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**IT'S BEEN EIGHTEEN MONTHS** since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her.
It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.
But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.
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Just read this book. It will have you guessing what's going to happen next. It had me glued from the beginning and I couldn't put it down!
I loved the atmosphere of this book. Great descriptions of this new world created by the Tox, and lots of tension created by how these school girls were dealing with this situation.
The romance to me was okay, it was actually hard for me to picture the two girls together, as it seemed like they were always on completely different pages of thought for me.
I'm okay with the open ending I suppose but some of the stuff leading up to the ending I just didn't love. As another reviewer points out some of the character motivations were hard to understand, a little flat. This makes me wish the book was longer so we could have filled in some more back stories or details for them.
I did like this a lot however and I think it will stick on my mind.
i liked the book, but i wish the ending was more concrete. i wish we woul've gotten a reese perspective too.