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Wild Things (2009)

by Clay Carmichael(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1590786270 (ISBN13: 9781590786277)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Front Street, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press

review 1: I was honestly a bit bored in the beginning and felt the plot was slow in some parts. When I got the the exciting pieces, though, I like the storyline and characters. This book (to me at least) seems a bit insignificant compared the the literature I've read this year. The part of the book I really liked was actually the "about the author" section. I liked how much she allowed herself to relate to the story to make it more realistic.
review 2: I'm a sucker for stories about orphans who go live with an eccentric and/or curmudgeonly distant relation and they both soften their hearts and learn to trust each other. Anne of Green Gables was possibly the first (though I think Dickens probably invented the genre), and The Great Gilly Hopkins is another classic.Wild Thi... morengs is a particularly good rendition of exactly that plot line: when Zoe's mentally unstable mother commits suicide, she is sent to live with her paternal uncle Henry, a cardiologist-turned-sculptor who withdrew from the world when his wife died. There's a cat who Zoe slowly tames, a wild boy who lives in the forest with an albino deer, and various small-town characters, both nice and not-so-nice, to add interesting plot complications. But the essential story of Zoe and Henry learning to open their scarred hearts to one another is colorful and touching and beautifully written. less

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