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the worldbuilding is very solid here. I suspect the vagueness about what "the City" is and how it works is intentional, but there is a good balance of action, philosophy and urban planning in the Anthropocene, with a bit of YA romance thrown in. overall solid, and the characters are well drawn and sympathetic, even the robot.


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Wilders Project Earth Brenda Cooper 9781633882652 Books Reviews

Trigger warning suicide

Reading Wilders was a struggle from the get go. It took me three weeks to finish. I haven’t had this much difficulty forcing myself to finish something since my senior English class read Faulkner. I may take Faulkner over Wilders.

The future is divided between the cities and the unincorporated land outside them, intended to be restored to nature and wilderness. Coryn Williams lives in the megacity of Seacouver but is left orphaned after her parents double suicide. Her sister Lou leaves her behind to become a ranger, working for an NGO on the outside. On her eighteenth birthday, Coryn is determined to reunite with Lou… so she ventures outside her city, accompanied only by her robot Paula.

I don’t know where to start with Wilders. It’s just got so many problems. I kept trying to think of something positive to say about it and coming up blank. I did eventually hit on one positive Wilders is well intentioned. It drips with earnestness. Brenda Cooper clearly cares about the ecology and the environment. However, the author’s sincerity was not enough to make Wilders readable.

Wilders starts with a completely unnecessary two page long info dump about the setting. Honestly, that was the first sign I wasn’t going to like this book. Then Wilders starts up the actual storyline about Coryn. This leads me to something that bugged me throughout the entire book.

How the heck is it the city’s fault that Coryn’s parents killed themselves? The narrative keeps asserting that her parents killed themselves because they hated living in the city so much. Here’s the thing. They weren’t trapped in the city. Coryn literally just walks out when she decides to go find Lou. So if they didn’t like living in the city… couldn’t they just leave? From what I can tell, her parents didn’t die “because of the city.” They died because they had mental health issues that I see no way the city was responsible for. This future involves some sort of universal healthcare that appears to be much better than whatever America currently has. Coryn mentions going to the doctor whenever she needs to, not worrying about it. She also mentions her mom was on anti-depressants, so she was getting at least some sort of treatment for her depression. So from everything I can tell, her parents were getting health care coverage and treatment (from the city FYI), so it’s not the fault of the medical system that they killed themselves. The explanation implied by Wilders is that her parents killed themselves because they hated living in the city since “the city’s soulness not like nature” or something along those lines.

I just… this entire backstory makes me so angry. I really don’t like the whole “it’s the city’s fault” line of thought. For one, the city erases many of the social ills our country currently struggle with. Coryn’s family had a guaranteed basic income, housing, and healthcare. That’s more than can be said for many families right now. Secondly, a walk in the woods isn’t going to cure depression. As someone who has been depressed, trust me when I say that reconnecting with nature isn’t going to magically fix your brain attacking itself. I found the plot point of Coryn’s parents suicide incredibly frustrating and to be trivializing mental health issues.

Of course, all of that happens within the first twenty pages or so. There’s still the rest of the book. Coryn’s fifteen when her parents kill themselves, but she’s eighteen for the majority of the book. Unfortunately, she reads more like twelve. I don’t expect eighteen year old protagonists to be completely mature, but I do expect a degree of common sense. Coryn doesn’t tell Lou she’s coming to live with her. She just walks into a completely unknown, potentially dangerous situation. I kept thinking that she was spoiled and bratty. Logically, I know that she lived in an orphanage for three years after her parents killed themselves, but I couldn’t stop thinking of Coryn as “spoiled.” On the bright side, at least I got the impression of a character trait? The cast as a whole was completely cardboard and two dimensional. The characters were little more than names on the page.

There was an attempt at a romance subplot. I would have been annoyed about it, but it was mostly just so bland and half baked that it never even got on my nerves. Truthfully, it was the least of this book’s problems.

For instance, I am still not sure what was going on with the plot. Eco-terrorists are definitely involved, but I haven’t figured out whether or not Lou was one? Lou and some of her ranger friends were planning something, but I am confused as to what they were trying to do. It must have been more than just a protest. Lou and some of the other characters felt sort of like those extreme animal rights people who think anyone who’s not a vegan is a murderer. At one point she calls species extinction “genocide,” although thankfully Coryn comments that the word choice seems a bit extreme. No duh. As terrible as killing polar bears is, it’s extremely offensive to compare it to the Holocaust.

It took me three weeks to finish reading Wilders, and I lost track of how many other books I started and finished during that time. The world building, the characters, the plot… in all regards Wilders was unsatisfying. It’s not a book I would ever recommend.

I received an ARC in exchange for a free and honest review.
Wilders is the first book in a new science fiction duo. After reading the first one, I'm undecided as to whether to stick with it.

Wilders is marketed only as sci-fi currently as far as I can tell and although I feared it would read like a young adult novel, I selected it anyway. It seems very much YA to me and I think the marketing should lean into that.

There are some interesting ideas in this book and it did keep me engaged enough to finish it. It was pleasant enough to read and kept up a decent pace. However, the book hinted at a lot of intrigue that didn't play out in a very surprising way and when twisty things did occur it was confusing to follow. Characters weren't very deep and the dialogue was sometimes cringeworthy. Main character was always getting caught in the wrong place at the wrong time - it happened so often you knew it was coming.

There was a hint of romance that was cute and I hope it continues in the follow-up book. The setting was a reasonable imagining of a future earth and is a big part of the reason that this is an OK read. It just doesn't have a lot of depth beyond the setting.
This is a great book for both youth and adults. The near future should concern us all and make us think about the environment and animals we should protect. I am looking forward to more books in this series.
Good idea, horribly gone wrong. I had to force myself to read it to the end. Poorly written and edited. "There was a hole in her life" is about as inspiring as it gets. First paragraph of Chapter 34 "Halfway through the next day, they stopped at the top of a hill festooned with fast-spinning white windmills and peered through a face full of wind to more hill...." "Peered through a face full of wind". Whatever that is supposed to mean! In the same chapter, third paragraph, the main character takes a "deep beath and savoured the fish and salt smell of the river". They have strange smelling rivers in this story which started fairly well then rapidly degenerated into a nonsensical tale. The characters are superficial and not well fleshed out, except the robot and dog. The plot is also convoluted and unconvincing with an absolutely farcical ending.
I bought this one based on a review I saw on the NYTimes. No regrets. Wonderful worldbuilding, excellent characters, and a plot that goes like a rocket. 10/10 would buy again.
a good read
There were so many earnest ideas percolating through the narrative that even the most promising were given short shrift, and the heroine and her many random, disconnected travails were similarly unbelievable - I had to make myself finish reading it
the worldbuilding is very solid here. I suspect the vagueness about what "the City" is and how it works is intentional, but there is a good balance of action, philosophy and urban planning in the Anthropocene, with a bit of YA romance thrown in. overall solid, and the characters are well drawn and sympathetic, even the robot.