Review: The Girls on the Hill

The Girls on the Hill by Alison Claire Grey
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

An extraordinary psychological thriller that literally kept me guessing throughout, tossing twists and turns and convolutions, unreliable narrators (multiple), and denouements and conclusions totally unexpected, yet fittingly interwoven with the plot and characterizations, THE GIRLS ON THE HILL was a one-sitting read for me as I literally could not ignore it. I had to read it through to the end and loved every precious moment of it. On the surface, the novel focuses on five girls attending Martha Jefferson College in Staunton, Virginia (the college on the hill) between Fall 2000 and graduation 2003, but really it is a novel of character, of past, present, future, of good and evil and what happens when good people don't intervene to stop evil, of the depths of depravity to which some humans can sink and not falter. Each and every character is finely delineated (although they are unreliable narrators in that they don't tell all they know, and indeed they "don't know all" themselves in order to tell).

I cannot highly enough recommend this novel. If you love the novels of Robyn Harding, you certainly will love THE GIRLS ON THE HILL.

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