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Book review #2

Hello my ducklings!
I hope you are all doing amazingly ♥️

I 'm just staying at home reading Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck, watching My Hero Academia season 5 and writing this chapter! It's been a while since I wanted to talk about a book so here we go...

W i l d w o o d   C h r o n i c l e s
By Colin Meloy & Carson Ellis

1) Wildwood
2) Under Wildwood
3) Wildwood Imperium

Wildwood Chronicles is a fantasy adventure trilogy written by Colin Meloy and illustrated by his wife, Carson Ellis. The first part of the series could be a book on it's own, but the third part is the sequel of the second one. I had read only book 1 and it used to be my favourite for several years -it's actually the only book I have ever thought of as my "favourite". Some years later, I found out about the other two books and I had gone fangirl crazy! Anyway, my love for these books isn't as strong as it used to be, but I still remember how much I liked them and I still think of them as a great fantasy story -one of the best in fact.

The plot
Prue McKeel is leading a normal life in Portland, Oregon, until her baby brother is kidnapped by a flock (?) of crows! And the worst part has yet to come... Next to Prue's city there's a wild forest -a place where human never managed to disturb nature. Nobody who has dared to go in there has ever returned -and if they have, then they have returned so many years later that their own family has forgotten about them and they say that they remember nothing of that dam place. This is the place the locals call "Wildwood". And this is also the place where the crows took Prue's brother. Determined to rescue him, Prue finds herself in that wilderness where animals can talk and live together with humans, where there are people who can communicate with plants, where bandits secretly live in an botomless canyon, where a corrupted government rules and where a hurting mother threatens to destroy this amazing new world.

Why I would recommend it
• The protagonists are simply part of the adventure, and not its focus point. Most of the times, a fantasy book protagonist is the main point of the whole book -they are the chosen one with the super strong powers which make them the only person on the planet who is able to defeat the bad guy. But not this time. Prue and her classmate, Curtis, walked in Wildwood on their own and they tried to solve their problems on their own. They didn't get dragged in a crazy world being said that they are super powerful and special. No, they marched in with their own free will, made choices and made mistakes. They were a bit special since they came from the "outside world" sure, but they were still as human ans important as every other person in -or out- Wildowood. The author makes this even clearer by showing us short scenes that are not directly related to the main adventure. For instance, in the third book, he narrates a short story about an old owl who lives in peace until they are shown a picture of an incredible structure that impresses her (? I don't remember lol) so much that she starts making something similar with sticks from the forest! She puts a lot work and effort to ther structure and she is very proud of it, but right after the moment when she finished her masterpiece a bunch of people (main characters the owl didn't know about) come running and accidentally crush it! This lasts for about a chapter and is the longest of these scenes I 'm talking about. In this way, you can see that life keeps moving forward and each one of us is in their own little world -including the protagonists and their adventure.