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Into the Wildewood (Faire Folk #2)
After squelching an evil plot by a rotten fairy, Keelie Heartwood is ready for fun at the upcoming Wildewood Renaissance Faire. Getting to know her elf dad has been great, but camping out in his homemade RV while acting out the 16th century isn't so fab. Keelie prefers hot showers and wearing a watch, thankyouverymuch. And a cool new cell phone would be nice, too. But with...more
Paperback, 331 pages
Published
June 8th 2008
by Flux
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I still like the premise and I think many of the characters are very intriguing. The plot is great, too. It moved along well. Good action. It did keep me up reading late into the night. I would recommend it to others. Summers is learning her craft. Kudos for improving. I like this second novel a lot better than the first in the series, but there is still a ways to go before I would give her a 5-star rating. This book has smoother text. It doesn't quite feel like it's a very long text message. Ev...more
"Into the Wildewood" continues the story of Keelie Heartwood. Getting to know her dad and more about herself and her elf powers after killing the red top, Keelie is ready for the Wildewood Renaissance Faire. After purchasing a pair of handtooled leather boots without letting her dad know Keelie finds she has to get a job to pay for them. From wearing a stinky dragon suit, being a pickle girl and trying to stop the trees from being so angry and throwing acorns everywhere, it seems that one desast...more
Again this author chose to use curse words rather than intelligent descriptions of feelings/situations/expression. We are not impressed at all by the appearance of ""ass," "bullshit," "badass," "holy shit," "bitchy,"and the mention of "the 'F' word." We got these books in the youth section (not the children's section, more like the tween section) and did not expect to see vulgar language or topics. We would not recommend this book to youth. So far on top of the language there has been mention of...more
Jul 16, 2009
Naima
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who's read the first one
Recommended to Naima by:
my Auntie
This book is amazing. It continues the story of Keelie Heartwood as she goes to the Wildewood Renaissance Faire with her father. There, she discovers that many trees in the Wildewood Forest are angry, sick and dying. Keelie sees Lord Einhorn, the unicorn, guardian of the forest, and discovers that he too is very ill. Keelie's father Zeke and many other elves are really sick also.
Elianard and Elia aren't sick at all........
Otherwise, Keelie works to pay off an impulse buy of handcrafted boots, an...more
Elianard and Elia aren't sick at all........
Otherwise, Keelie works to pay off an impulse buy of handcrafted boots, an...more
Great fun! Keelie is forced to deal with deeper levels of her magic than she has learned--or her father thinks she is ready for--when they reach a Renaissance Faire in a forest that is dying despite the efforts of its caretaker unicorn. The trees and the unicorn will do anything to draw on Keelie's power, no matter what it does to Keelie, or to anyone else! Add in her relationship with the cross-grained cat who is her guardian, the stick-like wood fairies, and the critical full-blood elves, and...more
Reviewed by Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen for TeensReadToo.com
After her mother passed away, Keelie Heartwood thought her life was completely over, especially when she head about having to live with her renaissance father. With her adventurous times there, from defeating evil fairies to finding out her magical abilities, Keelie started to adapt to her surroundings. She finally got to have that father-daughter bond that every girl should have, she made some really great friends like Ariel,...more
After her mother passed away, Keelie Heartwood thought her life was completely over, especially when she head about having to live with her renaissance father. With her adventurous times there, from defeating evil fairies to finding out her magical abilities, Keelie started to adapt to her surroundings. She finally got to have that father-daughter bond that every girl should have, she made some really great friends like Ariel,...more
Up until recently, Keelie lived in L.A. with her mother where her life consisted of nothing more than school, friends, and shopping. This life changed drastically when Keelie’s mother died in an airplane accident, leaving Keelie to live at a Colorado Renaissance Faire with a father she hardly knew. Soon after arriving, she learned that her tree allergy wasn’t really an allergy, but part of a magical power related to the fact that she is part-human/part-elf…the daughter of a tree shepherd.
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Excellent follow-up to "The Tree Shepherd's Daughter." The characters are well rounded and easy to get to know. The only negative that I have is that there is a very definite "good guy" and "bad guy" delineation, but it wasn't enough to put me off; and, one of the 'bad guys' was redeemed to a point near the end of the book. These books, like the Harry Potter books, are a good read for adults as well as young readers.
The plot was bad but not the worst ever, but the writing was too awful for me to finish the final third, and I'm not very picky. It's been so long since I read such a clunkily-written book that the only thing I could compare it to was the Baby-Sitters' Club. (Which I loved back in the day, don't get me wrong! But it's not what I want in my YA fantasy now that I'm a more sophisticated reader than I was at 8 years old.)
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Overall this book is better than the last. I would probably really give it 3.5 stars. Keelie continues to mature and starts to learn to trust others, and to let them help her while she learns to use her own gifts. She also starts to experience the real life consequences of her actions. Still a little to much clothing detail, though.
What to say...it was meant for pre-teen early teen adolescents. Keelie, the main character, is in my opinion shallow and 2 dimensional. All through out the book I got frustrated with her predictable behaviors from her hormones and uncontrollable attitude toward her own ignorance. I could only recommend this to someone who’s just beginning to read books for pleasure.
Another good book, but could be better. Like the first I found the writing somewhat lacking but the story is good enough that I definitely want to finish the trilogy. I don't think I'll buy them, but I'm glad the library has them!
Second in the YA Faire Folk series. Keelie and her father travel to another fair where the trees are sick and dying as is the guardian of the forest. Keelie learns more about her magic and reconnects with her Californian friend Laurie.
The second was as fun as the first ... I kept getting annoyed with Laurie's character, but could also understand why she was that way. I wish that the author showed a bit more character development for most.
I really liked the ren faire setting, it was interesting and unique. Keelie seemed a lot more like a real brat in this one though, and in the beginning it was harder to like her. Then, you remember she's 15 years old, and is acting like a 15 year old, and it's not so bad.
Cute, fairly interesting YA. Not very deep, characters are ok, but again, kept me reading till the end. Quick read, took me two days, reading in the evenings only.
Another good book in the trilogy. I still have a slight issue with everything being resolved in a few pages right near the end, but it's not something that is going to keep me from picking up the next book. I am really enjoying reading about Keelie growing as an elf and person. Can't wait to see what comes next!
This series, im afraid, is to old for me at my tender age of thirteen, as i write this. its got drugs and sex in it, so i decided (i being my mom) it was too old for me.
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While not as intriguing as the first book, since many mysterious questions have been resolved, this is still a great novel in an unconvential setting.
Like the first book of this trilogy it was amazing. It has a really great hook and it great for young teens.
Loved this book as much as the first one and can't wait until the third one comes out this summer.
In some ways, this book was even better than the first in the series and the first was great!
Really loved it. I was very happy with book 2. Not so much nasty in it:-) She has captivated my interest. I don't know where she is going with her books and so it leaves me anxious to read more.
UNICORN! this series has swallowed me, i finished this installment of the trilogy in 4 days
There were too many internal inconsistancies in this book from the first for me to really enjoy it. I kept going, 'Wait, What?'. Still, it's cute, light and fluffy. Even if I do feel the main character is inconsistent, and the villains to clearly deliniated.
A good fantasy for young new adults.
I keep telling myself that I will come back to this book and finish it since I don't have much left. But I can't seem to go back to it. Not because I didn't like it, I just feel indifferent. It just wasn't what I was expecting. I enjoyed the first one much more because I was expecting a fulfilling ending but it just kind of leveled out and i was left disappointed. And then this whole book hasn't built up a lot and I feel like I'm still reading the beginning of the book 75% in. So I'm reluctantly...more
A great second book that helps to build the suspense of the trilogy. The main character still makes me beleive in fairy tales. Charming and wonderfully written.
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A forest dweller, Gillian was raised by gypsies at a Renaissance Faire. She likes knitting, hot soup, costumes and adores oatmeal, especially in the form of cookies. She loathes concrete, but tolerates it if it means attending a science fiction convention. She's an obsessive collector of beads, recipes, knitting needles and tarot cards, and admits to reading InStyle Magazine. You can find her in h...more
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