History of Wild Places

A Novel

368 pages

English language

Published July 10, 2021 by Atria Books.

ISBN:
978-1-9821-6480-5
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2 stars

Listen, reviews are subjective and I can rate a book whatever I want for whatever reason. Was this book bad? No not at all, I can't really think of anything that it did poorly. But do I feel like I was lied to about the premise? Yeah, so I'm going to rate it accordingly.

We start our story being introduced to Travis, a kind of washed up personal investigator who takes missing persons cases for cash because of his unique ability: he can touch objects and view the memories of the people who used them. He takes a job from a married couple who hires him to find their missing daughter, Maggie, a well-known children's book author who went missing 5 years ago. After a cryptic exchange, he gets a lead from the woman's mother and he sets off into the woods to locate where he thinks she went.

Wow! …

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  • American literature