I read this book back in February when I was on my blog break, and I’m just now getting my thoughts typed up and posted. Better late than never.
Choice: a predictable, planned out life where you get to live happily ever after—after slogging through the difficulties OR freedom to make your own choices, choose your own destiny, with all the risk that freedom entails?
Into the Wild is three parts silly, but the fourth, underlying part is serious philosophical stuff, like the question above. The Wild is fairy tale land run amuck, and Julie, our protagonist/heroine must choose to save her fairy tale character friends from the dictatorship of story that is The Wild or to become a part of the stories in The Wild and thereby gain a father and a happily-ever-after for herself. It’s not an easy choice. Stories have a way of sucking you in, sapping your strength and resolution, and making you into a helpless pawn in the hands of the storyteller.
I’m glad I finally read this tale told by a master storyteller herself, Sarah Beth Durst, and I’m looking forward to reading the sequel, Out of the Wild.
I read this book back in February when I was on my blog break, and I’m just now getting my thoughts typed up and posted. Better late than never.