A review by ocurtsinger
Wild Life by Molly Gloss

3.0

I found this book to be really absorbing, and often had a hard time putting it down, but I think that says more about the narrative style rather than the story. The pace of the journal entries and other anecdotes makes for a really textured prose, and the research that Gloss must have done makes the logging villages of the colonized Northwest seamlessly real. But yeah, there's just not much to the story, and it ends rather abruptly and without incident, which is just fine, as I think the main point of the novel was to impress a different perspective of logging upon the narrator and upon the reader, but it's just not as satisfying as I expected it to be...