1.48k reviews for:

Wildwood

Colin Meloy

3.63 AVERAGE

lisalikesdogs's review against another edition

3.0

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This was cute, but I didn't love it as much as I thought I would. The writing was good but the story a bit cheesy in parts - and yes I know I invite the cheese factor when I read kids books, but so many do well without it! I would love to talk about it with kids and see what they think.

joyfulcrow's review against another edition

3.0

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Reminded me a lot of Labyrinth. :)

jsmlr's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Colin Meloy's excellent world building is front and center in this book. It was a delightful read, and a real page turner. I've already picked up the next two books in the series and can't wait to read them!

ellyaaisyah's review against another edition

3.0

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Man it took me months to finish this book.
The story is lovely. I love love love the cover and the illustration.
Its just this is a really hard children book to read at least for me. The vocabulary of this book is so wide that sometimes confuse me. But I quite enjoy the story.

mlcharacter's review against another edition

3.0

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I had wanted to love this, because I love the Decemberists, I love Colin Meloy's baroque storytelling, but sadly I just didn't. It was okay. It had all the ingredients, but just didn't play out in a satisfying way-- that mysterious unnameable thing.

xpicth's review against another edition

4.0

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I didn’t read any reviews of this before I read it, and wow, folks disagree! It’s long but never felt cumbersome to me. It’s dark for middle grade but certainly no worse than something like Amari. I didn’t love the ending, but it’s the first of a trilogy, so final judgement suspended.

localbananaman's review against another edition

3.0

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It was giving very much Chrosincles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. Took me absolutely forever to get through it because I wasn't too held by it, but it was a lovely story!

kt_doc's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

meas_bookshelf's review against another edition

4.25

hopeful mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

belleand_books's review against another edition

1.0

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So this was so boring and I got 129 pages in and I’ll be honest, I wasn’t connecting to anything and I couldn’t tell you why I should care about any of the Impassible Wilderness shit