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Brutes

By: Dizz Tate
Narrated by: Eleanor McCormick
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Publisher's summary

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story about the crucible of girlhood, from a writer of rare and startling talent

We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it in our bones.

In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, Dizz Tate captures the violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the "we" of young friendship, and the moment it is broken forever.

©2023 Dizz Tate (P)2023 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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i think i might need to read this one again?

overall, this is an interesting read! i would recommend it to anyone who likes a24 films, as it has the same kind of subtle creepiness revealed in mundane plot lines. i will say the plot got a tad bit fuzzy in certain areas; definitely don’t zone out or you’ll be left playing catch up. overall worth the time, though.

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Brilliant window into a specific young woman’s mind

This book is incredible, heartbreaking, gut wrenching. It left me almost in tears on numerous occasions. My heart broke for these girls again and again.

The recording is really soft, meaning the volume is very low. The performance is fine. It’s just too bad there’s not a way to fix a technical flaw like this I had to listen with both my earbuds in and the volume turned up all the way. This is the quietest audiobook I have ever listened to.

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No idea what was happening at any time

Still not sure I know what even happened in this book. Didn’t make it clear when they went forward in time, too many characters to keep track of, what happened still unclear to me.

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