The Wild

"Okay. Here we go...<br/><br/><b>WARNING:</b><br/><br/><b>This review will have some spoilers.</b><br/><br/><u>Personal note:</u><br/>Now, as a very open-minded girl, who is quite outgoing and sometimes compassionate to a fault, I went into this controversial book, already with an open heart, ready to consume it and ready to enjoy it, out of spite, because of all the haters who felt that it was okay to bash an author/a person so insultingly for a book she wrote...<br/><br/><img src=http://68.media.tumblr.com/33cf4632dfdb8493ec12a13cb451ec19/tumblr_npsgpw8AGe1ql5yr7o1_500.gif <br/><br/>And I mostly DID enjoy this book. That’s why it has a 3 stars rating from me.<br/><br/>And as I got further into this book, I realized that there was a lot of misconception about it on Social Media.<br/><br/><img src=https://media.tenor.com/images/2df8e65333b7661c6ddb15535b716c41/tenor.gif <br/><br/>Talks of it got out of hand and it didn’t take long for some lies to spread like <i>wild</i>-fire, if you get my reference...<br/> <br/>Like the main character being a peadophile, which, sorry for spoiling, he isn’t at all.<br/><br/>He is in a relationship with a seventeen-year-old girl. lol<br/><br/>Take it from me. I was 16, and I was writing full-flesh erotica and had thousands of fans online devouring my every dirty sex scenes. Lol<br/><br/>So, a seventeen-year-old girl is not a little kid…<br/><br/>Also, child abuse? Um, no.<br/><br/>Well, at least not between the two main characters. In the case of a side character (Eve,) and her messed up inbred family, perhaps. But no, not between the two protagonists.<br/><br/><u>Review:</u><br/>Since I mostly always start my reviews telling you all the negatives first, let’s start.<br/><br/>We go into this book and are introduced to a very sad family of three. The parents lost one child and are now only left with their daughter Devon who asks her father, who's named Reed, why her mother seems like she loved her son more since she doesn’t talk to her anymore and Reed has to explain to the ten-year-old, selfish little Devon that her mother is just going hard times and that she loves her as equally as she loved their dead son.<br/><br/>As we get further, Reed takes his family away from the city and they travel into the wilderness.<br/><br/>It’s five years since the death of the son and the mother (Sabrina) still suffers from depression.<br/><br/>Now, let me tell you, I didn’t like that Reed wasn’t more understanding of Sabrina during her hard time. You can never understand the pain a mother goes through losing her child and I reckon it’s like nothing else you will ever experience, and when Reed tries to get her to enjoy the pleasures of life, like eating and having sex, etc, she’s not having it and I wish he were more patient and understanding.<br/><br/>Cause I know if I, myself were to lose the most important person in my life, my mother, it would take more than five years for me to ever recover, so I wish Reed was more patient with his wife. Especially since the poor woman has tried multiple times before and could never carry a child to full term.<br/><br/>And it annoys me even more, later on when we got to the now sixteen-year-old Devon's POV and read how one day, she hopes to finally “fix” her mother.<br/><br/>Um, bitch, you can’t just “fix” depression or someone with depression.<br/><br/><img src=http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/stupid.gif <br/><br/>You can certainly help a person with depression, there are millions of ways to do so, but there is no cure for depression, really. The person has to get better when they feel they’re better and you can either help or wait. Or both.<br/><br/>So that part doesn't sit well with me. I feel for Sabrina and empathize with her a lot throughout this whole book, even after she kicks the bucket. And the way they never truly mourned her after, doesn't sit well with me at all.<br/><br/>Like, how are you going to think of anything else right away after seeing your mom’s and wife’s dead body hanging from a ******* tree?<br/><br/>I feel like the two protagonists only see Sabrina as a nuisance with all of her depression and stuff and are kind of relieved that she's gone. Which means now they are now free to boink like <i>wild</i> rabbits.<br/><br/>And like... that’s so messed up lol.<br/><br/><img src=https://i0.wp.com/gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/judging-you-gif-15.gif?fit=500%2C250 <br/><br/>That makes the characters extremely unlikeable.<br/><br/>With the writing, I also feel as if the author just wants to get the mom out of the way so that the two protagonists can “get it on.” The author didn’t empathize with Sabrina and didn’t write her in a way for us, the readers, to have a chance to empathize with her either, but I did anyway. Lol<br/><br/>Haha, I’m such a rebel!!<br/><br/><img src=https://media.tenor.com/images/43ab4a96c7bb3db8556e7f83c90b2b58/tenor.gif <br/><br/>And now that we’ve gotten this out of the way...<br/><br/>Let me tell y'all something.<br/><br/>I don’t think I’ve ever read about a more unfortunate family. lol<br/><br/>Let me attempt to list all of the horrible things that happen to them.<br/><br/>In no particular order:<br/><br/>-Losing a sibling, a child.<br/>-A vehicle accident (or weather-related accident) that kills a member of their family.<br/>-A snake attack that killed another member.<br/>-Approximately four miscarriages<br/>-A bear attack.<br/>-A brutal gang rape that results in another miscarriage.<br/>-Other things…<br/><br/>You’d think this would get unbelievable at some point, but no, what I do like about it is that the author makes me feel like the story could be real. Even with all the seemingly unbelievable things taking place.<br/><br/>I truly applaud the author's writing for that.<br/><br/>Now I don’t know if any family can survive that many ******* tragedies. Lol<br/><br/><img src=http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6elb5Z9dZ1qg40zoo1_250.gif <br/><br/>But even with all these misfortunes, I still don't feel anything for the two main characters. The story is lacking in certain emotional areas. Areas that are supposed to make the readers feel something.<br/><br/>Um, gang rape is a big ******* deal, right?<br/><br/>So you know a character must not inspire much sympathy when they’re getting gang-raped and the reader is STILL not moved in any way.<br/><br/><img src=https://media.tenor.com/images/257a3e819113fc7e301edcb25a95d4d0/tenor.gif <br/><br/>Although I'm following the story, I don't “feel” anything for them, you know? It doesn't impact me in the “feels” if that makes any sense.<br/><br/>Like, things are happening without the author having the intention to have you feel anything. You are just following along.<br/><br/>That’s why when the “revenge” plot comes around, I find myself not particularly rooting for anybody, cause I don't empathize with these two main characters.<br/><br/>I really enjoy the story itself. It's constructed in a realistic way that makes you want to go on and see what else is going to happen to these two, although unlikable, still intriguing characters.<br/><br/>It was the first taboo story I’ve never read of its “category.”<br/><br/>I once started reading a step-brother/sister thing once, I think I even read a step-mother thing once, but this one was new to me.<br/><br/>I'm not particularly bothered by the “taboo” aspect of it but like the author warned us in the beginning, I DO indeed cringe at some parts but the story is interesting enough for me to want to continue.<br/><br/>And you know me, I’m a giant book-*****. If the story has sex in it, I’m ******* SOLD, and I, in fact, did like the sex scenes in this. They were ******* HOT!<br/><br/><img src=https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/xGfxIls-J82TEDGtFVOX7mIGh1k/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2015/02/18/801/n/3019466/58aff178576bc883_tumblr_mmvgv1EQ9g1qk08n1o1_500/i/When-someone-calls-you-****.gif <br/><br/>I might not have cared about the two people that were having it but the scenes were still hot-as-****.<br/><br/>So there you go.<br/><br/>This book made a lot of waves on Facebook and other social media platforms but in reality, there wasn’t anything here that was particularly too-new to the general public.<br/><br/>You won’t find the book-world lacking “this type” of stories, even on Amazon, which banned this book, still has a few thousands of books like this one lol, but this one somehow got everyone’s attention.<br/><br/>I support the author in all of her future endeavors and can’t wait to read her next one!<br/><br/>After the unpleasant and unfair storm she suffered through on social media, she deserves it.<br/><br/>I hope I love her next book even more!!<br/><br/>Let me leave y'all with one of my fav quotes from this book:<br/><br/><b><blockquote>“We grow up learning norms and behaviors that are deemed acceptable. Yet when all of life’s easiness is stripped from us and we’re thrust into something arduous, those norms get forgotten. They get shoved to the side as instinct guides the way. The mind is no longer needed. A useless organ. It’s the heart that grows wild. It forges the way. It makes decisions that defy reason and instead break rules that don’t exist out here.”</blockquote></b>"

"This was another series I just couldn’t stop turning the pages to see what was next. Loved this book from start to finish. "

"I don’t have an absolute favorite. & I’ve been in a book slump lately but some books I’ve loved over the past year or so are: In Five Years, Say you Swear, & Malibu Rising. All different but written so well I reread from time to time "

"Currently Jennifer Hartmann June first "

"This book was VERY taboo but I soaked up every word and finished it in one sitting!!!! Love, love, love! "

"Edit 2: This is from the Author's FB page.<br/>https://www.facebook.com/authorkwebster/posts/910753085741522<br/>Do we have to keep saying as a book community to NOT attack the author if you don't like their ****?? Do we?? I don't care how you feel about her work. It is not ok to attack an author! <br/> <br/>Edit: As of right now, I think Smashwords also pulled it along with Amazon pulling the kindle and paperback versions. <br/>1 star <br/><br/>SPOILERS GALORE (Because I'm about to rant on this one. ) <br/><br/>So I heard about the surrounding controversy about this book and decide to give it a try. I petty much read ( well skim on certain parts) the whole book in one setting last night and I say it like this. It was all levels of ****** up but it had a little more substance than any AR book ever had. Not a lot but a little bit more. <br/><br/>Before I start ranting let be give a little more background to the story.<br/><br/>It's basically a story of a guy and his family, trying to pick up the pieces of their family after one of their twin children dies. After some time as passed,the father though it would be a good idea to sale all his stocks he had since he's is a millionaire of course,( Yall know the drill when it comes to erotica and guys being filthy rich to avoid jail time), pack up and adventure out to the Alaskan woods to start a new life together with his 16 year old "daughter" and his clinically depressed wife. But things take a turn for the worse when the mother deiced to commit suicide cause she still couldn't deal with the death of her son. So him and his 17 year old"daughter"(she had her birthday while they were out there) is basically out in the woods by themselves, trying to build a cabin after the mother hanged herself which the ****** up fun is about to began! <br/><br/>I'm going to go ahead and spoil the whole book in one sentence just get it out of the way so I can rant about how truthfully ****** up it is. <br/><br/><spoiler><i>The heroine was not the biological daughter of the "hero" but his adopted daughter which her and her dead twin brother was a product of incest and rape.</i></spoiler><br/><br/>That's it. <br/><br/>That's whole freaking taboo twist of the story. <br/><br/>Let's get to ranting on how ****** up this is. :-) <br/><br/>Now you may say " Oh that's a freaking copout!" which I freely agree with you since the whole book had us thinking that they were truly daughter and father who started an incestuous relationship in the woods after the mama died then they BOTH found out they are not. <br/><br/>You know what make it so ****** up? <br/><br/>He ******* KNEW that she wasn't his biological daughter the whole ******* time! He knew that she was none of his and he never told her. He knew that her and brother was product of rape and incest by their real biological mother. So he got this girl and the readers thinking for the majority of the book that she's falling in love, having sex ,and about have a baby with her biological dad which she thinks it going to have birth defects when the whole, time he knew that she wasn't his in the first place. So while we the readers thinking how **** up this is and both parties should be feeling guilty about this happening, one party already knew the whole load down but still going to pretend that she's his true daughter. That's more ****** up to me than them having this incestuous realtionship with neither one of them knowing that they were actually not biologically kin until they both found out together towards the end. Meaning that the mama had affair with someone which she had twins because of it and the dad didn't know about it. It's just always worse to me when one of the party knew the whole deal while still pursuing it and left the other party out in the dark while having guilty though. <br/><br/>I appreciate the author giving the warning about how taboo and dark it was so basically it was at the readers transgression to read this. I have a high tolerance for problematic things, so while it did brother me I did go into this with a open mind. <br/><br/>Do I agree with the kindle version being pulled from amazon?<br/><br/>No. Not at all. Cause in all honestly, that just draw more attention to the book cause people want to know what the big deal is. <br/><br/>So yeah It's ****** up but it doesn't warrant a pull from Amazon.<br/><br/>You can also read it on my blog! https://tanyasreading.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/the-wild-by-k-webster/"