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Into The Wild (2010)

by Beth Ciotta(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0373774672 (ISBN13: 9780373774678)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

HQN Books

series

The McGraws

review 1: Into the Wild is more of a companion novel to Out of Eden than a sequel. Although we occasionally see or hear about Kylie and Jack, it would be a stretch to even consider them secondary characters. Into the Wild is about River and Spenser's romance. Or to be more exact, the book is about River and Spenser's adventure in the jungle with romance making an appearance every now and then.River is neurotic about germs and bugs. Her need to control her life and her future is what caused her fiance to leave her at the alter. She has abandonment issues due to a less than perfect childhood and the public loss of her fiance and planned future drives her neurotic tendencies into overdrive. When it seems her long estranged father needs rescuing, River embarks on a crazy journey in the ... morename of closure. The entire premise seems a little unbelievable, but Ciotta manages to make the adventure seem plausible even in the face of neurosis.Spenser has baggage of his own and the couple clearly fight against their growing attraction. While this was obviously going to be a happily-ever-after story, the mental and physical obstacles the two face often seem insurmountable. At times the romance seemed out of place in the story and distracted from the life-or-death situations the couple often faced. It worked on the whole, but the budding relationship felt like poor timing much of the time.I enjoyed Out of Eden much more than Into the Wild, but I prefer my contemporary romances to be in more conventional settings and my adventures to have lusty encounters rather than romances with potential for life-long love. The book is able to straddle the genre line in a workable fashion, but didn't appeal to me as much as it would have if it leaned more heavily in either direction.
review 2: I'm not much for contemporary romances, but this one was given to me, and I never pass up free books. The back cover description sounded kind of interesting in an Indiana Jones kind of way, so I gave it a chance. It was a decent read, I'd recommend it for the beach or the airport, anywhere you need to be distracted for a little while. River was a somewhat interesting character, what with her germ-phobias and bug-phobias, but she was still determined (if sometimes a little too stubborn) to do what she came to Ecuador to do. Spenser was nice, but nothing about him really stuck in my mind aside from the cookie cutter "hunky man" descriptions. The "love at first sight" he experienced was a little unbelievable, to me anyway, especially since he spent so much time getting her out of trouble and watching her squirt hand sanitizer on her hands five thousand times. less

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