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Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles #2)
592 pages
A thrilling return to a secret, sky-tall forest where restless youth meets shadowy conspiracies and high-stakes adventure.
What it feels like
This middle-grade fantasy adventure captures the restless yearning for a magical world left behind, contrasting the gray dullness of school with the verdant, sky-tall trees of a hidden wilderness. The narrative moves at a brisk, suspenseful pace as it plunges readers back into a realm of bandit-in-training friends, shadowy assassins, and looming industrial threats. It balances a whimsical, imaginative atmosphere with genuine peril, exploring themes of environmental exploitation, loyalty, and the courage required to unite a divided land. The prose paints a vivid picture of both mundane frustrations and extraordinary, shadowy depths. It is a perfect escape for young readers who dream of stepping out of a boring classroom and into a perilous, enchanted forest to save their friends.
- Mood
- verdant
- mysterious
- shadowy
- whimsical yet perilous
- Tone
- adventurous
- earnest
- suspenseful
- imaginative
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- longing for adventure · environmental exploitation · friendship and loyalty · sibling bonds · uniting a divided world
- The writing
- Descriptive and atmospheric, contrasting the dullness of the everyday with the verdant, sky-tall wonder of a hidden world.
- The arc
- Moves from the restless boredom of mundane life into the thrilling, high-stakes peril of a magical wilderness.
- Who it's for
- Young readers and fantasy lovers who crave secret worlds hidden just beyond the edge of their mundane lives.
Content notes
- child labor / orphanage exploitation
- assassins / peril
- environmental exploitation
About the book
Ever since Prue McKeel returned home from the Impassable Wilderness after rescuing her brother from the malevolent Dowager Governess, life has been pretty dull. School holds no interest for her, and her new science teacher keeps getting on her case about her dismal test scores and daydreaming in class. Her mind is constantly returning to the verdant groves and sky-tall trees of Wildwood, where her friend Curtis still remains as a bandit-in-training.
But all is not well in that world. Dark assassins with mysterious motives conspire to settle the scores of an unknown client. A titan of industry employs inmates from his orphanage to work his machine shop, all the while obsessing over the exploitation of the Impassable Wilderness. And, in what will be their greatest challenge yet, Prue and Curtis are thrown together again to save themselves and the lives of their friends, and to bring unity to a divided country. But in order to do that, they must go under Wildwood.
Description from Open Library.
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