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Flawless Girls

Anna-Marie McLemore

Ages 14–18

Readers rate it 4.3 (3 on Hardcover)

214 pages · Released May 28, 2024

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This is a sophisticated YA thriller exploring themes of autonomy, family loyalty, and resistance to social control at an elite finishing school. The mystery involves potential murder and psychological manipulation, creating sustained tension and dread, but violence is not graphic or frequent. The protagonist's Latina identity and family dynamics are central to the story, and LGBTQ+ themes appear present though not dominant. It's best suited for older teens who enjoy literary YA with darker themes.

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The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society—brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionable grandmother who couldn’t care less about which fork goes where. But their grandmother also knows the standards that two Latina young ladies will be held to, so she secures them two coveted places at the Alarie House, a... The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society—brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionable grandmother who couldn’t care less about which fork goes where. But their grandmother also knows the standards that two Latina young ladies will be held to, so she secures them two coveted places at the Alarie House, a prominent finishing school that turns out first ladies, princesses, and socialites. Younger sister Isla is back home within a day. She refuses to become one of the eerily sweet Alarie girls in their prim white dresses. Older sister Renata stays. When she returns months later, she’s unfailingly pleasant, unnervingly polite, and, Isla discovers, possibly murderous. And the same night she returns home, she vanishes. As their grandmother uses every connection she has to find Renata, Isla re-enrolls, intent on finding out what happened to her sister. But the Alarie House is as exacting as it is opulent. It won’t give up its secrets easily, and neither will a mysterious, conniving girl who’s either controlling the house, or carrying out its deadly orders. Tautly written, tense, and evocative, this is a stunning YA novel by award-winning and critically acclaimed author Anna-Marie McLemore.

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  • Young Adult Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Young Adult
  • LGBTQ
  • Dystopian

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