The Grace of Wild Things

De: Heather Fawcett

Narrado por: Aven Shore

An inventive and fantastical reimagining of Anne of Green Gables—with magic and witches!—that explores found family, loss, and the power of a girl's imagination, from the acclaimed author of The Language of Ghosts and The School Between Winter and Fairyland. Perfect for listeners who loved The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Serafina and the Black Cloak.

"A magical, witchy, and thoroughly successful homage to a classic." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Grace has never been good at anything except magic—not that anyone believes her.

While other children are adopted from the orphanage, nobody wants Grace. So she decides to make a home for herself by running away and offering herself as an apprentice to the witch in the nearby woods. After all, who better to teach Grace to use her magic? Surely the witch can’t be that bad.

But the witch is that bad—she steals souls for spells and gobbles up hearts. So Grace offers a deal: If she can learn all 100½ spells in the witch’s grimoire, the witch will make Grace her apprentice. But if Grace fails, the witch can take her magic. The witch agrees, and soon an unexpected bond develops between them.

But the spells are much harder than Grace expected, and when a monster from the witch’s past threatens the home Grace has built, she may have to sacrifice more than her magic to save it.

©2023 Heather Fawcett (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers

Magical & Cozy

Great adaptation. Truly captured the magic of Anne of Green Gables and the imagination of Anne and presented everything in a new way with some twists. Loved all the characters. Definitely gives you a cozy, magical experience.

Sweet story

I thought this story was delightful. It was well written with great characters. I loved how she spoke about language and nature. It took me back to an earlier magical time when just exploring the wonders of the woods was a perfect day.

Magical Anne of Green Gables Homage

I read all of the Anne of Green Gables books when I was a kid. I thought the author nailed this magical reimagining of Anne Shirley. Enough similar plot points and characteristics to harken back to the original, but something completely its own as well. Very well done…I loved it! I was not familiar with this author before but loved this enough to look her up and see that she has many well-loved adult books as well. I queued one of those up for my next Audible listen!

Recommend

Just wonderful, it made me remember the way I used to see the world. I loved it. :)

Best way to escape is a YA comfort read including magic and adventure.

Love YA books that are comfort reads, while also keeping you on the edge of your seat because you get so invested into the world of magic and fairies as they describe it. I will say the ending was a bit unexpected and I felt like a lot of details in the ending were pretty blurred for a standalone. I’m still curious about certain aspects that were resolved vaguely, although it still summed things up enough to receive 5 stars.

Pretty good.

Good story for middle school age-adult (me haha). I love the author so this was a great story. My only complaint is that the narrator kind of sounded like she had grapes in her mouth while reading. But I was still able to get through the whole thing!

Very cute!!

Very cute story and hopeful when dealing with youth and grief. The characters are easily adored and the audiobook is well-performed.

Sweet Story

This was a sweet and enjoyable story, full of lessons and understandings that come with stepping into this world.

A sweet story about what is home and friendship

Lovely story, it made me laugh out loud and it brought me very close to tears as well. Very sweet, innocent and simple tail. I liked it a lot.

Whimsical and magical

A fun story of a young witch finding her path. I loved the nods to Anne of Green Fables.
I’d love to get a story from Rum’s home and POV.