Wildwood (2011)
Sunday, July 10, 2016Title : Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles #1)
Author : Colin Meloy
Illustrator : Carson Ellis
Genre : Fantasy
Rating : 7.5/10
Prue McKeel’s life is ordinary. At least
until her baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows. And then things get
really weird.
You
see, on every map of Portland, Oregon, there is a big splotch of green on the
edge of the city labeled "I.W." This stands for "Impassable
Wilderness." No one’s ever gone in—or at least returned to tell of it.
And
this is where the crows take her brother.
So
begins an adventure that will take Prue and her friend Curtis deep into the
Impassable Wilderness. There they uncover a secret world in the midst of
violent upheaval, a world full of warring creatures, peaceable mystics, and
powerful figures with the darkest intentions. And what begins as a rescue
mission becomes something much bigger as the two friends find themselves
entwined in a struggle for the very freedom of this wilderness.
A
wilderness the locals call Wildwood.
This is the
book with a beautiful illustration as its cover, the reason why I bought this
book. Honestly, I’m so in love with the illustration in this book, I even don’t
mind with the thickness of this book (it’s 541 page novel!) cause I’m so in
love! Carson Ellis surely did a wonderful job in this book.
And for the
story, Colin Meloy did a good job as well. Usually I didn’t really like books with
a lot of pages in it (more than 450 pages) because I’ll need more time to
finish the book and I’ll forget the story often (since, I think, I have a short
term memory). It will end up with me not understanding the story at the end.
And I hate it when I don’t understand the story from the book I’ve bought. It’s
a waste of money. BUT, it didn’t happen with this book. Surprisingly!
I really enjoyed
read this book. The story is interesting. At first, I really need a long time
to finish the first chapter because I think it was just so so. First impression
is important for a thick book like this and I didn’t find it really good in
this book. But as I read more, the story starting to become more interesting.
The other
problem that I find about this book is, I think this book could be a little
thinner. Colin Meloy wrote the story in a very detail narration. A little bit
too much little detail, I think. When I read the story, I skipped a lot of
words, about the little detail (some words that I really don’t understand what
it should be meaning). Although I did that, I still can understand what the
story about. So, I think, that if Colin Meloy reduce the little detail (with
the hard words), the book will become thinner and more fun to read.
But, in the
end, Colin Meloy still keep a secret about Curtis’s story. That’s, I believe,
will be revealed in the second book, Under
Wildwood. The secret will be enough to make the reader curious about the
next book. And so I think 7.5/10 is a fair score for this book.
PS: Honestly, now I realize, why I always give a small
score for the books I’ve read? Is it too
small?
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