This YA dystopian book kept me engaged right from the beginning. It was like a mash up of Mean Girls, The Hunger Games, and The Handmaid’s Tale. I looked forward to reading it every day and couldn’t wait to find out how it ended.

Whatever critic first said the The Grace Year is like Hunger Games meets Handsmaid's Tale hit the nail on the head 100%. And dare I say, I liked this one more than it's comparisions. It has a very unique distopian twist, and still very scarily plausable. So much courage and resiliance shown in a creative and empowing novel.

Wow this story really had me turning the pages fast… I loved the concept. It was definitely interesting and the ending was so good. Recommend for sure!

This was unfortunately a two star read for me. I’m a huge fan of dystopian and feminist reads but this was just a let down. The premise immediately sucks you in but at the halfway mark I just lost interest.

I found The Grace Year to be a good book and would definitely recommend to dystopian fans. It's not my favorite of the genre but the beginning held my attention.

This book is definitely a captivating, gritty read. It has so much going for it as a feminist powerhouse novel. There is elements of horror and dystopian and really keeps you on the edge of your seat. You become very invested in the world and care about the outcome.

Not as I'd expected. This premise sounded perfect, but instead... it went to camp? I didn't get what I'd hoped for, at all. It is like it jumped chains or genres, or something. What it did was lose me. I wasn't happy about that. I was so interested till the time jumps lines. The plot skipped months and hunks. The outcome of their lives after the year of "grace" is awful! It's like they went from captive, to free, to what I just can't explain. I can't find the heroine being a hero of any sort. It was tragic. Maybe it was meant to be tragic, but at the end of the book I was really let down.

This is my honest review, and thank you to Net Galley for letting me see what I thought about this book.

This book was absolutely phenomenal. It was so different than anything I had expected. This book is pitched As Handmaids Tale meets Hunger Games and that description couldn’t be more perfect.

Go into this book with those two concepts in mind and you will be thrilled!

This book is a dystopian read in my opinion. It reminded me of for lack of a better comparison to The Hunger Games or even The Lord of the Flies. The Grace Year is when the young women turn 16 and are banished to the wild to purge them selves of their dangerous magic. Of course it's the magic that is said to seduce men, make men do bad things etc... It's very dark times in the wild, disturbing but keeps me turning the pages. I would recommend this book to fans of dark dystopian reads, it was an amazing time spent between the pages, gory at times but a great read!

I loved this book. I started it with very little in the way of expectations....finished it in one night because I could not stop reading it and then purchased copies for 2 of my favorite readers.
I didn't always like the characters but the story line kept my interest and I was left hoping (and perhaps anticipating) a sequel to hear more about how the world changes

I really liked this book! I was engaged every time I sat down to read it. I really liked the pacing of
the story and I loved the main character! I loved the sisterhood and family aspects of this book and that ending!!

I unfortunately DNF'ed this one!! It sounded so good, the cover was amazing so I wanted to fall in love with this, but it just felt heavy-handed to me, and there were quite a few things about it that bothered me. My main problem about it was the lack of intersectionality, every character was white-coded and there weren't any acknowledgment of queer folks

The Grace Year is unfortunately not for me. I had tried this book and set it down in hopes of one day coming back to it, but now it is time to mark as DNF.

A thrilling and creepy read. I was impressed by the atmosphere Liggett was able to generate. Memorable and terrifying.

I am torn between a 2.5 and 3. I was really excited by this book but ended up sitting with my copy as I feared it would not live up to my expectations. I hoped that with buzz dying down I could look at it with fresh eyes but I am still disappointed.

It has been compared to Handmaid’s Tale but definitely trends more to Lord of the Flies. It had a dream fever feel that stopped me from connecting with the story and I thought the relationships were poorly defined.

Thanks to Wednesday Books for the free book.
This book was intense. This dystopian world is violent and, yet, there are so many realistic scenes of what girls and young women go through in their time growing up. It did take a bit to get going, but once it does, you won't want to put it down until you reach the end. The author holds nothing back. There are so many unexpected things in this story, things I wish didn't have to happen, but they were the reason the story was so good. This is a book that I recommend going into without much, if any, knowledge. It is a journey full of wisdom and fierceness and change. But it's all at a realistic pace. It's a book I will be thinking about for such a long time to come, and I hope to revisit it one day in the future to see how relevant it still is and how, hopefully, some things are different.

I think this was a really interesting concept and I really liked the story, I just didn’t jive with the writing style as much.

Dark and gritty, this YA entry from Kim Liggett is also both haunting and gripping. I loved the main character, Tierney, and following her journey was incredibly satisfying. I didn't much like the world Tierney existed in, and I'm disappointed that in a novel that focused so much on sexuality and gender, there were no non-binary or trans characters, nor were such people even mentioned.

I did like the way Liggett used dialogue. Tierney never sounded too old or too young - both. common problems in YA writing.

I felt the book was well-paced until the end, which seemed a bit rushed.

I've often maintained that YA offers us some of the most interesting and provocative stories being written, and this was no exception.

This book was so good, and is easily one of the best YA spec fic thrillers I've ever read. I was a little fearful that it would be a victim of over-hype, but I didn't feel that way at all.

I was immediately sucked into the story—especially the premise of womanly magic and empowerment—and I couldn't stop reading once I started. Tierney's character is complex, as are the relationships portrayed, and I really enjoyed watching Tierney navigate (and seek to subvert) this flawed world.

I *do* wish we had gotten a little bit more at the end (it felt somewhat rushed), but I think that's more of a case of "it's me, not you" with this particular book. I also feel that, with a book so focused on gender and sexuality, there should have been inclusion of trans and non-binary characters, even if it's just to touch upon how they're treated in this world (not well at all, I would imagine). Needless to say, it did miss an opportunity there and considering that perspective, it could be read as exclusionary. However, it was still a very engaging and thought provoking read, overall!

Very interesting book! Loved the plot and loved the characters. Very brutal and feminist Lord of the Flies that we all need