For Keegan, he’s been pretty much isolated for a decade. For example, I know that they both fell in love, but why did they? I guess they’re both very resilient people and that’s surely admirable but, for the moat part, I couldn’t help but think that their feelings were more about circumstance than about the two of them specifically.Īugust was on the verge of death so many times in the book and Keegan always saved him, and I felt like his feelings had more to do with Keegan saving his life. I’m not the kind of person who need constant excitement but if you’re going to base the whole book on two people and their romantic relationship, then I’m gonna need more than generic character development. There’s wasn’t enough to keep me interested. You know, if you take away the petty drama and add sex (I skipped most of the sex). It was… it was what I’d imagine (never watched the show) a very long episode of Survivor would be like. At some point, I needed more from the plot than just their domestic life in a wooden cabin or detailed instructions on how to clean a gun. Reading about how they survived in such conditions was interesting at first, but there’s only so much you can take. It was after those 150-or-so pages that things got boring. Seeing the two of then trying to make the best of the situation… I liked reading about it all both their backstories, the current hardships, and their developing dynamic. August was an unhappy and grunpy camper but he was in a lot of pain so we can cut him some slack. And for the first third (maybe a little more) of the book, things were really interesting. They have minimal supplies, there’s no hospital they can go to, and both freezing to death or being eaten seem likely. Keegan is the only chance August has of survival. Keegan is only there because it’s the only place he can be safe from his past while also paying for what he did. But they’re in the kind of area which is far from civilization and where no sane man would want to live. Keegan saves him, not just from the animals but also from the weather and the injuries he’s sustained. He’s the only survivor, but that doesn’t seem like it’s going to last long since he’s injured, it’s extremely cold and the wreckage is surrounded by wild animals. He’s on a plane with his team and his boyfriend, heading to the next shoot when the plane goes down in an obscure part of Alaska. But there’s a point when you take it too far.Īugust is a model. Having to survive in the wild is definitely an interesting concept.

I really liked it so I thought I’d like this one too. I think I read a survival-type book a while ago.

Wild by Adrienne Wilder