A review by pbanditp
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

3.0

Pastoral is a self sufficient settlement in a remote forest. The people who live there are trapped due to a sickness in the trees so they can not cross their boarders because the tree sickness can transmit to them and cause them to rot away within a few days.
When a baby is born and needs urgent medical care a few people start to question what they’ve been told.
Do they dare go get help and threaten the entire village? Or do they let the baby die?
Great idea but I didn’t connect with the characters. We were introduced to a couple people and then didn’t hear anything about them. At that point I was invested in a character and thought other characters were secondary and never connected with anybody else. That is all on me and I am sure others will enjoy the book because it is well written