The Grace Year by Kim LiggettMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Teenage girls in a "Lord of the Flies" situation.
If I'd realized this was a YA dystopian novel, I wouldn't have bought it. Audible wouldn't let me sell it back so I ended up reading it and it was . . . okay, to an extent. There are a lot of sexual situations (not extremely graphic) but that tells you where YA is heading today. I find it frustrating and disappointing that literature for young people has become so brazen these days, but that's par for the course in our crumbling civilization.
Overall the plot was interesting to me. I hear there will be a movie. The main character, Tierney, lived in a dystopian earth world where crazy superstitions have become the common reality. The teen girls are accused (all of them) of having a "magic" so strong that they must be banished at the age of 16 to live in the woods in a group together. This is where the book resembles Lord of the Flies. The whole thing becomes quite disastrous.
I don't regret reading the book but............ well, I could never call it clean literature with all the violence and with the sexual situations. The book (audiobook) kept my interest and I finished it in just a few days.
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