Review: The Will and the Wilds

The Will and the Wilds by Charlie N. Holmberg
My rating: 3.25 of 5 stars

The Will and the Wilds is another of Charlie Holmberg's romantic fantasies in which a young woman deals with adversity by broadening her perspective and developing compassion. Enna is a young woman who lives with her ailing, aging father at the edge of the Wildwood. She's been raised to fear mystings, a variety of malevolent creatures that penetrate the human world from the Deep. Not all mystings are created equal, but all are a potential threat to the average human. Enna however has a protect stone that her father obtained from the Deep and the stone warns her of the presence of Mystings by growing painfully cold. When attacked by a gobbler one day, Enna fights back by summoning a mysting of her own, and bargaining with him to protect her. His price? A kiss that could cost her her soul. Failing to follow through would leave her facing two mystings, so Enna agrees to this bargain but Maekallus, her summoned mysting, becomes bound to the mortal realm and she to him. Rather than eating all her soul, they are both surprised when the kiss she bestows gives him only a piece of her soul, leaving him with a bunch of complicated feelings he wasn't expecting, and her with a growing insight into the loneliness of the mystings' existence. Maekallus' growing humanity mirrors Enna's growing ability to see mystings as unique individuals rather than a unified and evil collective. I have to say I was slightly disappointed that Maekallus had to start looking more human for Enna to view him in a different light, though.

This is a pleasant, fast read. The audiobook is narrated by Angela Dawe.

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