Review by abidavisf - Freeing the Wild

abidavisf 's review for:

Freeing the Wild by Paisley Hope

4.25

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The Silver Pines series just gets better and better. Freeing the Wild is a truly beautiful tale of love, dreams, and soulmates. From the off, Cassie is a ray of sunshine who has been beaten down by her incessant need to people please and the trauma of losing her father so early in life. Haden is the strong and steady hand to hold, while also learning to open his heart to love. He thinks he knows what he wants in life, career-wise at the least, and Cassie’s introduction rocks his world. These two are clearly made for each other from the moment they first talk.

Even with Haden being Wade’s top hand and with the appearance of all of the characters we’ve grown to love throughout the series, his love story with Cassie felt completely fresh and unique, like the series has taken on a new lease of life. It was truly beautiful to see Cassie discover her worth and start respecting her own dreams and boundaries. She went through a lot in a short space of time and seeing her take her life into her own hands was inspiring. It felt very much like her story more than Haden’s but I think that was just right for this book.

There are multiple difficult and hard-hitting topics touched on in this book, but all are handled with grace and never delved into too deeply to the point where they could be distressing for the reader. These subjects gave heart and emotion to the story without focusing on trauma and gloom. It was very well done.

There were a couple of oddities in the timeline and isn’t continuity in general, though I’m guessing those will be ironed out before the book is published. It got confusing, for example, when

Haden bought the rehabilitation ranch but still referred to the fundraiser being for Penny

. Another example could be when Nash says

his and Cece’s baby “could be a boy”, but we were already told they were having a girl. I suppose that’s still strictly true but it was bit confusing.

I genuinely really enjoyed and loved this book, and I can’t wait to reread it when it’s published. Thank you so much to Penguin Random House for providing me with this ARC.

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