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Title details for The Lilies by Quinn Diacon-Furtado - Available

The Lilies

by Quinn Diacon-Furtado
Vico Ortiz
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One of Us Is Lying meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder in this don't-dare-to-look-away dark academia thriller that explores how secrets can rot an institution—and the people who uphold it—from the inside out.

Everyone wants to be a Lily.

At Archwell Academy, it's the ticket to a successful future. But like every secret society, there is something much darker beneath the surface ... sometimes girls disappear.

When four Archwell students find themselves trapped in a time loop, they must relive their worst memories, untangling the Lilies' moldering roots and unraveling the secrets at the core of their school ... before they destroy their futures forever.

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    April 30, 2024

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780063318229
      • File size: 256397 KB
      • Duration: 08:54:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      An outstanding ensemble delivers this dark fantasy audiobook. When a student goes missing from Archwell Academy, four other students become trapped in a time loop, reliving their darkest memories and gathering clues to find out what happened to their missing classmate. Vico Ortiz voices Drew in a sarcastic yet upbeat voice. They are the only nonbinary student at an all-girls school. Angel Pean portrays Blythe, one of the few Black students, with heightened anxiety from panic attacks. Karla Serrato voices Ver with righteous pride, perfectly portraying the radical activist and artist. Gail Shalan depicts Rory, the chancellor's tense daughter, who is an addict. Shalan also voices Charlotte, a ghost from the past, in a haunting cadence. Where the written prose doesn't differentiate the characters, the varied cast enhances listeners' understanding. A.K.R. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
    • Booklist

      April 15, 2024
      Grades 9-12 In Diacon-Furtado's timely thriller, four teens seek to escape a time loop in which they are forced to relive the night of their worst memory. Archwell Academy, an elite all-girls prep school founded in the 1950s "for girls to have a place to thrive away from the world of men," isn't always the safe place it claims to be. Nonbinary student Drew drowns under constant microaggressions. Ver� expresses her disgust with outdated school policies with activist graffiti. Blythe struggles to perform Black excellence while suppressing PTSD. Rory uses drugs to cope with being the chancellor's perfect daughter. Trapped during a lockdown, these students realize their roles in a missing student's disappearance on the night of her initiation into the Lilies, Archwell's secret society. Diacon-Furtado's debut is a compellingly paced queer thriller with four unreliable narrators determined to keep their secrets, until the time loop created by the Lilies' magic forces them to share, reflect, and atone. Though convoluted and sometimes lacking in subtlety, this mix of mystical, psychological, and suspense will satisfy a variety of readers.

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    • Kirkus

      April 1, 2024
      Four queer teenagers are stuck in an infinite time loop that taps into their collective worst moment. The question of what really happened to Charlotte Vanderheyden at the Lilies Society's Founder's Night initiation lies at the heart of this convoluted mystery, which is told from the perspectives of four Archwell Academy seniors: Rory Archwell, Blythe Harris, Ver� Mart�n, and Drew Simmons. A lockdown drill finds the four teenagers trapped together in a closet and caught in a time loop that forces them to relive the initiation over and over again, even though neither Drew nor Ver� are Lilies. Further complicating matters, each one is holding on to secrets of their own. Rory and Blythe, legacy students and former lovers, played key roles at the initiation. Charlotte and Drew (who uses they/them pronouns) were roommates. Ver� is an activist who creates radical disruption under the persona of Malcriada, and her most recent artwork portrays Chancellor Archwell (yes, Rory's mother) as a TERF. The frostiness among the racially diverse group thaws as they band together and discover that they share a common--and disturbing--history. The more they reveal, the closer they get to discovering what really happened to Charlotte--and maybe even other initiates. While the story's underlying premise importantly confronts generational trauma and repeating patterns, and the explorations of race, queerness, and exclusion are thoughtful, the novel struggles with the tenuous portrayal of time looping. A complex story sidelined by a confusingly executed paranormal element. (Paranormal mystery. 13-18)

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