Kim Cormack's "Wild Thing"

A Teen Paranormal Romance With Some Kick

“Wild Thing” by Kim Cormack

Reviewed by Jessie D.

8/29/16

4:00 p.m.

Though only eleven years old, orphan Lexy has been forced to undergo unimaginable horrors and see things most adults would find difficult to stomach. Her experiences, however, have only served to make her fiercer and stronger than she ever imagined she could be. Kim Cormack’s Wild Thing tells Lexy’s story as she goes from forgotten foster care runaway to a fierce member of a partially immortal family called the Ankh.

After being shuffled from one foster home to the next, Lexy decides to make a run for it with a number of older kids in the system who share her desire for freedom. Once the makeshift gang of runaways experiences true hunger on the streets the situation begins to sour. The gang resorts to robbery and violence to fill their empty stomachs, and, when Lexy voices her opposition to their methods, she gets left behind. Lexy’s situation worsens when she is abducted by a man and taken to a farm where she experiences the horrors and atrocities that harden her into the ferocious dragon she was always meant to become.

Soon after she escapes the farm, Lexy meets Grey, her savior, who introduces her to the Ankh, and Lexy discovers that she finally has a place in the world.

Though the beginning of the novel is extremely graphic and violent, the overarching story is compelling and demands the reader’s full attention. Lexy is a heroine worth rooting for as she discovers her true self and what it means to be a Child of the Ankh.

This young adult paranormal romance is mature enough to be enjoyed by older readers yet still maintains an element of youthful humor. A thrilling story with plenty of excitement and action mixed in with a little romance, Wild Thing takes the reader on a captivating ride not soon forgotten.

I give “Wild Thing” 4 out of 5 stars.

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Jessie D.