moon110581 's review for:

Wildwood by Colin Meloy

1.0

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I strongly disliked this book and didn't finish it. It's overly complicated, excessive in its world-building, and uses ideas and concepts from a wealth of previous fantasy children's novels, but not in a clever or new way. I think Portland could be represented better, and I think there's a reason this book was manufactured to look so pretty: the content was lacking. It is essentially a dragging novel that is Portlandia in Narnia with no understanding of who its audience is.