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wilder_thanwhat 's review for:
The Last Wild
by Piers Torday
I read this to my 9 year old who loves books about animals. The preview looked so good, I wish it had been a little more clear that this was set in a dystopian world. We read 2/3rd of the way through until my son asked to stop. It was too stressful for him (every human adult up to that point was a nasty type of villain and the amount of killing of animals was pretty intense). The main characters were not very well developed either.
I found the writing stilted and not fun to read aloud. I finished the book and did feel like the ending wrapped things up somewhat but not enough to change the negative parts of the book. We disliked the unfortunate way fat was used as a negative description so often. The plot was inventive and somewhat interesting, I can imagine liking it as a movie better than this read.
I found the writing stilted and not fun to read aloud. I finished the book and did feel like the ending wrapped things up somewhat but not enough to change the negative parts of the book. We disliked the unfortunate way fat was used as a negative description so often. The plot was inventive and somewhat interesting, I can imagine liking it as a movie better than this read.