3.51k reviews for:

The Vaster Wilds

Lauren Groff

3.85 AVERAGE

cat82's review against another edition

3.0

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I love Lauren Groff but this book just didn't speak to me. It's beautifully written as expected from Groff but, for some reason, I just didn't find it that interesting. Definitely could just be me because it has gotten a lot of great reviews.

abigailmad08's review against another edition

3.0

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3.75/5 ⭐️ “To be alone and surviving is not the same as being alive, she understood.”

stories_and_squats's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

jasmith13's review against another edition

4.0

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Graphic, hard to read at times, sad.

jamieclower's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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"Humans were never meant to live alone."

What a rough read... Our protagonist (we never learn her name) seems doomed to suffer the worst of the human experience, and alone at that. This was a frenetic, claustrophobic read. I love Groff's writing but this isn't my favorite of hers!

merndon's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

bibliogouine's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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Lauren Groff is so talented she writes about eating grubs and baby squirrels and frozen raw fish and it somehow sounds delicious. This book is overtly bleak and brutal but it is also hopeful and weirdly cosy and uplifting. It is also anti-imperialist and feminist to the core. Amazing

basalyga2e's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

sav_003's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

chamiltonrice's review against another edition

4.5

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I found the writing style difficult to begin with but by the end I was impressed by the depth of this book