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Book Review of Wild Life

Wild Life
Wild Life
Author: Molly Gloss
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 3


This book looked fantastic: a woman ahead of her times (in the early 20th century) goes into the wilds of the logging industry of the Pacific Northwest to help find her servant's granddaughter, who has gone missing while visiting her father. Charlotte, the woman ahead of her times, goes missing herself and is taken in by a group of ... neanderthals? Half-humans? No one's sure what.

Because this story is told in diary form, it has room for the story to meander and wander. And it does, particularly when the tension should be getting high. For that reason, I didn't finish it, but the others who read my copy and commented on it at BookCrossing.com said that the last third of the book picks up again and turns into a fantastic read.