Oh. My. God. This book was a terrifying roller coaster. I hate roller coasters. I don’t hate metaphorical roller coasters. *SCREAMING*I finished this in under 24 hours. A lot under 24 hours. I read this in 20 hours and 9 of those hours were sleeping. I’ve never done that. This book was so entertaining I love it but I can’t buy the next one until July 23 but that’s fine because no crazy cliffhanger. And what genre is this supposed to be.

4.5 Stars!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫"Demonstrate your value to those in attendance by showing how appealing a beautiful, obedient girl can be. Hold your tongue. Bat your eyes. Smile. Be best."Just imagine for a minute if.... the dark and sadistic world of West World....AND Handmaid's Tale....HAD A BABY..... it would be something like- Girls With Sharp Sticks!! In Girls With Sharp Sticks, we are thrown into a world that seems to be on the edge of a New Wave of Dystopia. While the normal world still goes on out

Only beautiful things have value And I was right; Goodreads spoiled the entire book for me. I don’t really how to feel about that and what to do. Saying that girls with sharp sticks was like Westworld meets The Handmaid's Tale was like saying this is a book about (view spoiler)[ Feminism, oppressed women and Robots (hide spoiler)] and that’s exactly what the book was about. You know it’s not that hard to put one and one together and to get two as a resultFor the first time ever, I wen

2.5 stars (half star added for the cover)I thought this book had an interesting premise and touched upon important topics like women's rights and equality. Unfortunately, the plot was moving at such a slow pace that I was thinking of DNF-ing the book after the first quarter. Even though the 'big twist' is not revealed until the very end, you can pretty much guess where the story is headed quite early on. In the end, I'm glad I persevered and finished the book, but I won't be continuing with the

Here's to the book with one of the worst attempt at feminism I have ever scene first place of course, still belongs to the garbage that is From Blood and AshWelcome to my very chaotic review! Good luck making sense of it! Can you tell I'm salty?? and I will probably be like this for the rest of the reviewI've seen so much hype around this book, literally everyone loves it and says it's such a great book that deals with feminism, and I'm just sitting here not seeing this at all. The Girls of Inno...

‘the handmaids tale’ meets ‘replica’ in this feminist sci-fi tale that the YA genre needs. i adore suzanne young. i think her ‘the program’ series is one of the most creative and relevant stories, so i knew the idea/concept of this new series wouldnt disappoint. without wanting to give away anything important, its refreshing to see so many aspects of a social issue described and personified. i appreciated how this explored womens rights, combating misogyny, and the ethics (or lack, thereof) of g...

Many thanks to Lauren at Simon & Schuster Children's Books for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review Girls with kind RAZOR hearts.Open your eyes, my father said.That day I was born.You will be sweet, he promised THREATENED.You will be beautifulYou will obey FIGHT BACK.And then he I told me MYSELFAbove allYou will have a kind RAZOR heart.For that, they will love FEAR you.They will protect REVERE youThey will keep RUN FROM you.Because you belong to them NO ONE.So be a girl to m...

Life at Innovations Academy seems great to Mena and the other girls: the men might be controlling and expect very high standards from each of the young women, but that's normal, isn't it? And if one of the girls were to step out of line, a punishment would be expected, because that's just how life is for 'exemplary' girls like Mena. Boarding school setting, men being trash, and girls loving and supporting other girls: if you didn't already guess, I was super here for this one as soon as I he

4.5 Stars!I always adore Suzanne Young's writing because her books are imaginative, dark, and always completely unique. When I saw Girls With Sharp Sticks I knew that I needed it and most of all, I knew that I was in for quite the treat and quite the ride. Girls With Sharp Sticks is like the school for Stepford Wives. Where they are grown and cultivated and...well brainwashed. It was horrifyingly fascinating and I couldn't get enough of it with, after each chapter, things started to get clearer

5 disturbing, breathtaking, irritating stars! This book is definitely a combination of Ira Levin’s Stepford Wives and Michael Crichton’s Westworld. It’s an inspirational example of dystopian thriller! I held my breath, bite my nails, cursed the characters but I couldn’t put it down as if my eyes and hands were glued to the book. It was so exciting, exhausting and definitely nerve-recking experience but interestingly I enjoyed it so much! Especially the last twist was memorable! You may foresee,

4.5 ⭐️A thrilling, horrifying and unique feminist sci-fi/dystopian/mystery book! "Some of the prettiest flowers have the sharpest thorns."Mena and her friends are pupils at Innovations Academy, a boarding school for girls, but something is not quite right there...The girls start to realise that there are many dark secrets, and that nothing is as it seems.I lovvvvved this audiobook! Caitlin Davies was an excellent narrator, conveying such emotion, suspense and tension. She had me so hooked from e...

Thank you to Simon & Schuster and Suzanne Young for sending me a finished copy of this book. I was obviously mistakenly put on a list of cool people to receive this book but I'm not mad. I'm super excited to read this!!!

This book was probably exactly what my reading slump needed, i flew through it and enjoyed it immensely. This book doesn't have the most surprising twist, in fact i saw it coming from a mile off, but that's not to say it was a bad twist. I actually think the twist was really well done and i enjoyed the story more because of it.(how many times can i say twist in this review?!)

A new Dystopian, Sci-fi thriller series from Suzanne YoungI'm a sucker for any setting featuring a private boarding school or academy. This story is set in an elite all-girls school called, " Innovations Academy" .  There is much more going on than meets the eye. Report cards measure beauty, compliance, poise, decorum and an attitude of obedience. You get the picture.Every student is beautiful and has a "sponsor", the professors are creepy and the head of staff is called " the guardian " and...

There are red roses as far as I can see, beautiful and lonely.Lonely because its only them-all together, but apart from the other flowers. Isolated.Girls with Sharp Sticks (Girls with Sharp Sticks, #1)by Suzanne YoungMy review:Before I even begin, thanks Monica! You recommended this and it was a heck of a read.This had been on my TBR for ages. I'd had bad luck with Dystopian before. It seemed after Divergent and Hunger Games. many series I read just did not click with me. This did.And I am not s...

Re read June 20205★I enoyed it as much - if not more - thannthe first time around.Woah. I loved this one. It was so edgy, so wtf is going on in this school, how are the girls corrected and taught, and so aware of women rights! Amazing lecture. Does anybody know when the 2nd one is comig out?Vid review here https://youtu.be/VYMrbUMbEqc on November, 13rd, 2019

Okay, so this is going to be more of a warning than a review but I’m hoping it will give you a different reading experience than the one I had. The book itself is amazing and I cannot wait for the sequel. However, I’d seen marketing that compared this book to very well known TV series, a movie and a book, and armed with those names I was easily able to predict the most important spoilers in this book before I began reading. So, my warning is this: Stay well away from marketing, reviews that may

Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young is the first book of a new young adult science fiction fantasy series by the same name. Really this first book of the series is a bit o of genre stew as it has a bit of dystopian vibe, a bit of romance and can also be quite thrilling as the story unfolded.Philomena “Mena” is one of the girls attending Innovations Academy, an elite and somewhat secretive boarding school where girls are graded more on looks and manners than academics. When out on a field tr...

Disclaimer: This book was sent to me by the publisher, Simon and Schuster: Simon Pulse, for an honest review. Opinion: Girls with Sharp Sticks is a YA Fiction with a message that is most certainly, non-fiction. You’re not leaving here without a few stab wounds to your heart and soul, so get those bandages ready. Innovations Academy breeds obedient, beautiful girls. They are taught to set a table in Modern Manners, how to speak and act formally in Social Graces Etiquette, to keep their figures in...

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟"WHEN GOOD GIRLS GO BAD AND WILD" It feels so GOOD to rate a book 5-stars and add it to my top favorites after a series of 3 or 4-star books! I wasn't expecting to like this one so much that I'm ordering the next book, oh yes! Read 75% of this book in one day. Stayed up until 2.30 am last night.The girls at Innovations Academy are beautiful, young, well-behaved. They're being watched 24/7 by the Guardian, a creepy doctor, the principal and his wife (also creepy), so they "can" get an excell...