The Wicked Remain

by Laura Pohl

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

The sequel to one of our former YA Monthly Picks, The Grimrose Girls, The Wicked Remain will delight anyone who loves fairy tale twists and dark academia as the fairy tale inspired deaths at the Grimrose School continue. While the four girls have discovered what the curse is, they still must figure out exactly how to break it and stop the deaths. Both empowering and haunting, this book is certain to draw readers in and leave them shook with the end of this duology.

At Grimrose Académie, the fairy-tale deaths continue. And unless the curse is broken, one of the girls could be next.

Nani, Yuki, Ella, and Rory have discovered the truth about the curse that's left a trail of dead bodies at Grimrose. But the four still know nothing of its origins, or how to stop the cycle of doomed fates.

And each girl harbors her own secret. One is learning why she was brought to the school. One struggles to keep her new and deadly power under control. One knows exactly how much time she has left.

And one, trying to escape her dark destiny, will come even closer to fulfilling it.

Can the girls change their own stories and break the curse? Or must one of them die to end it forever?

Perfect for fans of:

• Cinderella is Dead and GRIMM
• Dark Academia
• Fairytale Retellings
• LGBTQ Rep

Media Buzz for The Grimrose Girls:

• Buzzfeed called it "a book definitely worth picking up"
• One of Book Riot's Top New YA Paperbacks for Fall
• A Buzzfeed Top LGBTQ+ YA Book to Devour
• A Culturess Thrilling New YA Release
• Featured on Tor as a new Young Adult SFF
• A Barnes & Noble OUR MONTHLY PICK for November 2021!!

Praise for New York Times Bestseller The Grimrose Girls:

"Enthralling... Fans of empowering feminist fairy-tale retellings will love this." —Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW

"Darkly haunting and achingly romantic." —Ashley Poston, national bestselling author of Geekerella 

"Sink your teeth into this story and let it carry you through the woods." —Roseanne A. Brown, New York Times bestselling author of A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728228907
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	11/01/2022
Series:	The Grimrose Girls , #2
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	16,670
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.50(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Laura Pohl is a Brazilian writer who lives in São Paulo. She likes writing messages in caps lock, quoting Hamilton, and obsessing about Star Wars. When not taking pictures of her dog, she can be found discussing alien conspiracy theories. She is the author of The Grimrose Girls and The Last 8 duology. Visit her online at onlybylaura.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Pohl’s latest bursts open the doors of multiple fairy tales, here retold with a feminist, empowering focus on the friendships between the girls... A fitting ending to a great duology" — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2022-08-17
The girls from Grimrose Académie must break a fairy-tale curse before death comes for them in this follow-up to 2021’s The Grimrose Girls.

Ever since friends Nani, Rory, Ella, and Yuki discovered there is a curse at the heart of Grimrose that has killed many girls over the years and that may yet take their own lives, they have started their own investigation on how to break the cycle of death and destruction. As the girls recover from the recent events—brought about by their own hands—that ended with another dead body, they each must figure out how their own lives fit into a presumably prescribed narrative. But as their deadline looms ever closer, the secrets they are keeping are opened wide, and the balance between life and death hangs on one fateful choice. Pohl’s latest bursts open the doors of multiple fairy tales, here retold with a feminist, empowering focus on the friendships between the girls, how far they are willing to go for one another, and their individual journeys to determine their own destinies. While the pacing suffers from a slight slump in the middle, the novel fulfills on its own promising conceit with a cast of characters featuring diversity in ethnicity, disability, sexuality, and mental health.

A fitting ending to a great duology. (Fantasy. 14-18)

Kirkus Reviews