#wilderwood series

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Book 1: For the Wolf                  Book 2: For the Throne

Series: Wilderwood

Author: Hannah Whitten

Genre: fantasy, romance

Synopsis [fantasticfiction]:  The first daughter is for the Throne. The second daughter is for the Wolf. As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose—to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he'll return the world's captured gods. Red is almost relieved to go. Plagued by a dangerous power she can't control, at least she knows that in the Wilderwood, she can't hurt those she loves. Again. But the legends lie. The Wolf is a man, not a monster. Her magic is a calling, not a curse. And if she doesn't learn how to use it, the monsters the gods have become will swallow the Wilderwood—and her world whole.

Chibi: This is a must read! I can’t even pick which one I love more. Each sister is amazing on their own and their partners are to die for.

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PRELIMINARY ROUNDS! MATCH 8 OUT OF 10

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Priya:

Ok I haven’t read these books in a while but basically she’s a minor character in this series and from what I remember she does kill several wolves also something about the main character and looking back on how much she’s grown. Anyway I loved this book series so much when I was in middle school <3

Red:

Idk I just find them really compelling for a Red Riding Hood inspired character

Red Riding Hood:

She tamed the Jabberwocky and calls it "Kitty". She calls the Big Bad Wolf her "puppy". She's kind of really creepy.

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Book 2 of the Wilderwood duology

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Title: Wilderwood

Author: Hannah F. Whitten

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, fantasy, romance, retelling

Blurb: The first daughter is for the Throne; the second daughter is for the Wolf. As the only second daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose: to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he’ll return the world’s captured gods. Red is almost relieved to go. Plagued by a dangerous power she can’t control, at least she knows that in the Wilderwood, she can’t hurt those she loves again...but the legends lie. The Wolf is a man, not a monster; her magic is a calling, not a curse. If she doesn’t learn how to use it, the monsters the gods have become will swallow the Wilderwood - and her world - whole.

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Those born of darkness will carry it in their nature: Reviewing The Foxglove King (Book 1 of The Nightshade Crown series) by Hannah Whitten

Hey everyone! I’m still around and still reading diligently. Adjusting to a new sleep schedule is never easy at first. I’m also back with a fantasy novel for the first time in (what feels like) forever. Feel free to read my review of Hannah Whitten’s The Wilderwood Duology if you are so inclined. I don’t want to ramble on too much more so let’s talk about The Foxglove King. Content Warning:…

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Captive in the Underworld by Lianyu Tan | Clara’s Soldier: A Retelling of the Nutcracker by Brittany Fichter

Dark Olympus Series by Katee Robert

Hate To Want You by Alisha Rai | Howl’s Moving Castle Series by Diana Wynne Jones

The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff | The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

Love In Color: Mythical Tales From Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola | Love Lessons in Starcross Valley by Lucy Knott

The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Playing Hearts by W.R. Gingell | The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

Red, White, And Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston | Reluctant Royals by Alyssa Cole | Romancing the Inventor by Gail Carriger

The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas | Spiritwalker Trilogy by Kate Elliott | Stalking Jack the Ripper Series by Kerri Maniscalco | The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi | The Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone | To Sir, With Love by Lauren Layne

A Villian's Ever After Series

Wicked Villains Series by Katee Robert | Wilderwood Series by Hannah F. Whitten

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

🌼 Spring of the Series 🌼

September Update

well, I attempted 9 different series this month and I’m happy to say I completed most of them! the ones I tried were:

Into the Crooked Place duology by Alexandra Christo - 0/2

The Mirror Visitor series by Christelle Dabos - 0/4

The Rosewood Chronicles by Connie Glynn - 2/2 *

Harper Connelly series by Charlaine Harris - 1/4

Daughter of the Pirate King duology by Tricia Levenseller - 2/2

Liars series by E Lockhart - 2/2

Crown of Coral and Pearl duology by Mara Rutherford - 2/2

Wilderwood duology by Hannah Whitten - 2/2

Sky in the Deep duology by Adrienne Young - 1/2

I have 24 complete series still on my TBR to choose from so hopefully I can get that number under 20 in October. I’ve also decided not to buy anymore series while I’m doing this challenge - I can’t get the number down if I keep buying more series, y’know?

here’s to many more wonderful series in October!

* I read the last 2 books, having read the previous 3 as they released

[bmacreadz]

"For the Wolf" by Hannah F. Whitten

"For the Wolf" - if you didn't know - is a dark fantasy romance novel that is the first of two books in the "Wilderwood" duology.

This book follows Redarys - aka Red - as she is sent into the Wilderwood to be ravaged by the Wolf in an effort to keep her kingdom - and her world - from the wrath of the wolf. Once Red enters the Wilderwood, however, things are not as they have always been perceived. The wolf is not a monster, in fact, he's a man. An ornery man that, at first, wants nothing to do with her and would actually rather her leave the forest altogether.

Despite his disinterest in her presence, "The Wolf" - aka Eammon - begins his coexistence with Red at the Keep and mysteries begin to unfold. Red finds herself a part of a much larger world with a much more complex problem than she ever realized. All the while, her sister and friends back home are fighting for ways to save her from the Wilderwood and the Wolf and bring her back home.

"For the Wolf" is an incredibly complex story - one that is a little bit hard to follow, if I'm honest. The magic of the Wilderwood and how it worked didn't really make that much sense to me as I was reading it. I found myself having to go back in the story, trying to piece things together to get a better understanding. And even that didn't fully help me.

I can reconcile not fully understanding the mystery of something when the novel is part of a series, so I'm holding out total judgement for after I've read the second - and final - book, "For the Throne." I'm hoping it will answer some lingering questions, and really get into the mystery of the Shadowlands.

This book has been compared to "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Beauty and the Beast," but I can't seem to find correlations to those fairy tales anywhere. Besides the obvious of course, which is that there is a "wolf" who is actually a man, and a lady whose name is Red.

I liked this book mostly for the romantical element. I understood Eammon's fear at letting Red into his world and not wanting her to be involved. He was wracked with the centuries of guilt from his past failures with the other "Second Daughters," and he wanted to keep her clear of any harm. Though, it was a relief when Red finally started to understand her power and Eammon let her work with him to try and save the Wilderwood. Their connection flowed brilliantly, and I loved reading how Eammon slowly softened around Red.

I also really enjoyed watching Red's growth throughout the book. She had lived twenty years with a single purpose - to die for the wolf. When she found out that her life could be something more, she wanted to do everything she could to make it as meaningful as possible, and help solve an essentially unsolvable problem.

Overall, this story was good - not great. Despite the twists and turns of events, some things were still pretty predictable. Though, the ending was surprising and I'm excited to see where the story goes next.

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For the Throne cover, Wilderwood #2

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Redarys from Wilderwood Series by Hannah F. Whitten

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (June 7th, 2022)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

TJ Powar Has Something to Prove by Jesmeen Kaur Deo

A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

Happily Ever Island by Crystal Cestari

Game of Strength & Storm by Rachel Menard

The Gravity of Missing Things by Marisa Urgo

This Place is Still Beautiful by Xixi Tian

Exactly Where You Need to Be by Amelia Diane Coombs

Relic & Ruin by Wendii McIver

Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer

Fireworks by Alice Lin

Zyla & Kai by Kristina Forest

Slip by Marika McCoola

The Holloway Girls by Susan Bishop Crispell

Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder by Various

The Signs & Wonders of Tuna Rashad by Natasha Deen

Before Takeoff by Adi Alsaid

We All Fall Down by Rose Szabo

New Sequel: 

Empress Crowned in Red��(Witches Steeped in Gold #2) by Ciannon Smart

Rise of the Snake Goddess (Samantha Knox #2) by Jenny Elder Moke

Curse of Shadows (Amassia #2) by A.K. Wilder

The Gifts that Bind Us (All Our Hidden Gifts #2) by Caroline O'Donoghue (this particular edition releases today)

For the Throne (Wilderwood #2) by Hannah F. Whitten

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Happy reading!

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PRELIMINARY ROUND INFO

Preliminaries will be posted on Friday, August 4 at 12 PM EST. There will be 10 polls and they will each last a week. There will be 24 participants and 10 winners that will make it into Round 1.

Unlike standard tournament rounds, which will all be 2-poll rounds, preliminaries will have a few 3-poll rounds in order to reduce the amount of submissions to get to a 32-bracket.

Here is a list of the matchups:

Ringo Akai (Okami-san and her Seven Companions) vs. Akazukin (TAISHO x ALICE)

Little Red Riding Hood (Unmatched: Little Red Riding Hood vs. Beowulf) vs. Sasha as Little Red Riding Hood (Bratz: Kids Fairy Tales) vs. Little Dead Riding Hood (Clawdeen Wolf) (Monster High: Scarily Ever After)

Amy Lee (Call Me When You're Sober MV) vs. Little Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs (Music)

Red (Revolting Rhymes) vs. Shang, Tao, and Paotze (Lon Po Po) vs. Little Red Running Shorts (The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales)

Priya (The Ever Afters) vs. Red (The Wilderwood series) vs. Red Riding Hood (The Sisters Grimm)

Clara (Honkai Star Rail) vs. Elvira & Arabelle (Guardian Tales) vs. Lamb (Little Lamb)

Little Red Riding Hood (Monty Python) vs. Lil' Red (Shrek 2)

Lian Harper (Kingdom Come) (DC Comics) vs. Scarlet (The Red Hood) (Webtoon)

Little Red Riding Hood (Smile Precure) vs. Little Red Riding Hood (Petia and the Little Red Riding Hood)

Jenny (In the Forest, She Grew Fangs) vs. Scott McCall (Teen Wolf)

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[yabookrevu]

For The Wolf - Hannah Whitten

Okay, so... First book to review is this one:

This book is most def not what I expected. Look at the cover. Just look at it. Can you guess what this is a retelling of?

If you said “Little Red Riding Hood”, you’re wrong. Mostly. It’s Little Red Riding Hood in that the main character is named Red, she wears a red hood, and she goes into the forest to find “The Wolf”. That’s all covered in the first 20 pages. After that, it’s something else entirely.

Is it closer to Beauty and the Beast? Perhaps. But the magic in this version doesn’t lean toward talking candelabras and wardrobes that bodyslam villagers. The magic is more of a growing magic, a connection magic. Maybe “the true magic is the friends we made along the way” magic.

I want to avoid spoilers, because (unlike a lot of the books I read) I actually want you to read this one. So just some things I enjoyed or didn’t:

- The story goes back and forth between what is happening in the forest and what is continuing OUTSIDE the forest. If you’re a fan of political machinations, these bits will intrigue you greatly. They bored me. It is what it is.

- There is romance. It’s a YA book, what did you expect? One thing this book does well is that when the actual romance happens, it has been EARNED. A lot of these books go from “we hate each other” to “we’re making out and planning a future” in a couple of pages. Not this one. This isn’t an enemies to lovers slow burn, because there are no enemies, but it is a slow burn nonetheless.

- Anything that’s good doesn’t last for long in this story. It’s kind of heartbreaking. The happy ending is not what you thought it was, and every happy ending before that is broken by the time the story ends. That bit is unfortunately realistic.

- This is more about the physical book than the story inside, but the book has those “rough cut” pages. The ones where the ends don’t all line up so that it looks like an old book. Personal irritation for me, but some people love them. I find that it makes it hard to turn the page.

- You gotta PAY ATTENTION to this book. What you think will just be a one-sentence throwaway line or a little bit of background history/worldbuilding will become important later. Over and over again. Words are NOT wasted in this book.

I enjoyed it. I recommend it. Will you enjoy it? Who knows? But I sure as hell did, and I think it’s worth your time to check it out.

For The Wolf, Hannah Whitten, $17.99 (on sale for $15.99 at Barnes & Noble), First in the Wilderwood Series, 430 pages

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★ — PERMANENT STARTER/MEME CALLS

★ — DC

christopher smith / peacemaker, peacemaker, dceu cliff steele, doom patrol edward nygma / the riddler, gotham flex mentallo, doom patrol harley quinn, dceu khione snow, the flash ralph dibny / the elongated man, the flash rita farr, doom patrol

★ — DISNEY

anna agnarrdatter, frozen evie grimhilde, desdendants lela dane, teen beach movie mabel pines, gravity falls sammy smee, descendants sox, lightyear

★ — FILM

barbie roberts, barbie bethany walker, jumanji evie jackson, the invitation frankie stein, monster high ken carson, barbie lucy billington, the invitation walter de ville, the invitation

★ — LITERATURE

kit snicket, a series of unfortunate events neve valedren, the wilderwood duology by hannah whitten raoul de chagny, the phantom of the opera redarys valedren, the wilderwood duology by hannah whitten sally beckett, lost boy by christina henry

★ — MARVEL

doreen green / squirrel girl, squirrel girl, marvel cinematic universe ikaris, marvel cinematic universe sylvie laufeydottir, loki, marvel cinematic universe steve rogers / captain america, marvel cinematic universe vision, the visions, marvel cinematic universe

★ — NETFLIX

allison hargreeves, the umbrella academy cat king, dead boy detectives charles rowland, dead boy detectives john b. routledge, outer banks klaus hargreeves, the umbrella academy monty finch, dead boy detectives niko sasaki, dead boy detectives reggie peters, julie and the phantoms

★ — STAR TREK

saavik, the original series t’pring, strange new worlds trip tucker, enterprise q, the next generation q junior, voyager

★ — THE CW

landon kirby, legacies sebastian durand, legacies nancy drew, nancy drew samandriel, supernatural

★ — ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

arabella van pelt, descendants kaylee thompson, fandomless witch

★ — OTHER FANDOMS

carly shay, icarly kit baxter, the red panda adventures malia tate, teen wolf max wolfe, gossip girl proinsias cassidy, preacher rikki chadwick, h2o: just add water princess unikitty, the lego movie, unikitty!

[booknerdteen]

★★★★★ 4.9

I want to be For The Wolf.

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As the second daughter 20-year-old Red has only one purpose. And it is to be sacrificed to the wolf in return for the captured kings. Red is relieved to go- as she has been plagued by her powers and the farther she goes- the fewer people she can hurt. As she journeys into the Wilderwood and meets the wolf- she discovers that everything she knows is a lie. The wolf is no monster. And her magic will not damn but protect everything and everyone she loves.

The Writing was beautiful. I loved the writing style and although the book was divided into Red’s and Neve chapters the immaculate writing style always held my attention. It was also incredibly detailed and dark which I always love. /srs

The Plot was borderline mysterious and creepy. Not only was it spot on but there were so many plot twists that my head was left spinning by the end of this book. I’m a fan of little red riding hood so this was so refreshing. It was also incredibly original and entertaining. /lh

The characters were fairly enjoyable. I found myself taking a liking and yearning for Red’s chapters more. And although both sisters were the main characters. I felt like the book leaned more to Red’s story than Neve's. /gen

❞𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆.❞

Red is a very relatable character. And although I didn’t agree with some of her decisions- I still really enjoyed following her. Her character growth was amazing! Not only did she start really living her life by the end of this book. But she also gained a sense of purpose and I could definitely see the difference between the beginning and now. We don’t really get to see much of Neve so I don’t know much about her characteristics but she seems like an amazing sister that would do anything for her sister. And that’s the kind of sister we love. /lh

❞𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒔…𝑰 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒍𝒇, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒘𝒐𝒐𝒅.❞

Overall I absolutely can’t wait for the next book in this series and I’m hoping for more information and clearance with Neve because this book did not do her justice. I really appreciate this book and loved its entire setting and texture. As always I apologize if my review was offensive or disrespectful to you. And if so please let me know how I can fix that. Thank you for taking the time to read this review. /pc /lh

A special thanks to Orbit Books and Netgalley for this eArc!

~Till Next Time!

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