Behind the Gates by Eva Gray

🩶Behind the Gates by Eva Gray🩶

Book one in the Tomorrow Girls series. 

Blurb: 

In a terrifying future world, four girls must depend on each other if they want to survive. Louisa is nervous about being sent away to a boarding school — but she’s excited, too. And she has her best friend, Maddie, to keep her company. The girls have to pretend to be twin sisters, which Louisa thinks just adds to the adventure!Country Manor School isn’t all excitement, though. Louisa isn’t sure how she feels about her new roommates: athletic but snobby Rosie and everything’s-a-conspiracy Evelyn. Even Maddie seems different away from home, quiet and worried all the time. Still, Louisa loves CMS — the survival skills classes, the fresh air. She doesn’t even miss not having a TV, or the internet, or any contact with home. It’s for their own safety, after all. Or is it?

My thoughts: 

This wasn’t the first time I’ve read this book, but it was still a cute, and fun read! Each book of the series has a different girl’s POV..and this first book was in Louisa’s POV. 

Louisa was just a great person overall. The other girls: Rosie, Evelyn, and Maddie were all different but they helped balance each other out.. with Rosie being more of the leader-y athletic type, Evelyn (she has MY NAME btw!) being the smart thinking type, and Maddie being the worried and kind type. Louisa is like the glue in her friendship circles. She tries to keep her friends together; and that was sort of relatable to me! It was very refreshing to see.🌻

The plot was cool; not super twisty or intricate, but had a nice basis for the story. 

And that ending was not an ending at all! (Small cliffhanger alert!🚨) Even now, that I’m older, I still wanted to snatch the second book from my shelf after reading this one!

Being honest, instead of being super annoyed at the school.. I actually kind of liked it, because of the curiosity it arose in me. 🙃

In conclusion, I enjoyed this reread! I could see young girls enjoying this Middle Grade/YA and relate to it. 

⚠️ Age recommendation: 12+ 

My rating: 4.5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

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Ages 10-12 rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ages 13-14 rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ages 15-16 rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sexual Content:

No romance.. just some talk of crushes and cute boys. A mention of not being boy crazy. A mention of not being able to look into a certain boys eyes. Some noticing of boys, their appearance and affirming that they’re cute. Attraction. 

Profanity: 

A few stupids, and idiot was said once. Hellhole is said once (wasn’t a curse), and a form of heck. 

Violence:

Very, very light. Some mentions of wanting to vomit and a person actually vomiting. Evelyn has conspiracy theories about the school. Some mentions of having to kill an animal to eat while you’re in survival. 

Trigger Warnings:

None 

POV’s: Louisa Ballinger 

211 pages 

This was a great little story to finish in one night! I hope to review the second book soon!