Wild

Really disliked this one. I cringed the whole way through it. It’s a sappy romance that attempts to bring weight to the story by the inclusion of a storyline that includes a traumatized child.

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Julia could hear the racket going on in the police station. Dozens of reporters and photographers and videographers were out there, setting up their equipment, running sound and picture checks. She and Ellie and Cal and Peanut were crammed into the employee lunchroom like hot dogs in a plastic pack.

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This is the type of low quality writing that makes a quick-reading beach book. The obvious storylines, the sensationalized characterizations, the Hallmark-like attempts to overtly pull on the heart-strings, the way each subplot is perfectly sewn up - the author even pulled a u-turn late in the story to make the ending conclude in the way the reader would prefer! By the end of it, my eyes hurt because I’d been rolling them so much.

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Julia’s gaze met his. She slid off the hearth and knelt in front of him. “I want to wake up and find that this was all a bad dream.”

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“I know.” She leaned forward and kissed him. He felt turned inside out by that kiss, broken. Now that he’d started feeling again, he couldn’t stop. Didn’t want to.

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He drew back just enough to look at her, and whispered, “You told me once I could have all or nothing from you. I choose all.”

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She tried to smile. “It took you long enough.

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Uugh. Although this book is classified as being for adults, I’d say it’s better shelved in the Teen Reading section.

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Corny and inauthentic. Not recommended.

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