The Tenth Girl

The Tenth Girl

2019 • 458 pages

Ratings7

Average rating1.7

15

Okay so I finished this and honestly I'm not sure how I feel about it?

The book is interesting and different from the beginning, being written in two different viewpoints from two different time periods that are somehow interacting in the 70s in Argentina. So I was intrigued right away, and I'm not going to lie and say I didn't pick this one up because of how people were saying it was weird or polarizing online. That's exactly why I borrowed it from my library.

The book has a great creepy horror feel, set in an old finishing school, isolated on a glacier (or a mountain with lots of ice?), that is being reopened for the first time after some virus killed majority of the attendants and staff some 60 years ago.

I really did enjoy reading from the point of view of Mavi. More so then Angel, since her background was actually made known, instead of Angels which was just being hinted at for majority of the book to make you anticipate the grand reveal. Which really wasn't all that shocking, I guess? Probably because his background story for the most part really didn't affect anything in the book at all, except for his mom being dead but we knew that really early on.

The end of this book, with its twist, was kind of a crazy mess and I haven't decided how I feel about it. So maybe I'll change this rating later when I've processed it more.

December 23, 2019