The main character, Tierney, refuses to conform to her society and the expectations of the girls’ grace year. The grace year marks the change from girl to woman and is spent separate from the rest of the community because of superstitions about the power of the “magic” possessed by young women of this age. While set in a far off world, T he Grace Year is a mirror of the cruelty young women can inflict upon each other in our own society. I started reading it at bedtime (always a mistake) and didn't want to stop, I tried to keep reading during breakfast with my three little ones (little progress made there), but then sat down to read a little more after getting home from the gym, and, two hours later, found myself finishing the book.Ĭomparisons have been made with The Grace Year and classics like The Handmaid's Tale and Lord of the Flies, and I'd add The Crucible to that list due to the impact of hysteria and mob mentality on the plot. Why I liked it: I've been binging on dystopian fiction, and while The Grace YearKim Leggitt fit right in with reads like The Initiation by Chris Babu and Divergent by Veronica Roth, it also stood apart as a book I could not put down. With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between. Their greatest threat may very well be each other.
It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life―a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. But not all of them will make it home alive.
That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. The basic plot from Amazon: No one speaks of the grace year.
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