Beware the Wild
Author: Natalie C. Parker
Publication Date: October 21st 2014
Publisher: HarperTeen
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
It's an oppressively hot and sticky morning in June when Sterling and her brother, Phin, have an argument that compels him to run into the town swamp -- the one that strikes fear in all the residents of Sticks, Louisiana. Phin doesn't return. Instead, a girl named Lenora May climbs out, and now Sterling is the only person in Sticks who remembers her brother ever existed.
Sterling needs to figure out what the swamp's done with her beloved brother and how Lenora May is connected to his disappearance -- and loner boy Heath Durham might be the only one who can help her.
This debut novel is full of atmosphere, twists and turns, and a swoon-worthy romance
Beware the Wild was everything I hoped and wanted The
Drowned Forest to be, enough strange to be charming, enough weird to be strange
and enough just is to not be
religious. There is religion, it's set in a very religious town, but it wasn't
exactly present in the story or focus of it. To which, I'm thankful of. It started off pretty quick, a lot quicker than I
was expecting, and maybe that's why it dipped in the middle a little, it
started the engine before you'd even shut the door, but it got me hooked so it
done its job, and I'm not faulting it on that. The story was great , and the
idea of it was fun, someone close to you disappearing and you being the only
one to remember them, and the fact that the whole town and their lives carrying
on as if that person never even existed, and in Sterling's case, having someone
replacing her brother- as a sister, It also very authentic to the setting.
But, I am however, faulting it on a few
things.
