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A review by _askthebookbug
The Wildlands by Abby Geni
5.0
The Wildlands. .
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Thank you so much @counterpointpress for sending over this review copy! :) .
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QOTD : If you could save Earth one step at a time, what would be your first step? .
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When a tornado hits the tiny city of Mercy, Oklahoma, four siblings lose their father and home to it. Darlene, Tucker, Jane and Cora are orphaned instantly as their father never makes it to the safe bunker. When the entire responsibility of looking after the McClouds falls on a 19 year old Darlene, she reaches out to media for help. Posing in front of hundreds of cameras with her sisters by her side, she gives interviews in return of cash. She gives up her hopes of attending college and takes up a job in a grocery store. Tucker, a man with wild dreams shuns from interviews and runs away from home, from his sisters. .
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Three years later, on the anniversary of the Tornado that destroyed the McClouds, an injured Tucker reappears mysteriously at the same time of the bombing Joy cosmetics. News are all over the State that lab testing animals were freed from the lab. He reaches out to his favourite sister Cora, who’s just 9 years old and they both vanish off the face of Mercy. .
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Tucker is full of dreams, dreams of freeing animals from zoos and labs and save them rom suffering. He transforms young Cora into Corey by chopping off her hair and filling her mind with ideas of saving the planet. She becomes his accomplice as he continues with his spree of murdering people and setting animals free. When months go by, Cora starts missing her sisters and realises that Tucker has never been right. A misfortune strikes and Tucker finds himself in grave danger but many questions haunt you as you put the book down.
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This book is so marvellously written that I almost pictured the visuals in front of me while reading. The protagonist is divided into two parts each being narrated by Cora and Darlene. The sisterly love, the naïveté of Cora and Tucker’s obsession with being the saviour is so well portrayed in this book that it blew my mind. The story flows freely with no glitches whatsoever and makes you understand everybody’s side of the story. .
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I would rate this book 5/5.
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Thank you so much @counterpointpress for sending over this review copy! :) .
.
QOTD : If you could save Earth one step at a time, what would be your first step? .
.
When a tornado hits the tiny city of Mercy, Oklahoma, four siblings lose their father and home to it. Darlene, Tucker, Jane and Cora are orphaned instantly as their father never makes it to the safe bunker. When the entire responsibility of looking after the McClouds falls on a 19 year old Darlene, she reaches out to media for help. Posing in front of hundreds of cameras with her sisters by her side, she gives interviews in return of cash. She gives up her hopes of attending college and takes up a job in a grocery store. Tucker, a man with wild dreams shuns from interviews and runs away from home, from his sisters. .
.
Three years later, on the anniversary of the Tornado that destroyed the McClouds, an injured Tucker reappears mysteriously at the same time of the bombing Joy cosmetics. News are all over the State that lab testing animals were freed from the lab. He reaches out to his favourite sister Cora, who’s just 9 years old and they both vanish off the face of Mercy. .
.
Tucker is full of dreams, dreams of freeing animals from zoos and labs and save them rom suffering. He transforms young Cora into Corey by chopping off her hair and filling her mind with ideas of saving the planet. She becomes his accomplice as he continues with his spree of murdering people and setting animals free. When months go by, Cora starts missing her sisters and realises that Tucker has never been right. A misfortune strikes and Tucker finds himself in grave danger but many questions haunt you as you put the book down.
.
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This book is so marvellously written that I almost pictured the visuals in front of me while reading. The protagonist is divided into two parts each being narrated by Cora and Darlene. The sisterly love, the naïveté of Cora and Tucker’s obsession with being the saviour is so well portrayed in this book that it blew my mind. The story flows freely with no glitches whatsoever and makes you understand everybody’s side of the story. .
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I would rate this book 5/5.