3.48k reviews for:

The Vaster Wilds

Lauren Groff

3.85 AVERAGE

southerntransplant's review against another edition

4.0

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Beautiful language, character and setting. Heartbreaking and ultimately affirming. Felt like it veered into narrative preachiness at the end… why the 4.

enalbone's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

conlimonysal's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

literarylauren333's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging emotional 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

e_z's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Beautiful sentences, but pretty painful to spend so much time with someone starving the whole book. 

rhysellnow's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

paige_olson_'s review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Rape, Excrement, Grief, Stalking, Colonisation

tsoutham's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book contains some hard truths about the relationship between human beings who embrace capitalism and ever-ending, unchecked progress and the rest of everything on this beautiful earth. For this reason, it is a difficult read. In a way, its brutal honesty is hopeful, and in others, I felt such despair that I had to skip over parts. 

I am sure I will come back to this, though, again to soak in its truth and beauty.

nicolac's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

juliane_s's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes