Sawkill Girls
- Suzie B
- Aug 10, 2019
- 3 min read
About the Book
Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep.
He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep.
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.
Suzie's Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Note: This is a review I wrote for Sawkill Girls immediately after finishing it back in November 2018
Oh. My. Goodness. This book is so good!!! I was actually super hesitant to start it because I thought that it was just a horror/suspense/mystery novel, which is not at all my usual jam. And then I started it. On the surface, it is the genres I just mentioned, but if you dig a little deeper… Dear lord. This is not a novel for the faint of heart. This is not a novel for those weary of change or new ideas. This is not a novel for those who know who they are and are content to stay that way. This is a novel for people whose souls burn with an unending fire; a novel for those who long for a different, better world; a novel for those who are searching desperately for a sense of self. It is full of mystery and intrigue and characters who you know you should hate, but you love anyway. Add to that the amount of diversity within each of the three main characters and the kick-butt feminism radiating throughout the entire plot? Suddenly you have a new 5 star read!
I think one of my favorite things about this book was just how extremely bi Marion (one of the three main characters) was, because SAME. She may well have been my favorite POV to read purely for that reason alone. I can count on my fingers the number of books I’ve read where a main character is bi, and I’m lowkey bitter about that fact because we need more bi representation. I am, however, proud to say that Claire Legrand makes the list thrice! First with Furyborn, and now with Sawkill Girls. (And later with Winterspell, because Clara is 100% bi and no one can convince me otherwise.)
When I first read the synopsis of this book, I 100% thought that Zoey was going to be my favorite of the three, but I was so wrong. I think she actually ended up being my least favorite! (That being said, I would still do anything to protect her and keep her happy. I just love Marion and Val even more.) All three of the girls were so amazing and I love them all so much, even though one of them has done some things that are absolutely terrible (but they are understandable, and I really can’t blame her for them).
One last thing. I’m not sure what, exactly, caused this, but whenever I was reading Sawkill, there was a sort of energy that just jolted through me at random points. I loved it, it was amazing, but it also left me jittery and unable to sit still even long after I had put it down. It was almost as if this book had put electricity directly into my veins, and it stayed there right up until the moment I finished the final page. It made my heart beater faster, it quickened my pulse, it caused everything around me to look and feel sharper. Oh, and it made me bounce. A lot. I had a meeting at Bookmarks the evening before I finished the book, and no less than six people asked me how much caffeine I had had (the answer was none at all). I don’t know when the last time I had a book affect me in such a way, and I doubt I’ll find another like it any time soon. Please read this book, you will not regret it.
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