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A review by laurenexploresbooks
What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine
4.0
CW: Abduction, Murder, Torture, Death
What Should Be Wild is dark and compelling. The protagonist Maisie Cothay is cursed and can not touch anything with her bare hands without causing death. Maisie has been kept away in her family home with only her eccentric anthropologist father and a dog that is not impacted by her touch, and her brief knowledge of her family history for company. Maisie is trying to understand her place in a world that she has been forbidden from exploring and along the way learns about her own desires, fears, and understanding what it means to embrace the wildest parts of herself.
What Should Be Wild is dark and compelling. The protagonist Maisie Cothay is cursed and can not touch anything with her bare hands without causing death. Maisie has been kept away in her family home with only her eccentric anthropologist father and a dog that is not impacted by her touch, and her brief knowledge of her family history for company. Maisie is trying to understand her place in a world that she has been forbidden from exploring and along the way learns about her own desires, fears, and understanding what it means to embrace the wildest parts of herself.