The Wilding

This book declined in my estimation the further I read. None of the characters elicit a ton of sympathy - maybe because ultimately they're pretty broad: the glad-handing local tycoon, the creepy stalker, the emotionally distant wife, the manly man grandfather, the wussy intellectual father, and so o......more

[This review was originally published at The Nervous Breakdown: [URL not allowed]] The Wilding by Benjamin Percy is a powerful book packed with tension, unease, and life at the edge of the forest, where quite possibly man should stay. It is an intricate weaving of several diffe......more

This is a story of men out in the woods, a grandfather, his son, and grandson, also a mysterious bear like creature, a kind of Bigfoot loose in the wild. The first person narrative used, makes great reading, visceral, and page turning. There are some interesting characters in this story, he really get......more

Benjamin Percy’s first novel, “The Wilding,” is an admittedly unrefined – but still engaging – debut by the author, one that often works more on a character level than a narrative one. As evidenced by “The Dead Lands” and “Red Moon,” Percy is consistently adept at presenting the reader with characte......more