The Girls of No Return by Erin SaldinMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Publication Date: February 2012
Source: ARC from SWON's ROYAL interest group
Interest: Debut
Lida is not happpy about being sent to spend some time at the Alice Marshall School, a school set in the remote wilderness with the intention of rehabilitating troubled teen girls. She is not willing to get with the program and share what her "Thing" is, aka why she was was sent to the school. She tries to disappear into the background but finds that difficult to do when she finds herself torn between two girls who despise each other at first sight.
I was a little disappointed with this. There were a lot of reviews of it that mentioned how gripping and original it is. I didn't really see it. All the usual suspects were there: the lost and misunderstood main character, the tough girl, the girl that wants to be everyone's friend and the girl that is so cool that you know she's bad news.
I never really connected with Lida. She just seemed so weak and unable to stand up for herself - to the point of being annoying. Near the end of the book, she seemed to make a breakthrough and I was hoping that she would have some sort of "I am a worthwhile person" moment but, it never really happened.
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