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The Simple Wild

 


While The Simple Wild was a little over the top for me, it is a fine, romantic, early adult novel. 

Summary

Calla Fletcher leads a perfectly normal and fulfilling life. She has a boyfriend, a job, a good family life with her mother and step-father, a smattering of supportive friends, and a successful website and social media account. She is beautiful, fit, and has a diverse and expensive wardrobe. 

She would not live in Toronto with her mother, Susan, and her psychiatrist step-father, Simon, if her mother hadn't have hated her life. Originally, Susan got pregnant with Calla, married, and lived with Wren Fletcher, Calla's father, in Bangor, Alaska. Calla's mother has instilled nothing less than hatred for the early darkness, bitter cold, the occasional outhouse, Wren's tiny-dangerous-plane-charter company, and the constant absence of Wren in Calla. 

Over her 26 years of life, Calla has heard from her father in a serious, talking manner about five times. The occasional phone calls even stopped after Wren missed her eighth-grade graduation. But suddenly, Calla finds herself on a plane to Anchorage to meet up with her father after she receives a call from Agnes, Wren's "complicated" friend, that Wren has progressive lung cancer. 

After a day full of traveling, Calla is thrown into a tiny plane piloted by the real-life, pain-in-the-butt yeti. Jonah hates Calla and casts her as a Barbie in the flesh. He's convinced she will not last a day in Bangor. Calla is determined to prove him wrong. 

Along the way, Calla finds friends (and more than friends), learns how to drive (finally...), deals with swarms of mosquitos, and grows to love Bangor. 

Review

Overall, this is a good book. The scenery is wonderfully described, the characters do not remain flat and are truly lovable, and I think K.A. Tucker's subtly sweet writing style is deliciously amazing to read. I do not enjoy shall we say rather "steamy" romances. That's why I think this book should only be read by people ages 16 and up. Just being honest. 

I have never read a book about Alaska. I have read a few books about nature as well. In that way, this book's descriptions were very beautiful. 


Happy reading!! What did you think? Do you like books like this? Anyone...?


Audience: 16+ 

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Date Published: 2018

ISBN: 9781501133435

Format: paperback

Genre: adult fiction, romance


This book does have some sex in it; it is an adult book after all. So, that's your warning for sexual content. The intimate scenes do not overshadow the integrity of the story which I really appreciate. This is not the case with a lot of books like The Simple Wild. I am recommending this book for older girls for this reason; however, anyone who reads this blog knows that I have to be super careful about my age ranges.

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