This basis forms the rest of the plot and offers a theme for readers to enjoy. Set in Ireland, The Wren Hunt is a young adult fantasy novel focusing on the life of Wren, a girl who is chased through the town every year on ‘wren day’, as opposed to hunting for an actual bird. The Wren Hunt will be published on 8 February 2018 by Bloomsbury. It follows in-line with many YA fantasies which focus on the fact that if this character wasn’t involved, the specific events of the novel would not have happened. The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson was a slightly confusing, but overall well-written, enticing book. is disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255.As I start to introduce more young adult fiction into my reading, I am reminded of the sheer simplicities of reading when you’re young. Foreword Reviews only recommends books that we love.
No fee was paid by the publisher for this review. The publisher of this book provided free copies of the book to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. The novel asks how knowledge not only defines but also changes someone, engendering interesting surprises.ĭisclosure: This article is not an endorsement, but a review. Watson lays the groundwork for interesting, unresolved tensions and lingering questions between many of the novel’s characters. Wren is centered in her own narrative, and her unfettered development allows tremendous freedom for supporting characters to be as complex as she is.Īmid its thrills, The Wren Hunt maintains a subtle insistence on moral ambiguity and Wren’s agency. Although many of the genre’s familiar impediments crop up-a male love interest, strained friendships, divided loyalties, and family secrets-there’s restraint in how they play out. But the crisis action is where the novel finds its stride, as all the carefully established factions and loyalties are upended and destroyed.Ĭharacter development is essential to the story. The stakes steadily increase over the course of Wren’s quest.
The first book in a new young adult contemporary fantasy series, The Wren Hunt is a compelling take on druid mythology combined with a dash of family mystery. With every year that passes, it seems more and more likely that Wren will be caught in the village of Kilshamble-literally and metaphorically. But unlike others of their kind, they’re hiding in enemy territory. Like all modern druids, Wren and her grandfather, Smith, are hiding. One group is extinct, and the two that remain are in a turf war for dwindling magical resources. Once a powerful group, their unity is long gone, victim to internecine factions that have divided their three branches into autonomous groups based on magical affinities.
In Mary Watson’s The Wren Hunt, druids are still in the world, but they’re hanging on by a thread.
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