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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, War
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Very beautifully written. It was just too slow for me.
The world in this story was so vividly written that I could see the colors and all that was described. Once again this was another story that talked about so many foods I had never heard of, so I googled them as I was reading, and now I have so many more things I want to taste.
Obviously the story was much more than the descriptions and the food. It was about girls who had been through things that so many girls out there unfortunately actually go through every day. The Wild Ones were a group of girls that the sort of main, or original wild girl, Paheli, found at the same moments when she was first made what she is now. They were at the point having been betrayed and hurt, but also this moment after the people they loved, had always trusted, had betrayed them the most. We knew Paheli’s story because we start with her, even if we don’t get very specific details. Honestly there was really only one girl we got that from, and it was a girl that all of them stop to talk to and offer their life to.
Taraana is a boy with stars in his eyes. He is the boy that ran into Paheli on the day that she was at this point, and started the whole life of The Wild Ones. When she runs into him again, she learns that he is also running, and that maybe she and her Wild Ones are the only ones who can help him save both him and their own lives.
There was a lot of story and mythology as well as interesting takes on magic both by humans and by what were called the middle-worlders. The setting included so many cities all over the world, most on the other side of the world from the US, except we got a bit of the story set in one of my favorite cities, New Orleans.
My only complaint is that for a lot of the chapters I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be from a specific girl’s point of view. Paheli’s chapters were clear. But the others were told as “we did this, we did that.” I get the point of it, I think that it is supposed to show how really all girls experience this, or how many girls have experienced some of the same horrors as these characters. But for me, in the back of my mind, I was always wondering if I was supposed to know which specific Wild One was narrating and if I had missed something.
Overall, this was such a beautifully written story, and I definitely am highly recommending it.
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.
Obviously the story was much more than the descriptions and the food. It was about girls who had been through things that so many girls out there unfortunately actually go through every day. The Wild Ones were a group of girls that the sort of main, or original wild girl, Paheli, found at the same moments when she was first made what she is now. They were at the point having been betrayed and hurt, but also this moment after the people they loved, had always trusted, had betrayed them the most. We knew Paheli’s story because we start with her, even if we don’t get very specific details. Honestly there was really only one girl we got that from, and it was a girl that all of them stop to talk to and offer their life to.
Taraana is a boy with stars in his eyes. He is the boy that ran into Paheli on the day that she was at this point, and started the whole life of The Wild Ones. When she runs into him again, she learns that he is also running, and that maybe she and her Wild Ones are the only ones who can help him save both him and their own lives.
There was a lot of story and mythology as well as interesting takes on magic both by humans and by what were called the middle-worlders. The setting included so many cities all over the world, most on the other side of the world from the US, except we got a bit of the story set in one of my favorite cities, New Orleans.
My only complaint is that for a lot of the chapters I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be from a specific girl’s point of view. Paheli’s chapters were clear. But the others were told as “we did this, we did that.” I get the point of it, I think that it is supposed to show how really all girls experience this, or how many girls have experienced some of the same horrors as these characters. But for me, in the back of my mind, I was always wondering if I was supposed to know which specific Wild One was narrating and if I had missed something.
Overall, this was such a beautifully written story, and I definitely am highly recommending it.
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The book was a bit to slow paced for me, it was good just slow reading. I'm more of a fast pace excitement book, or romance.