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A review by lisacanteven
Running Wild by K.A. Tucker
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Thank you to Valentine PR for an advanced copy of this book for free I’m exchange for my honest opinion.
Now listen, I am a loyal friend of Jonah and Calla’s. I will protect them at all costs, so I’ve always been weary of Marie (read The Simple Wild duet first). For the first 20% or so of this book I still did not trust Marie. She makes a lot of comments about Jonah as if she’s still pining after him and for her age I didn’t like that storyline.
But once she and we as the readers got to know Tyler the story takes off. I couldn’t put it down at that point, leading me to read 1/2 the book in one day. Tyler’s story is sweet but heartbreaking. Dare I say that I like him more than I liked Jonah? I just found myself rooting for him the whole time.
I just had to take off a star because I didn’t like Marie a lot of the time. I wanted to, but some of the things she said and thought about Jonah throughout the book really made her sound borderline pathetic. I wanted this to be her kickass redemption story. She got redemption but it wasn’t kickass enough.
I really appreciated KA’s knowledge about the sport of dog sledding and the controversies surround it. As someone who is familiar with the Iditarod race, I still felt like I learned so much and received some great firsthand experience.
Do *not* read this if you are very triggered by animal cruelty (does not happen on page), animal loss, or pregnancy/birth trauma of animals and people.
Now listen, I am a loyal friend of Jonah and Calla’s. I will protect them at all costs, so I’ve always been weary of Marie (read The Simple Wild duet first). For the first 20% or so of this book I still did not trust Marie. She makes a lot of comments about Jonah as if she’s still pining after him and for her age I didn’t like that storyline.
But once she and we as the readers got to know Tyler the story takes off. I couldn’t put it down at that point, leading me to read 1/2 the book in one day. Tyler’s story is sweet but heartbreaking. Dare I say that I like him more than I liked Jonah? I just found myself rooting for him the whole time.
I just had to take off a star because I didn’t like Marie a lot of the time. I wanted to, but some of the things she said and thought about Jonah throughout the book really made her sound borderline pathetic. I wanted this to be her kickass redemption story. She got redemption but it wasn’t kickass enough.
I really appreciated KA’s knowledge about the sport of dog sledding and the controversies surround it. As someone who is familiar with the Iditarod race, I still felt like I learned so much and received some great firsthand experience.
Do *not* read this if you are very triggered by animal cruelty (does not happen on page), animal loss, or pregnancy/birth trauma of animals and people.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Child death