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A review by hardcover_hazel
Girls of Little Hope by Sam Beckbessinger, Dale Halvorsen
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
"The living room is empty. Empty as a ditch a girl might have fallen into."
Girls of little hope had me intrigued. Three girls disappear into the woods and only two come back, covered in blood with no memory of what happened.
"All she knows for sure is that one of her best friends is missing, and the other wants her to lie about it"
We travel across different thoughts with each chapter the perspective of a range of characters. The missing girl, Kat, has diary entries from the past we follow along with.
"Sometimes it seems that's all getting older is: just a slow accumulation of damage"
This book is listed as horror fiction and the twist (and a scene or two with gore) is so. good. Please check the trigger warnings before reading as lots of blood tends to be mentioned 🩷
"Even the trees, she feels, are aware of her footsteps pressing the soil against their roots"
I didn't expect the twist. Starting out as a murder mystery, it expands into something more, something wild, that forever changes the town of Little Hope.
"Blood mixes with her saliva, creating a perfect map of her"
I loved this so much 🥰 thank you to Johnathan Ball Publishers for the giveaway I won with this book 🩷✨
Girls of little hope had me intrigued. Three girls disappear into the woods and only two come back, covered in blood with no memory of what happened.
"All she knows for sure is that one of her best friends is missing, and the other wants her to lie about it"
We travel across different thoughts with each chapter the perspective of a range of characters. The missing girl, Kat, has diary entries from the past we follow along with.
"Sometimes it seems that's all getting older is: just a slow accumulation of damage"
This book is listed as horror fiction and the twist (and a scene or two with gore) is so. good. Please check the trigger warnings before reading as lots of blood tends to be mentioned 🩷
"Even the trees, she feels, are aware of her footsteps pressing the soil against their roots"
I didn't expect the twist. Starting out as a murder mystery, it expands into something more, something wild, that forever changes the town of Little Hope.
"Blood mixes with her saliva, creating a perfect map of her"
I loved this so much 🥰 thank you to Johnathan Ball Publishers for the giveaway I won with this book 🩷✨
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Self harm, Violence, Blood, and Vomit
Moderate: Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Death of parent, and Murder