I would run to the train after work just so I can sit down and read this book, and I was so sad when it ended. A little girl raised by wolves is rescued in a small town, and she changes people's lives as she adapts to her new world. Really, really good story!!

3,5 stars


Uma menina é encontrada numa árvore. Encontra-se agarrada a um lobo. Está assustada, agitada e é preciso uma rede e tranquilizantes para a trazer até ao chão. Ellie, comandante de polícia da pequena cidade de Rain Valley , está encarregada de descobrir a identidade desta pequena criança que foi encontrada na orla do bosque. Desde cedo, Ellie se apercebe que há de estranho com a rapariga. Esta criança tem algo de selvagem em si, irracional. Não fala, recorre aos uivos para exprimir os More...

Going against the grain again (not something I’ve done a lot, thankfully – maybe 3 or 4 times in the last year and a half)

This dialogue in this book seemed to have a Lieutenant Horatio Caine (David Caruso in CSI Miami) undertone.

This is the third Kristin Hannah book I’ve read....I finished it in order to count the author in a reading group challenge on GoodReads – 3 books by each author to count....while the first two books I read were okay, they were in my opinion young teen novels.... But righ More...

This was an excellent book. The story was sad, about a young girl who was kidnapped and taken deep into the woods. How she survived, and what happens to her when she re-enters society. Kristin Hannah is one of my favorite Authors....this is one of her best.

I am really liking Kirsten Hannah! After reading Firefly Lane, my mom reccomended this book. It was good, the ending was the best part in that it made me cry and cry. I love when a book; someone's written thoughts; makes you so moved, that you laugh, cry, get mad at a character.

I do have to say at times, the characters did and said things that didn't feel in sync with the character development. I was very pleased with how Alice's character came out though. I did hope for a little more in that a More...

Wonderful! A surprising tale of a little girl found alone, an ostracized child psychologist who comes home to help her, the homecoming-queen-turned-cop sister, the flirtatious and wildly handsome doctor who has lost a lot in his past and a quirky town who stands by them all amidst a nationwide media frenzy. Everyone wants to know more about this little girl and the renowned-turned-shunned (and misunderstood) physchologist who is committed to helping her.

This story is filled with heartache, love More...

Loved it.....but really love most of her stuff. Read this in 4 days.

Interesting plot. I struggled with the quality of the writing, the easy/awkward introduction of a romantic subplot, and the oversimplification of "small town life". Just to start, in this book "small town life" = the REPEATED mention of who was homecoming queen 20 years ago by almost EVERY adult character in the novel, loads of uninformed gossip, the collective "best friendness" of the entire police department, etc., etc., & ...etc.

I also wish the child welfare issues were researched more c More...

Dr. Julia Cates, a once renowned child psychiatrist, has just had her practice, reputation, and life torn apart due to the scandalous death of one of her patients. Dejected and lost, she jumps at the chance to flee her current life when she receives a desperate call from her estranged sister, Ellie.

Back in their hometown of Rain Valley, Ellie introduces Julia to a child the town and media has dubbed as "the wild child." Found hiding high up in a maple tree, the child is unlike any Julia has ever More...

Ultimately an absorbing, touching, heartwarming story.

Having read three of Kristin Hannah's books, I am starting to get the impression that story openings aren't her strong point. As in the other books I've read by her, I had trouble getting into the characters and the story, but once the plot got rolling, I was hooked.

Hannah has the gift of engaging your emotions without making you feel manipulated. I think she pulls this off by creating characters that are true to their natures and to the eve More...

First of all let me start by saying I am a HUGE fan of Hannah. I am on a mission to read every single book written by this fabulous author!! This was a great read and I highly recommend it.

The novel introduces sisters Ellie Barton and Julia Cates who are extremely different individuals. Julia is a brilliant, dedicated, work-obsessed child psychologist in Los Angeles. Ellie is beautiful and confidant plus she was the homecoming queen in her day. Ellie is now the chief of police and still lives i More...

Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah is a fascinating and heartwarming read about two sisters who help a little missing girl that doesn't talk who just showed up in the small town of Rain Valley up in a tree with a wolf pup. Julia is a psychiatrist whose reputation is shot and has lost her clients and her confidence because of it but who returns to her home town when her sister, Ellie-the chief of police, calls her for help with the "wolf girl."

I liked this book very much. I was fascinated at how Julia More...

Ok, I am sure it seems that I am a little obsessed with Kristin Hannah lately, but it is actually my mom who is obsessed! She keeps buying and reading Hannah novels and them passes them to me when she is done. To be honest, I was growing really tired of Hannah. I almost passed on this book, thinking that I needed a break from these types of novels, especially since I did not love the last couple I have read. However, I loved this book. It is very different, and not just from other Hannah novel's More...

When this book was recommended to me, I was anxious to get it and start reading! I must admit, that for me, this book certainly didn't start out as a 4-star book. The writing was a bit simple and trite. I didn't know much about the plot before I picked this up and hadn't read any of the other reviews--I usually don't, so I am not predisposed prior to reading a book. As I read through it, it built momentum. Initially, I remember wondering how this book could've received 4 stars with this simple a More...

This book deals with a lot of interesting or thought provoking topics: responsibility of psychologists, love after divorce, second chances, going home, parenting, "wild child" (as in a child raised outside of society rather than a hippie or something), kidnapping, media, dangers of ignorant judgment, drunk driving, rights of biological parenting, etc. Yes, it covered quite a spectrum.

I thought most of the writing was very good. One description kind of threw me—when it said the clouds were the co More...

Magic Hour is a riveting read with much emotional consciousness on the human nature and condition. The most complex ideas and understanding of behavior, self-expression and connection embodies "Alice" who expresses emotions in the most primal, instinctive and limited way possible.

Alice is the mysterious young girl who appears unexpectedly in the town of Rain Valley without an identity and an unknown history. Immediately it is clear she is not simply an ordinary girl; she a girl unable to expres More...

Girl walked out of the woods and climbed into a tree, with a wolf pup in her arms. Just in time. She came out to save herself and those who vowed to help her.

Dr. Julia Gates, a child psychiatrist, released from a public-career damaging lawsuit. Ellie, the older sister a small town police chief whose biggest job is to provide rides home to drunk drivers. It's in her town where the unknown wild-child walks out of the woods, dirty, along and completely silent.

Ellie calls for help from the newest More...

Such a good book!!!!!!!! I read it all within a 24 hour period. I could not put it down!!!!! Magic Hour is like a modern-day Tarzan or Mowgli from Jungle Book. It is a story that centers around a young girl that was kidnapped as a baby and forced to live chained up in the woods in unsanitary, abusive, horrific conditions. She was there for several years with no proper nourishment and no one to truly care for her or even teach her how to speak. When she is about 7 years old, her captor disappears More...

OHMYGOODNESSOHMYGOODNESS!!!!!!! This book is ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY AMAZING. Darling little Alice touched my heart so deeply, whenever she was afraid I wanted to jump in the book and give a big huge hug. She was such a brave little girl to survive like that. Don't get me started on Julia, she is amazing, the way she got to Alice was so amazing (again the same word, I need to use another word - scratch that) she was STUPENDOUS! Max <3. He is spectacular, I love how he says the right things, not More...

I actually wanted to read Firefly Lane by the same author, but this one was easier to find, and it got pretty good reviews as well, so I started with this one.

Julia is an eminent child psychiatrist, but she's going through a tough time now. One of her previous patients went psycho, and shot and killed a few other children. Julia was being sued, because the grieving parents said that she should have been able to tell that her patient was undergoing such trauma and was dangerous to the public. Wit More...

This novel was profoundly moving and, simply put, an emotional rollercoaster ride. If you like feeling and experiencing what the characters are going through then you'll enjoy this novel. It's about one small girl who is traumatized and haunted from what she had to live through the past three years of her life in the wilderness. She shows up in a tree during "Magic Hour" (when the light is golden in mid-October) with a wolf pub in her arms after a storm had passed over the rainforest town of Rai More...

I really enjoyed reading this book! it was well written and made you connect and truly understand the characters! needless to say i read about 60% of the book in one day (sunday) and finished it 2 days later while sneaking a few reads during lunch and gym time. truly captivating!

it's about a pyschatrist whom has a public trial and her skills are questioned by the public and how she interacts with a"wild child", whom was raised in forest....the relationship they develop with trust, love and overc More...

Emotionally gripping story of a disgraced psychiatrist and a girl found in the woods. I was surprised how much I liked this and how attached to the characters I became. It is somewhat melodramatic and no work of high literature but the writing is solid and steadfastly avoids cheese in most areas that would normally be cheese-laden.

The setting is gorgeous and well-told (think Forks but written before the vampire invasion). It gives a haunting, dreary quality to the book that fits with the subject More...

I'm a huge Kristin Hannah fan, i think a large part has to do with her characters and the relationships that you as the reader develops with them. I loved this book! I couldn't put it down, and fell inlove with the story right away. A young girl who is raised be wolves after being kidnapped, turns up in a small town one day. Luckily, the chief of polices sister is a famed psychologist. The relationship that develops between Alice and Julia had me from the beginning. How Julia thought she was hel More...

I was just recently introduced to this author with Angel Falls: A Novelbut knew I needed to read more books by this author. I started this book Saturday morning and thanks to Nature classes, band reherseal and a long movie, I finished Saturday evening. Dr Julia Cates is a disgraced doctor recovering from a possible lawsuit and permament damage to her career. Alice is a traumatized child who wonders into her sister's town and turns their lives upside down. While Julia protects Alice and works wit More...

Magic Hour is the third book by this author that I have read. I have noticed the author, Kristen Hannah, really focuses her books on the dynamics of the releionships between the characters. Luckily, there is also usually other exciting things happening. In Magic Hour Dr. Julia Cates, a child phycologist, is faced with a major tragedy with one of her patients that jeopardizes her career and reputation as one of the best. Meanwhile back in her hometown her sister who is the chief of police of a ti More...

Given the reviews I seem to be very much in the minority, but I thought this was a wretchedly written book. It had an interesting premise. Two sisters in small-town Washington state, a child psychiatrist and the town's police chief, try to help a six-year-old feral child. My problem is that from the start the book took an overly melodramatic tone as it related Doctor Julia Cates facing a decision in a lawsuit about a tragedy involving a patient of hers. Her sister, Ellie Barton, is an incongruou More...

For the first half of this book, I thought I had missed the boat on this one because I wasn't feeling the love that my friends who had read this had for the novel. I enjoyed the second half of the book more. The plot is multidimensional with damaged people - sisters still competing who have troubled careers, a doctor hiding from his past in rural Washington, a feral girl with internal and external battle scars, and minor characters with eating and weight issues and bad romances.

What prevents th More...

Spoilers in review.

This is not the kind of book I would have picked myself. It was a title that was suggested as the first read for our online book club. And what's the point of a book club if you don't read something out of your comfort zone?

Honestly the first chapter or two were pretty "dry" and a little difficult to get through. But all books require some amount of character development I just had a hard time choking through the obviousness of this book's development. Once that was set up (i More...