"The Handmaid's Tale meets The Craft. Readers will be riveted by Legrand's fierce female characters and their harrowing emotional journey." -- Publishers Weekly "Legrand successfully brings a supernatural gruesomeness to her exploration of morality and agency." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Slow-burn horror meets a queer coming-of-age story, with compassionately explored themes of feminism, grief, trauma, faith, and abuse. A YA fantasy complement to Naomi Alderman's The Power; fans of Legrand will find this an interesting new approach, as will readers of Rory Power and House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland." -- School Library Journal "Legrand crafts a fiercely unsubtle feminist fantasy that takes on the patriarchy and the toxicity of hate." -- Booklist "Entertaining." -- Kirkus Reviews Praise for Sawkill Girls: "Through this dank, atmospheric, and genuinely frightening narrative, Legrand weaves powerful threads about the dangerous journey of growing up female.
an intensely character-driven story about girls who support each other, girls who betray each other, and girls who love each other in many complicated ways. Strange, eerie, and unforgettable." -- ALA Booklist (starred review) "Legrand's lush and pensive prose matches the murky, dangerous, and beautiful island setting. Rich and earthy horror." -- School Library Journal (starred review) "This atmospheric, Gothic-flavored chiller, which mingles elements of dark fairy tales and outright horror. includes an asexual character and a beautifully wrought queer romance, [and] focuses on the power of female friendship and what it means to pit women against one another in fiction and in life." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Cinematically, gorgeously creepy and horrific, sliding between breathlessly suspenseful and disturbingly grotesque." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) "Legrand accomplishes the kind of slow-building tension and mounting horror that will give readers night terrors.
Read this book, then lock it in the freezer." -- Shelf Awareness "Part spine-chilling horror story and part coming-of-age lesbian romance. If you are looking for something to scare you awake at night, this is the book for you." -- Kirkus Reviews "Claire Legrand tells an eerie, feminist horror story that's perfect for reading close to Halloween." -- Bustle "With prose as fierce and uncompromising as its three main characters, SAWKILL GIRLS is a fresh and unflinching exploration of female friendship wrapped in a spine-tingling page-turner. Claire Legrand doesn't hold back--and you won't be able to put this book down." -- Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie "Reader, hang on for dear life. Sawkill Girls is a wild, gorgeous, and rich coming-of-age story about complicity, female camaraderie, and power.
" -- Sarah Gailey, author of River of Teeth "An eerie, atmospheric assertion of female strength." -- Mindy McGinnis, author of The Female of the Species "Old-school horror meets fresh, female-forward fury. Claire Legrand masterfully paints this island world of terror with a blood-soaked brush." -- Elana K. Arnold, author of National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of.