(read: 13/Nov/11)
Wolves, boys, & other things that
might kill me
single
Pub: 2010, (SPEAK)Penguin Group.
Author: Kristen Chandler
Cat: fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 371 pp w/ 50
chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
She
may be in over her head, but she’s finally following her heart.
It’s KJ’s junior year in the small
town of West End, Montana, and whether she likes it or not, things are
different. Over the summer, she turned from the blah daughter of a hunting and
fishing guide into a noticeably cuter version of the outdoor loner. Normally,
KJ wouldn’t care less, but then she meets Virgil, whose mom is studying the
controversial wolf pack in nearby Yellowstone Park. And from the moment Virgil
casts a glance at her, KJ is charmed. Soon, both KJ and Virgil are spending a
lot of their time watching the wolves (and each other), and KJ begins to see
herself and her town in a whole new light.
Excerpt
The new boy
Virgil comes in and sits behind me.
He looks at me as he passes, raises his eyebrows and says, “Hey.”
A
week into the semester and I am still a loaded geek gun around this guy. After
avoiding saying a word to him all day yesterday, I have a spasm of
congeniality. I spin around and say, “We have a lot of classes together.”
“I
noticed that,” says Virgil. “I mean, I noticed you. You’re pretty.”
I’m
pretty? You can’t just say that to a girl in a casual conversation. Is he from
Minnesota or the moon?
ÔÕÖ×Ø×ÖÕÔ
I’m going to
stay with that one word, this book was interesting, though I think I didn’t
enjoy it as much as I could have because it’s come to my attention that I get
easily bored by contemp tales, and this is defiantly one of those—I say this
because I actually wanted to get to
the end of it, I wanted to know how it all turned out. So it was interesting.
The story is
about a girl who comes into her looks and like always changes friends and falls
for a beautiful boy. She also happens to live in a small town with a wolf
problem—which is mostly that they are there, and the town’s folk don’t want
them to be.
That’s your
story for you.
I wouldn’t go
far enough to say that this is a love story, at least not between humans but
maybe between her and the wolves, and yet it’s not even close to that. But I
did like how they were. I liked the realness of the characters. that they
fought and didn’t speak for days on end. How they embarrassed themselves and
made a mess of things. I didn’t get the dad roll but then some are like this
one (I was just likely and mine wasn’t). Even the bad characters legitimate
problems with the world, it’s the one thing that obviously happens to some
extent because that type of character is in a lot of books.
But it’s the
reason that I liked the books, the characters could almost be my friends
(maybe, not really) but they could be real people, sitting next to me, or
living in the next town. It had that type of awareness but I didn’t see it as having
anything different from any other small town book that comes out of America (or
really anywhere). But I guess that’s also what makes it real, isn’t it?
Others
from author
Girls
Don’t Fly,
☼☼☼
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