This was a rather interesting read. I enjoyed the fantasy aspect woven with the contemporary themes and I liked the MC. I thought the romance was obvious, but I don't think I'm alone on that. I liked Wilder, I was not a fan of her real dad, but I did feel for her. I mean, she spent her life with a big lie only to have her world flipped on its head by the deaths of her mother and grandfather and then it gets even crazier when she learns the lie. This book was fun and I did enjoy it more than I originally thought I would. I will recommend this book to friends.

A tale of a girl finding herself, and discovering her heritage, makes for a comforting read - one you can curl up with and read in one sitting.

Great book! Had me not wanting to put it down. Could not wait to see how it was going to end.

What a great find and why did it take me so long to read it?

I've noticed a recent trend of mixing lots of different kinds of themes together (eg [author:Megan Crane|121724]'s Viking Dystopian Erotic romances) and this is another one.

The book starts with Wilder at her grandfather's funeral. The child of absentee parents who loved only each other, Wilder doted on her grandfather and feels bereft without him. But at the reading of his will Wilder finds out a secret about her life that will forever alter what she thought she knew about herself.

On a visit to view a cottage she inherited from her grandfather Wilder runs into a strange group of wild tattooed bikers who turn out to be relatives of hers. Soon Wilder is met by a strange young vet with a powerful voice, ancient secrets and a greed that threatens her very way of life.

I'm trying to think of a way of describing Wilder and nothing really fits. Think of Bella from [book:Twilight|41865], thrown into a world of tattooed bikers, ancient myths and rivalries combined with tribal hatreds and modern mysteries (ok, so some of that sounds like Twilight anyway, think of Twilight without the virginity subtext, the creeper vampire and the irritating high school friends).

Bottom line? I loved it and I'm going to look for the next one right now!

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review (even if it is shamefully late).

It is a little hard for me to write a review for this book. I enjoyed it for the most part, but it's also something that I thought was kind of just meh. It has a lot of potential that I think a good editing session could take care of.

This book starts off with Wilder dealing with her mother and grandfathers death at a lawyers office. There she finds out that Paolo is not her real father and that's why he has always treated her with disdain. Wilder gets mad and storms out of the office and decides to head to Norton to see her real father. When she gets to Norton, Wilder fights with probably every single person she runs into (this should have been a hint for how the rest of the book would go). As a MC Wilder did not grow at all. Yes, she eventually grew to accept her family and get over the fact that they weren't there for all of her life, but she didn't grow as a person. She would fight with everyone even if she had a good reason or not. Mac would say she was being childish and then Wilder would get mad at him. Rinse, lather, repeat.

The dialogue was also super awkward in about half the conversations. For instance, Wilder will be in an argument with someone and then all of a sudden they are all laughing it off like nothing happened. And this happened about 90% of the time!!! I'm all for it happening occasionally, but it shouldn't be used in every single situation. Especially when this situation happened every other page.

The pacing in this book could have been better as well. It was so slow in some parts that I was dragging to continue reading. North didn't even bring in the supernatural aspect until about half way through the book. Then North barely explained what it all meant and the prophecy they found was all very confusing. Even at the end when it was supposed to have all come together, I have no idea what happened and why.

Overall, this wasn't a terrible book to read. I wish that the pacing was better and that there was even a little bit of character development. Wilder could have sure used it.

When Wilder’s mother and her grandfather die at the very same time, her life changes, and it’s her grandfather that she misses most. Wilder’s mom was devoted only to her husband and Wilder always felt like she was in the way, but Willy, Wilder’s grandfather, loved her unconditionally and spent as much time with her as he possibly could.

Wilder’s not sure how to go on without Willy in her life. She’s always tried to please her father, but received nothing in return. Then, when Willy’s will is read, Wilder learns that her mother’s husband wasn’t her father at all and her father is a mysterious man who lives in the mountains where Willy and Wilder went every winter to ski.

Wilder and her best friend Mickey go to the mountains to explore this unknown part of her life and find far more than they bargained for. Soon they’ve met a whole community of strangers who know all about them, they’re embroiled in a two thousand year old mystery, and the secrets are popping up all over. And did I mention the romance? There’s also romance.

Wilder is smart as a whip and tough. The characters in the book are interesting and flawed and I not only rooted for them while I was reading but now that I’m finished I want to know more about them. Good thing this is the first book in a series!

The fantasy is rooted in a modern world that is familiar. The characters drive cars and motorcycles and have cell phones and technology, but the physical location doesn’t match with any place in the real world, and the history of the story in no way matches history as we know it. The world building is beautiful, however, and the technology we know from the world today blends seamlessly with the fantastical elements of the story.

I would have been happy with antagonists that were a little less gullible, slightly smarter, and harder to defeat. But on the whole, the conflict was a satisfying one, and the emotional pull I felt toward the sympathetic characters more than made up for any disappointments in the antagonists.

In Wilder, Lena North wrote a fantasy that kept me up reading past my bedtime two nights in a row and had me ignoring my to-do list the final morning just so I could finish reading. I’ll definitely keep my eyes out for book number two in the Books of a Feather series.

I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review by NetGalley

Wilder is a dirty-mouthed twenty year-old woman. She is feisty, and she is absolutely hilarious. I loved all the jokes and mainly couldn't stop laughing. The rest of the characters were well developed and likeable. The plot was interesting, though it felt a little bit rushed.
The one thing that bothered me was her age. It felt like she was 17 at the most, instead of 20, as she was a little bit immature.
I certainly will read the rest of the saga, and I highly recommend it for a quick read!