The Wild, Owen Laukkanen
The Wild, Owen Laukkanen
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The Wild

Author: Owen Laukkanen

Narrator: Kristen Sieh

Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/26/2021

Synopsis

A girl is sent against her will to a remote wilderness boot camp where things aren't what they seem in this riveting and twisty thriller.

FROM THIS MOMENT ON, YOU'RE A BEAR CUB. YOU'LL LEARN RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPECT. HOW TO SURVIVE. IT'S EASIER IF YOU JUST ACCEPT IT.

Dawn isn't a bad person—she's just made some bad choices: wrong guy, wrong friends, wrong everything. But she wasn't expecting her parents to pay a boatload of money to ship her off to OUT OF THE WILD, a wilderness boot camp with a bunch of other messed up kids to learn important "life lessons." It's true that Dawn and the other cubs will learn a lot—but it's not what any of them expect. Because what happens in the woods isn't what their parents planned. Sometimes plans go very wrong. And this is one of those times. Suddenly Dawn is more scared than she's ever been in her life. And you will be too.

About The Author

Owen Laukkanen is the author of the Stevens and Windermere series, beginning with The Professionals, which was nominated for the Anthony Award, Barry Award, Spinetingler Magazine Best Novel: New Voices Award, and the International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Award for best first novel. His follow-up, Criminal Enterprise, was nominated for the ITW Thriller Award for best novel. A resident of Vancouver, British Columbia, he is now at work on the next book featuring Stevens and Windermere.KRISTEN SIEH is a stage, television, and voice-over performer. She was a member of the original cast of the Tony® Award-winning Broadway musical The Band’s Visit, and a founding member of the Brooklyn-based theater company The TEAM, writing and performing half a dozen new plays in the U.S. and abroad. Her TV credits include recurring roles on House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, and Boardwalk Empire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

Owen Laukannen’s new book, The Wild is aimed at a young adult audience, but it’s certainly smart and sophisticated enough to appeal to a lot of adult readers as well. The protagonist is a seventeen-year-old girl named Dawn who has suffered an emotional trauma and has made some very bad decisions in c......more

Goodreads review by Claude's

3.5 Stars CW: (view spoiler)[Description of person falling off cliff edge, murder, dealing with guilt over death of father, drugs and alcohol, bury your gays (hide spoiler)] Well that was a pretty exciting survival story! Okay, the writing was a bit clunky, the POV felt weirdly done, and the author's notes that told us bad stuff was......more

Goodreads review by Carrie (brightbeautifulthings)

Dawn has been in a spiral of bad choices since her father’s death, and she’s shacking up with her older, drug dealing boyfriend when her mother and step-father finally step in. They ship her off to Out of the Wild, a wilderness camp for troubled teenagers where Dawn is forced to hike all day and cam......more

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