Author: Kim Ligget
Publication Date: 8 October 2019
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Page count: 416
Reading Method: Physical
Synopsis:
No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden.
In Garner County, girls are banished for their sixteenth year to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage.
But not all of them will make it home alive.
Tierney James dreams of a better life―but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that there’s more to fear about the grace year than the brutal elements and the poachers in the woods.
Their greatest threat may very well be each other.
With sharp prose and gritty realism, Kim Liggett’s The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.
Review:
I have a lot to say about this one but not much of that can be done without massive spoilers. What I will say is that this book had so much potential and fell a bit flat for me. I was interested throughout and the story had potential to be really great, but it just didn’t hit the way I thought it was going to. After a bit of conversation and consideration, I’m actually lowering my initial rating of this one.
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