Review: Into the Wild

Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars

What a GREAT idea! Wish I'd thought of it!

Julie lives in suburban Massachusetts with her mother, Rapunzel, and her adopted brother, Puss In Boots. Her mother, brother, and a host of their friends all escaped from The Wild hundreds of years ago, where they had been imprisoned, forced to relive their fairytale stories over and over and over again. The Wild is now imprisoned under Julie's bed.

Until it isn't.

I loved the way this story took every fairy tale convention and turned it on its head. Goldie(locks) is a self-centered woman only concerned with what SHE wants; Cindy wears ridiculous clothes and drives around in a bright orange suburban; and Snow's seven have very old-fashioned ideas about whether young ladies should be wearing jeans at the dinner table. So fun!

This was a quick, fun, energetic story, and the characters were so compelling, I can't wait to read the sequel.

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Currently Reading:

Or, about to start reading, at any rate. I've heard great things about this book, and I've had a hold on it at the library for AGES, and it finally came in! WOO!

Currently Reading:

Gurl lives in an orphanage in New York and is one of a rare few "leadfoots" who cannot fly. Not even a little bit.

But she can do something else.

When she finds a rare cat on a midnight excursion (or does the cat find her?) Gurl discovers her hidden talent.

Bug can't remember where he was before he was at the orphanage, but he knows one thing. The cat he found in the hallway chose him, not Gurl, and he wants to get it back.