NOTE: Thank you to a friend who shared her Goodreads ARC.
Fans of Suzanne Young's series The Program will definitely be interested in this new series. GIRLS WITH SHARP STICKS features girls from Innovations Academy. They are being groomed for a future life as wives and companions. Their lives are rigidly controlled and if they deviate from expected behavior, they are subjected to impulse control therapy.
In the time Mena has been at the academy she has become close friends with some of the girls. She isn't fond of the Guardian who chaperones the girls on outings and hovers over them as they attend classes and meals. He visits their rooms every night with the required vitamins each girl must take.
When Lennon Rose, a particularly close friend of Mena's, is suddenly withdrawn from the school, Mena questions the story they are given about her family's financial problems. Lennon Rose had been there one minute and was gone the next. She never said goodbye and when Mena checked her room, she found the girl's shoes still sitting next to the bed. Mena also found a book of poems. When she shares them with the other girls, they all begin to doubt that the leaders of the academy have their best interests in mind.
Strange vitamins, unusual therapy sessions, dietary restriction, and limited access to family members account for just a few of the odd goings on at Innovations Academy. Mena and her friends are determined to find out just exactly what is happening to them at the hands of their supposed protectors.
In the time Mena has been at the academy she has become close friends with some of the girls. She isn't fond of the Guardian who chaperones the girls on outings and hovers over them as they attend classes and meals. He visits their rooms every night with the required vitamins each girl must take.
When Lennon Rose, a particularly close friend of Mena's, is suddenly withdrawn from the school, Mena questions the story they are given about her family's financial problems. Lennon Rose had been there one minute and was gone the next. She never said goodbye and when Mena checked her room, she found the girl's shoes still sitting next to the bed. Mena also found a book of poems. When she shares them with the other girls, they all begin to doubt that the leaders of the academy have their best interests in mind.
Strange vitamins, unusual therapy sessions, dietary restriction, and limited access to family members account for just a few of the odd goings on at Innovations Academy. Mena and her friends are determined to find out just exactly what is happening to them at the hands of their supposed protectors.
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