Wildwood

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Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis: Wildwood (2011, HarperCollins Publishers)

576 pages

English language

Published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-209353-0
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4 stars (1 review)

Prue McKeel's life is ordinary. At least until her baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows and taken to the Impassable Wilderness, a dense, tangled forest on the edge of Portland. No one's ever gone in, or at least returned to tell of it. 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 greater, as the two friends find themselves entwined in a struggle for the very freedom of this wilderness. A wilderness the locals call Wildwood.

3 editions

reviewed Wildwood by Colin Meloy (Wildwood Chronicles (1))

Review of 'Wildwood' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

I've been reading some fine books lately, but I've been thinking I really need something with a talking cat or talking rat.

This book gives us a magical forest with talking coyotes early on and then talking birds.

But I was thinking about giving up on it, when, bam, there's a talking rat!

Lifted the story right up. And the sample at the end indicates the talking rat is in the sequel, [b:Under Wildwood|10353049|Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)|Colin Meloy|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1334331844s/10353049.jpg|15255958]. So I'll be reading that soon.

Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Missing persons, fiction
  • Brothers and sisters, fiction
  • Animals, fiction
  • Oregon, fiction