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Media Type: Novel in Verse
Genre: Mystery; Experimental; Thriller
Length: /3.45 hours
Warnings: Cults, Sexism, Past attempted sexual assault, Queerphobia, Dementia, Character death, Abortion mention, Alcohol/drug use
Complete/Ongoing:
Free/Paid: Paid
Distributor: Little Brown Books
Creator's Website: Amelia Brunskill
Summary:Nine girls bound together
in beautiful, virtuous Havenwood,
a refuge from an unsafe world.
Then there are eight
one of them gone --
departed with no warning.
Did this member of their pack
stray willingly,
or did something more sinister occur?
The girls seek answers
not knowing if they should be angry
or frightened
or perhaps,
they should be both.
Review: So this is kinda a mixed bag rec. I enjoyed it and I think anybody reading it will find interesting ideas about how to construct a book. But its not the kind of book I'm going to go out and share with everybody I know. And not just because of the major trigger warnings.
A mystery about a missing girl told partially by each of the titular members of the pack. It is also told in plural narrative when more than two of the girls are present in a place or scene. Which is a fascinating way to look into the group think in a closed high control religious group.
As you see things on three levels. What the girls as a whole know they should think and do. What the girls communicate to each other and those outside the group when they are more free to think for themselves. And how the group then works together to integrate the individual knowledge into their religious doctrine.
As I've seen said in other recs, I don't think the fairly banal mystery took away from what the author was trying to explore here. But I also don't think I'd go you know that mystery was just too good it took away from the point of the narrative setup if it had been more twisty.
Wolfpack Book
Wolfpack Audiobook
Genre: Mystery; Experimental; Thriller
Length: /3.45 hours
Warnings: Cults, Sexism, Past attempted sexual assault, Queerphobia, Dementia, Character death, Abortion mention, Alcohol/drug use
Complete/Ongoing:
Free/Paid: Paid
Distributor: Little Brown Books
Creator's Website: Amelia Brunskill
Summary:Nine girls bound together
in beautiful, virtuous Havenwood,
a refuge from an unsafe world.
Then there are eight
one of them gone --
departed with no warning.
Did this member of their pack
stray willingly,
or did something more sinister occur?
The girls seek answers
not knowing if they should be angry
or frightened
or perhaps,
they should be both.
Review: So this is kinda a mixed bag rec. I enjoyed it and I think anybody reading it will find interesting ideas about how to construct a book. But its not the kind of book I'm going to go out and share with everybody I know. And not just because of the major trigger warnings.
A mystery about a missing girl told partially by each of the titular members of the pack. It is also told in plural narrative when more than two of the girls are present in a place or scene. Which is a fascinating way to look into the group think in a closed high control religious group.
As you see things on three levels. What the girls as a whole know they should think and do. What the girls communicate to each other and those outside the group when they are more free to think for themselves. And how the group then works together to integrate the individual knowledge into their religious doctrine.
As I've seen said in other recs, I don't think the fairly banal mystery took away from what the author was trying to explore here. But I also don't think I'd go you know that mystery was just too good it took away from the point of the narrative setup if it had been more twisty.
Wolfpack Book
Wolfpack Audiobook