This was just not for me. I'm more than willing to suspend disbelief when it comes to a thriller, but in this case there were too many one-dimensional characters, cliche upon cliche in the storylines, plenty of plot-holes and factual inaccuracies galore. There's a good story in there, but this was disappointing.

I hugely enjoyed Phoebe Morgan’s last novel so was extremely grateful to receive an advance copy of this book.
I love the writing style, the was little crumbs of information are trailed, the suspension hanging in the air and the way the story is crafted. Great read.

Four friends.
A luxurious retreat in Africa.
A deadly reunion.


My first 5-star book of the year, yay!
What can I say? This book was as wild as the title suggest.
It was fast-paced, full of suspense, and it had me madly turning the pages, keeping me on the edge of my seat all the time.
I literally had to force myself to put it away when life got in the way of reading.
I usually find multiple perspectives confusing, but fortunately, this wasn't the case. However, the narration was constructed in a certain way, and for me, it gave the identities of the victims away.
Apart from this, though, it was a brilliant read with a great twist, and I highly recommend it.

Great read & my first by Phoebe Morgan - loved the characters and was intrigued to find out what was going to happen next - fast paced and kept my attention all the way from start to finish,hard to put down!

Felicity has invited Grace, Hannah and Alice to her birthday party in Botswana.
They had a falling out two years ago and the girls think that maybe Felicity wants to make up.
This is a story about revenge that has a duel timeline and is told by multiple characters.
I failed to connect with the characters and I found the story unbelievable in parts.
Thank you to NetGalley and HQ for my e- copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley and HQ for providing me a copy of the Wild Girls to review.
I really liked the book. I read it within 24 hours of starting it.
I loved the idea of a group of friends being invited to Botswana for a Birthday Party was unique. I would love for someone to give me an all expenses trip to Botswana.
I enjoyed the way the chapters were written with each friends perspective being told. I did feel like I didn't particularly form a bond with any of the characters. Saying this I didn't like Felicity's character.
I don't want to spoil the story for anyone.

This was a very fast paced book which had me not wanting to put the book down until I finished.

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Well this was a thriller of a read!

I just love books like this one, no messing around, just straightaway you are brought into the characters world, the settings are set and action is put into motion.

I found the book to be really easy to read and follow. The author tells the story from multiple perspectives; depicting the complicated and fractured friendships of the characters while subtly dropping clues and twists along the way. In doing this, it makes the story move along at a rate of knots, twisting and turning and doesn’t let up even down to the last page. The characters were stereotypical of girly friendships but this worked well within the narrative of the story and I found them all to be relatable.

I liked how the author used a more unusual setting for the story but did feel I would of liked just a little bit more in the way of detail and had more time spent there to build up the tension and mystery of what was going on.

Overall an excellent rollercoaster ride of a read! Not to be missed!!!

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This one is an #arcread so thanks to author #phoebemorgan #hqstories #netgalley for allowing me to read this one early!

Out April 29th

-Emily

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(4.5 Stars)

This is a great thriller and a super easy read. I got through this quite quickly. It sees a group of four friends reunite after they fell out of contact 2 years earlier due to the events of one night out. They all are invited to Felicity’s birthday in Botswana for a weekend of fun and a reunion, with hopes of fixing their broken friendship. But things don’t go as planned.

The characters in this are very interesting and all have different lives. I particularly liked the main character, Grace. I felt like I could relate to her. She feels like the outsider of the group, feeling like she is the one looking in and left out of the in jokes. The book is told through her first person perspective and third person through the perspectives of her friends.

It’s a lovely piece of escapism and I found myself invested in the characters and the story. The pace is well done and we get just enough subtle hints to keep the reader wanting to know more. There’s a dual timeline going on here - we switch between present day in Botswana and the night out in London 2 years ago that started it all.

My only wish was that we got more of the setting in the book. It’s set in Botswana, Africa, but we don’t get to hear much about the culture or the location.

The Wild Girls will be published on 29 April 2021.

Thank you to Net Galley and HQ for my advanced reader copy in exchange for my honest review.

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I was quite excited to read this book after seeing other reviews. However, I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I liked the description of Botswana and the lodges. The characters were interesting but not very likeable. Parts of the book were very unrealistic and unbelievable. The ending was a complete let down. I was just hoping for something more sinister but it failed to deliver.

A great tale to take you away from these bleak January evenings! Grace, Alice, Hannah and Felicity have been a tight-knit group of friends for as long as they can remember, sharing school secrets and drunken nights out. The story begins as all 4 of them have come adrift from one another, though we don't find out why for a long time.

Grace Alice and Hannah unexpectedly get plush invitations to Felicity's birthday party in Botswana, is it time for them all to let the past go and come together again? The book opens with the discovery of bodies in the luxury lodge in Botswana, so I think its safe to say it didnt go as planned

I really enjoyed reading it, a great way to escape - well told and with plenty of details being dropped in to keep you captivated

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the chance to read it

A Perfect Getaway.....?
A luxury lodge in sun drenched Botswana is the setting for this engaging suspense. Four friends, a celebration and what seems a perfect getaway. Or is it? Tension mounting read with well drawn characters, a good sense of atmosphere and impending doom! The plot base is, perhaps, a well trodden path particularly at present but that doesn’t detract from the entertainment this book provides. Some great escapism.

Four friends were close, once. They were inseparable, but now they are disant memories of incidents that they choose to bury deep. Out of nowhere an invitation has arrived for an extravagant birthday trip that has three ladies guessing at the motive of the sender. Are they forgiven for their secrets? With the hope that they can remake their bonds of friendship, The Wild Girls reunite but not all is what it seems?

With the different perspectives of the friends, Morgan has created a suspenseful drama that unfolds at a breakneck speed. It’s cleverly paced with the characters slowly peeling away the layers of their destructive secrets that tore their friendship apart versus the quickly evolving demise of the party, in more ways that one!

It’s imaginative and keeps you guessing right to the end. I loved it.

Phoebe Morgan’s latest book takes us on a trip to Botswana, where four friends are to be reunited.

The book starts in the present, but as the story unfolds, the timeline switches from past to present and is told from the viewpoints of Hannah, Alice and Grace.

The book is a real page Turner and the author creates a lot of suspense in her writing.

I enjoyed the way the book unveiled lots of secrets, twists and turns and the ending was fantastic. I did not see it coming!

This book is perfect for psychological thriller fans

Loved this book! Such an interesting premise for a story and it kept me gripped all the way through. I really wanted to know more about the characters' lives and how they all intertwined and loved the way it was told from the different characters' perspective.

A great book and one I would thoroughly recommend.

My first book by Phoebe Morgan and not my last (in fact now reading The Dollhouse!)

I have loved each of Phoebe Morgan's previous books and The Wild Girls is no exception. Set in Botswana, I really felt the heat and dust and the spooky atmosphere that was conjured up.

Three girlfriends, Grace, Hannah and Alice, are invited to the fourth, Felicity's, 30th birthday celebration in a game reserve. It's an all-expenses-paid trip and they decide to accept even though they haven't met up for two years, since Felicity introduced her boyfriend to the group. But when they arrive Felicity is nowhere to be seen.

Told from the point of view of each of the girls, this book has all the twists and turns expected from Ms Morgan and I'm sure her fans will enjoy it as much as I did. Many thanks to NetGalley and HQ for the opportunity to read and review The Wild Girls.

I was looking forward to reading this book - a friendship group that has fallen apart coming together for a special event , a special event and an exotic location!

The book is written from the viewpoints of all of the female characters and in my mind, they're all unreliable, and if there's nothing I love more, it's an unreliable narrator!

The book is tense and switches between present day and past events giving you an insight into the relationships in the novel.

I really enjoyed this and read it quite quickly, the short chapters are really pacey. I finished the book feeling very uneasy - but in a massively good way!

Such a great thriller. I read this quickly, it's one of those stories that you have to keep reading to unravel the story.

When estranged friends, Grace, Hannah and Alice receive and invitation to Felicity's birthday party in Botswana they aren't sure at first. But they all decide to go...... Is this a big mistake?

The four girls were always close, the 'wild girls' who went through everything together. Until that night when they all fell out. Now Felicity has invited the others to her birthday party in Botswana, and everyone hopes that this is the perfect opportunity to get their friendship back to how it was, as well as escape their everyday lives for a few days. But when the three girls arrive at the lodges in Botswana, Felicity is nowhere to be found and things don't seem right. None of the lodges have locks on them and strange notes appear. What is going on? As the girls realise they have no idea where they are or how to find help, things get worse... will any of them get out alive?

This was another brilliant book by Phoebe Morgan. The plot was thrilling, exciting and tense, all of the characters interesting, and the ending shocking. I like how we have chapters that explore that fateful night where the fall out happened and slowly see how it all led up to the current moment. With lots of secrets, shocks and twists and turns, I can't recommend this book enough.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of the book in return for my honest feedback.

‘ The wild girls’ was my first, but definitely not my last, read from Phoebe Morgan!

I was seduced into this great read by the exotic setting - a luxury safari lodge in beautiful Botswana, and the promise of a plot that seemed to satisfy my hunger for psychological fiction. Both these were delivered in abundance.

The plot revolves around a friendship group that seems to have fractured 2 years previously. The group having not been in contact with each other in the interim. 3 of the women unexpectedly receive a mysterious all expenses paid invite to Felicity’s 30th birthday party in the aforementioned exclusive location!

We learn quickly that not everyone will make it out alive, but I was pleased that it wasn’t particularly gruesome!

The book starts and ends with the current timeline, which initially piques curiousity as to what exactly happened to effectively terminate the friendships but gratifying in the second ‘part’ of the book the timeline switches to the events that occurred on a fateful night that reveals all!

To tick my final box we have a, (quite frankly outstanding!), twist at the end. I love this book - it doesn’t try to be pretentious or literary, it just delivers a fantastic story!

My thanks to Net galley, author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an advance copy.

Thank you to Netgalley for a ebook arc of The Wild Girls, and thank you to Phoebe Morgan herself for tracking it down when i couldnt find if. Lol.
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The Wild Girls is a mystery thriller with a sinister undertone that made me want to read more. The Wild Girls is set in Botswana where a group of four friends who have grown apart meet back up for Felicity's mini break birthday party. Grace, Hannah and Alice were treated to a all inclusive holiday to Deception valley Lodge in Botswana, where they were treated to luxury and finery. All their needs were taken care of, they were having a very good time until they discover Felicity hasnt turned up and isnt answering her phone... Dun, Dun, Dunnnnn.
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The characters are well written and what i enjoyed most was the characters anxieties - they had everyday relatable anxieties. You genuinely got the feel that these characters were like you and i. They could be your friend or your neighbour or someone you know. My only struggle was that they tended to merge into each other in my head. I struggled to remember who was Alice, who was Hannah and who was Grace. There was a lot of to and fro from past memories to present day and sometimes i failed to distinguish between the two. This adding to my confusion between characters.
Throughout the book there was a very sinister feeling of something is wrong and something is going to happen - and i loved that. The story also hinted that something had happened in the past which caused these girls to drift apart and i spent the majority of the book wondering what it was what was going to happen in the Lodge because of it.
The big finale and plot reveal felt a little rushed, id liked to have read more of the consequences and the relationship between the two remaining friends.
I also would have liked to have read more about Botswana - the people, the scenery the lifestyle. If we were not told it was in Botswana i could have easily imagined this had took part in the English country side or even a Centre Parcs. I think Covid may be the reason for this as travelling to Botswana for research during a pandemic is not wise. Regardless i very much enjoyed the story and the journey.

3.5 stars rounded up to 4