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Savage Girl (2014)

by Jean Zimmerman(Favorite Author)

3.2 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0670014850 (ISBN13: 9780670014859)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: Hugo Delegate is the son of a wealthy, Gilded Age industrialist. He's an anatomy student at Harvard - gifted at dissection and anatomical drawings - but prone to bouts of "melancholia". On a trip out West, his parents adopt (buy) a "feral" child, a girl reputedly raised by wolves. They decide to turn Bronwyn into a proper debutante. Their experiment seems to be a rousing success - except that some men who venture too close to Bronwyn end up dead - horribly mutilated. Is Bronwyn's beauty and composure only a thin veneer over a savage killer? Could Hugo, with his skill with a scalpel and unrequited passion for his adopted "sister", somehow be involved?
review 2: This novel set in the 1870s describes how a decadently rich New York City family adopts an uncivi... morelized teen-aged girl who supposedly was raised by wolves and finds its attempt to Henry Higgins her into a society debutante complicated by a series of grisly murders. I appreciated the book’s historical detail -- Forty-Second Street glazed brown with horse manure in those pre-automobile days, etc. -- but grew weary of the first-person narrator, the family’s eldest son, a neurasthenic twit. Also, despite the novel’s 402-page length, the author tells too much and shows too little of how you turn a savage girl into an elegant lady. less

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