Name: Peyton's review of Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Item: Witch of Wild Things
Rating: 1.5
Author: Peyton

Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Legend goes that long ago a Flores woman offended the old gods, and their family was cursed as a result. Now, every woman born to the family has a touch of magic. Sage Flores has been running from her family—and their “gifts”—ever since her younger sister Sky died. Eight years later, Sage reluctantly returns to her hometown. Like slipping into an old, comforting sweater, Sage takes back her job at Cranberry Rose Company and uses her ability to communicate with plants to discover unusual heritage specimens in the surrounding lands. What should be a simple task is complicated by her partner in botany sleuthing: Tennessee Reyes. He broke her heart in high school, and she never fully recovered. Working together is reminding her of all their past tender, genuine moments—and new feelings for this mature sexy man are starting to take root in her heart. With rare plants to find, a dead sister who keeps bringing her coffee, and another sister whose anger fills the sky with lightning, Sage doesn’t have time for romance. But being with Tenn is like standing in the middle of a field on the cusp of a summer thunderstorm—supercharged and inevitable.

Witch of Wild Things

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She's gone before I can finish the sentence, but I hope she feels the words as deeply as when she was alive. That’s how big my love is for you, I used to tell her when she was a toddler. It’s bigger than the whole universe. It's bigger than forever.

She thinks if I find love, it's going to magically fix things. I don't have the heart to tell her that there's no way a man's love is big enough for that, not even sunrise smile Nate Bowen's.

Peyton

“Things have been cracked for so long, Sage,” Sky responds. “They 

 to break. So now the roots and leaves can come out and everything can bloom again.”

Why is every book I’ve read recently an elegy for forgiveness? Actually, don’t answer that. I don’t think I’m ready to look so closely at it.

This book took a few chapters to get into. It was a very slow start. But somewhere around chapter 10 I became so invested I couldn’t put it down. I read it in one sitting. It made me want to go and plan out my spring garden. It made me want to call my brother and tell him I’m sorry for anything and everything I’ve never acknowledged.

checked all of my boxes. Broken siblings bonds? Check. Well-meaning but still absent parental figure? Double Check. The sweetest second chance love story I’ve read in forever? Check, check, check.

At its heart, this story is freshly overturned dirt, the creeping vines that grow around windowsills, the sting of salt on the air—just everything earthbound and homesick. I cannot recommend it enough.

“Things have been cracked for so long, Sage,” Sky responds. “They needed to break. So now the roots and leaves can come out and everything can bloom again.”

Why is every book I’ve read recently an elegy for forgiveness? Actually, don’t answer that. I don’t think I’m ready to look so closely at it.

This book took a few chapters to get into. It was a very slow start. But somewhere around chapter 10 I became so invested I couldn’t put it down. I read it in one sitting. It made me want to go and plan out my spring garden. It made me want to call my brother and tell him I’m sorry for anything and everything I’ve never acknowledged.

Witch of Wild Things checked all of my boxes. Broken siblings bonds? Check. Well-meaning but still absent parental figure? Double Check. The sweetest second chance love story I’ve read in forever? Check, check, check.

At its heart, this story is freshly overturned dirt, the creeping vines that grow around windowsills, the sting of salt on the air—just everything earthbound and homesick. I cannot recommend it enough.

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Bland, 2.5.

Siento que se podía ejecutar de una mejor forma y la falta de comunicación entre todos los personajes me tenía HARTA.

Ah, y también me carga el spanglish forzado en los LIBROS.

A beautiful, magical story. It made me cry. A lot. But I loved it. The romance was sweet. loved first seeing the blossoming of trust and friendship between Sage and Tenn. The characters felt real, all of their emotions raw and tangible. And the magic system was gorgeous. The family dynamic was what really hit the hardest. So much trauma and turmoil. And I could feel every bit of it through the writing. I read this in one go because I just could not put it down.

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