to Dayle Loves This, wherein I recommend books, TV, and movies (and maybe other things) that rocked my world.
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First of all, just read this blurb:
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.
It’s perfect. If you’re an author, study this. There are almost no “to be” verbs. It’s all active. And it grabs you by your booboo.
I thought this was going to be Gothic-y, and I was mostly wrong: it was more dark fantasy. But that was okay. It was a breathtaking journey through three girls’ lives, and none of them are what they seem. Especially Val—being the queen bee doesn’t mean one’s life is silk and roses.
This book surprised me and moved me with every page I turned. I need to read more of Legrand’s books.
(Since I wrote this, I read one of her middle grade books, Some Kind of Happiness, and while it’s not a genre I normally read in, I quite liked it. I’ll be checking out more of her YA stuff soon.)