Well this was a let down.
Coming off the high of my last Adrienne Wilder book, In The Absence Of Light, I expected this to be much better or at least just as good as that.
My MAJOR problem with this book: it spent TOO much time on the day to day living of August and Keegan in the wilderness . Yes I know the blurb says as much and YES I know the book title is WILD but I expected SOMETHING ELSE to happen other than what was initially alluded to in the first 4 chapters or so(i.e. hunting, skinning, weather patterns, tending to August’s busted leg, August’s whining, Keegan apologizing for absolutely nothing aaaaaand rinse and repeat all throughout most of the book)
This made reading tedious and frankly very very boring.With much not happening, it got to a point that I even started skipping the sexy times. Yes, that bad.
Also,to make matters worse for me, I didn’t much connect to any of the MCs on any level. They annoyed me at several different times during the book . Sometimes , I could care less what happened to August in particular. He was selfish & kept making silly decisions which nearly got both of them killed and instead of Keegan to talk some sense into him, he just absorbed it and carried on. Sigh.
Speaking of this “love” between them, I didn’t buy it for one second. Nope.
Why then did I give it 2.5-stars instead of a zero or 1-star you may ask? Weeeeeell, the writing was good. It had a kickass, cruel and ruthless villain which breathed a bit of life into the story. The first 10%-15% were good and the last 5%-10% also were also good. I need to give credit where its due so it gets the 2.5-stars.
