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A review by annica_reads_books
The Wild by K Webster
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
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This is probably one of the worst books I have ever read, and that’s not because of the taboo nature of the story. To be honest, I picked this story up because I knew that K Webster has written so many taboo books and that this one was particularly taboo in nature as a father/daughter romance. I was curious to see how she’d write this in a way that would have me rooting for her characters. Unfortunately, the only thing I was rooting for was for the story to finally be over.
Also, just to be clear, the taboo aspect of this story wasn’t the problem for me. It was everything else.
My issues:
- The characters were incredibly dumb and immature. Devon was 16 when the book first started but her thought process and things that she said made her sound 11-12. Some of the terms she used are words that my 8 and 11 year old daughters have already grown out of saying, like “ouchies” 😐. And don’t even get me started on Reed! The man that randomly leaves an innocent 11 year old in a cabin alone, thinking that she’ll probably be dead in a week 🤡. The man, while his wife was still alive, was having loud and rough sex with her in their RV with their 16 year old daughter in the same vehicle.
- The storytelling made absolutely no sense. So many scenes were misplaced, illogical, non-sensical, and I’m still scratching my head over them.
- I can handle a good number of unrealistic scenes and situations in my fictional stories because hey, it’s fiction, but this book took the cake. Tell me how Devon casually moved Reed out from underneath a 600 lb bear? Never mind the fact that as she’s dragging him in she remembers to call him Reed “because he asked her to call him Reed in their cabin and that she doesn’t break her promises either.” Why does that even matter in the story in this scene right now 🤡. How does Devon not know that having a baby with your biological father will likely lead to birth defects? Their camper crashes on this mountain and they are “stranded in the wilderness” and resort to building a cabin, yet people start randomly showing up like there’s a town nearby? Why didn’t they walk back to the road? Devon is making bear skin rugs and harvesting meat without any knowledge or training? Reed knows how to fix a baby in the breech position during labor? 😂 This book packed on one ridiculous thing after another (with zero explanation or back story), and I couldn’t stop laughing while reading it. Like legitimately wheezing to the point that I had to leave my room because my husband was asleep next to me and I was about to wake him up.
- This book feels like one of those books where the only reason it’s written is for shock value. There was no angst, no build-up, no real antagonist, and after the first sex scene, this book got boring, and it got boring REALLY QUICKLY. It was one of those books where the characters experienced a problem, and suddenly a magical solution dropped out of the sky to resolve it for them.
- The writing was just…. not good. In any way.
There were other problems with this book, but I’ve already lost too much sleep trying to finish this one, and it’s not worth any more of my time.
I genuinely cannot think of one thing that I liked about this book. I know a lot of people love this one, so don’t feel the need to take my word for it - find out for yourself! The only thing I know is that I don’t feel the need to try any more books written by K Webster.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest