If you’re not okay with romance between people of the same gender then please move along. Yes, this is a LGBT+ and you should be made aware of that. This is, as mentioned, revealed mostly through flashbacks that the narrator can’t fully comprehend, as she’s too deep and involved in it, and leaves the readers to speculate until the very end.Īddressing some of the other tags above, specifically LGBT+ and feminism. Without going too much into the actual meat of this story she tries to escape, make friends with patients, and figure out who did this to her and why. There she meets various patients, male figureheads on power trips, and a very kind nurse named Eliza.
Due to a set of unfortunate circumstances the narrator in fact ends up in an insane asylum called Wildthorn. Too much reading and learning can lead to insanity and mental illness. She wants to be a doctor and in fact a new University of medicine has opened in London, England for women, but many people around her don’t believe that women should do more than marry, have children, and run a household. Wildthorn follows a 17-year old girl who is unconventional for her Victorian Era. The flashbacks add continuously to the story as it evolves, but you don’t get the full story, only hints of it, until part three when it’s all revealed. The actual narrative is a flip-flop between flashbacks in bold and current setting and events. It’s broken into three major story “arcs” easily broken down by England into three major parts with an epilogue. It’s a page turner indeed and often hard to put down in between scenes. After the first day though, my reading slowed down and it ended up taking me exactly a week to finish, not too shabby for 350 pages. The first day I went through the first 120 pages, mostly full of an intermixing of flashbacks and current setting and events. For those of you who follow me on tumblr you know I was torn between reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane or Wildthorn (I will read both I was just torn about order.) I decided to read Wildthorn. Love is the key.” I was hooked line and sinker and picked it up. A corset lacing on the front of a YA novel called Wildthorn with the tagline… “Treachery locks her away. Why this book? I was actually looking for the next in the Tiger’s Curse series when it caught my eye on the bookshelf at the library. So instead you guys get some photographs from the victorian era of some lovely lesbian ladies. If you are okay with LGBT+ expect a great summer YA read.įirst off there is a severe lack of imagery of this book! Tumblr, dA and general Google searches brought up nothing.
You won’t enjoy this book at all, even if you enjoyed The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Let me start off this review by saying if you’re opposed to LGBT+ stop reading now.
Genre: Romance, Historical Fiction, Drama, Adventure, LGBT+, Feminist Photo courtesy of viola-goes-to-hollywood on tumblr
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