Wildwood

By: Colin Meloy

Narrated by: Amanda Plummer

Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's Summary

When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, Prue McKeel begins an adventure that will take her and her friend Curtis way beyond her hometown and deep into the Impassable Wilderness.

There they uncover a secret world in the midst of violent upheaval, a world full of warring creatures, peace-loving mystics and powerful figures with the darkest intentions.

What begins as a rescue mission becomes something much bigger as the two friends find themselves entwined in a struggle for the very freedom of this wilderness. A wilderness the locals call Wildwood.

Please note: Due to the age and nature of this archive material, the sound quality may vary.

©2012 Colin Meloy (P)2011 Canongate Books

love the story but.....

Would you try another book from Colin Meloy and/or the narrator?

yes Colin not the narrator

What other book might you compare Wildwood to and why?

narnia

What didn???t you like about the narrator???s performance?

she slurs and is hard to understand

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

yes

Any additional comments?

still worth listening to despite narration

bug

There's a lot of "bugs" in the mp3 files... I tried to download the files several times but it was always there. It's not all the time but it's pretty annoying when it happens...

Hmmmm....

If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?

Story is great but the accents are awful... They utterly distracted me from the story and it spoilt it for me.

What did you like best about this story?

The storyline was interesting

What didn’t you like about Amanda Plummer’s performance?

Really not strong on accents at all... Mixed up Northern, Irish and Scottish all in one sentence!?! Dreadful... Would've been far better to avoid them and let the Listener enjoy the story

What character would you cut from Wildwood?

None

Any additional comments?

Quality of the recording isn't great... 3 separate times the recording stutters and stalls and 'jams'. I feel let down & like I wasted my money a bit :(

quirky and endearing.

plummer 's performance, I felt, was mesmerising. other reviews say it was awkward and her accents were clumsy.
I felt I was for this very reason that her voice and performance matched the hipster, faux award, nerdy persona that was prevalent through the text. even the art work on and in the hard copy is a child like animation. The puposely imperfect childlike presentation in the narrative is simply, I feel, not an accidental flaw on Plummers part but a reflection on the entire body of work. I honestly don't feel like her accents were offensive (and I'm Irish!). I really loved this I've listened to it in its entirety at least 3 times and occasionally dip in and out of it when looking for a little light hearted day dreaming.. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE PART 2&3 RELEASED.

This recording is incomplete

The beginning few chapters are cut short at the ends. What a shame. I feel I’ve really missed out on getting into the story. This should have been checked before being released.

Awful accents, but great story

Fab book, great story, but Amanda Plummer's accents are just terrible. Her accent for the bandits keeps changing from some horrible mishmash of Irish, Scottish, Newcastle, Jamaican, to god only knows what. It is really distracting and a shame. Changing accents many times in one sentence, why did nobody tell her?

As another reviewer said this book also skips in places.

Disappointing

The recording has stuttering and skips

I’m enjoying the story a bunch, and I think Amanda Plummer’s performance is interesting (I like it overall, though it took some getting used to) but the big issue is that the recording itself has audio issues, particularly at the start of chapter 12. Kind of inexcusable to pay for something that’s broken like this, to be honest.