Libba Bray
I really liked Going Bovine so was looking forward to this. Almost as strange, but largely unsatisfying. Bray sends teen beauty pageant contestants to a remote island after a plane crash. We have to see how they cope and adjust. I was hoping for a bit more Lord of the Flies. It is a bit too cheesy, too surface focused. We don't get to see any depth of development in the characters. We don't get substantial commentary on culture of women, war, or media (all of which are possible here). Instead, we slide along the surface with complex plot constructs that take too much time to allow us to settle in to any real thinking.
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