The Society For Soulless Girls

Published June 14, 2022 by Harper Collins.

ISBN:
978-1-4052-9693-9
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Full disclosure: I very nearly DNF'd this book about halfway through. Decided to keep at it and by the end I kind of wish I'd stopped when I initially wanted to.


The slow build of this one is mindnumbingly slow. For all of the otherworldly weirdness the characters experience, the story itself is dull. 


It's meant to be a reimagining of the Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. The author examines society's abhorence of women's anger and the measures taken to supress and villify it. This premise is so appealing. I was looking forward to this commentary in the setting of dark academia. 


Not only did it fall flat, every interesting plot piece was handled so hamfistedly that I was left with the sense of wasted time.


What a bummer. 

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