Book Review: Wicked Girls

The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Wow.
This book is amazing, and tackles the very controversial.
In half a day three little girls all under the age of 12 meet for the first time and by the end of the day one is dead. Bel and Jade are 11 and have never met before, but they are hauled through the court system when it is discovered that they killed 4 year old Chloe. They are reformed and given new identities to keep them safe and are never to see each other or their families again.
25 years later in a little seaside town girls are being murdered and Bel and Jade meet again by chance, now Amber and Kirsty.
The book is very well written and the fact that the aurthor is also a journalist probably helps a lot with writting Kirsty's new life as a freelance journalist.
As we switch POVs and read the story of Amber and Kirsty's new lives unfold we are also taken back every few chapters to read about the afternoon that started it all for them.
The story of the murdered girls in the present is in the background of the story, its just something that is going on and is the reason they see each other again. The murderer is a little pradictable but is not actually the focus of the story so it doesn't matter so much, and the story continues after the crime is solved.
Perhaps the most confronting part of the book is the last few chapters, I really didn't know how I felt about how it ended but felt my eyes welling up.

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