A review by jessdekkerreads
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

adventurous dark reflective slow-paced

4.0

This story opens with a young servant girl escaping a colonial settlement, courageously heading straight into the snowy wilderness without a look back. Despite what she knows and imagines could be awaiting her in the woods, you as the reader come to understand that whatever life she was living in the colony must’ve been truly horrific to take off into these unknown woods. 

Throughout the story we are given flashbacks, showing us how this unnamed woman came to arrive here in this settlement, the dangers and violence she and other women were subjected to, the effects organized religion had on them, as well as the violence inflicted on the Natives to this land. 

I loved this story about survival and strength and perseverance. This book reminded me why I love historical fiction so much.