The Wren Hunt (The Wren Hunt #1)

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Review #1

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Mary Watson won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2006 and was included in the Africa39 project to identify 39 of the most promising writers under the age of 40 with the potential and talent to define trends in the development of literature from Africa and the African diaspora. The Wren Hunt is a YA coming of age novel set in modern Ireland where Wren Silke has grown up as an augur who has the ability to see patterns in ordinary objects. The augurs are in a battle for power with the Judges and Wren is sent on a mission to spy on some Judges and find an important stone which will assist the augurs to recover some of their powers. In the process she will learn that not all is what it seems and have her preconceived ideas and family loyalty tested to the utmost. It took me a while to get into the story, but I enjoyed the plot and the Irish magic that infused it in the end. I look forward to reading the sequel to learn more about these characters and world of magic

 

Review #2

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This is a difficult book to review. On the one hand, it’s beautifully written, the prose is fantastic, and the backstory has clearly been meticulously planned out. On the other hand, not much happens and that backstory makes things a little confusing.

Wren is an Augur, one branch of the old Druids of Ireland. Augurs are at war with Judges, the other branch, over magical sites called nemeta. Without nemeta, each side loses their powers. A nemeta can only work for either augurs or judges, not both. The judges are ‘winning’ at the moment, with more and stronger nemeta than the augurs have. Wren’s coven come up with a risky plan to have her work for the area’s leading judge to look for a map that will help them find nemeta. At least, that’s what Wren is told is the plan.

Of course there’s a handsome boy judge, and of course there’s double crossing and confusion and changes of information and Wren wavering from one group to the other. By the time the story ends I’m honestly not 100% sure which side she’s on; I’m fairly sure I know, but not certain.

The story’s unmoored in time, too. There’s one mention of Coke and one of a Kardashian. If not fir those I would have guessed 100 years ago.

Apart from those things, though, it’s a good, interesting story, and I’ll be watching out for the sequel.

Receiving an ARC did not alter my opinion in any way.

 

Review #3

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The Wren Hunt is a book about magical beings in our world, but I was totally unconvinced. It took me a long time to figure out where the setting was and even then I wasn’t completely sure. I had a hard time juxtaposing T.V’s and cans of Coke with the magical characters. They just didn’t seem to mesh well together, despite the authors best efforts. I’m not expecting to everything about the magical world or how it operates but we weren’t given enough throughout the beginning for me to really understand what was going on or how their world operated.

We open to a scene where Wren is chased through the woods by boys from the rival magic gang(family?). Apparently this happens every year and a trophy is taken. It’s unclear as to why they chase her and don’t celebrate the Wren Hunt like the rest of the world. It’s never mentioned why they don’t go to the police about the chase or why it even happens at all. I’m not sure what the Wren Hunt is even about.

I don’t sympathize with Wren nor connect with her. I don’t with any of the characters for that matter.

I’m not sure what I was hoping to get from this book, but I certainly didn’t get it. There was nothing that really stood out for me about this book and I spent most of the time confused and not really enjoying what I was reading.

 

Review #4

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The Wren Hunt was such a unique book. I loved the mythology, the long-standing feud between the two magical factions, and the juxtaposition of magic and the modern world. The Augurs and the Judges were both intriguing, I liked that the author delved a bit into the history of the conflict and explained more about each side. There were also some great family dynamics. I enjoyed seeing how the relationships between characters developed and changed over the course of the book. However, the ending felt a little rushed and incomplete to me. I was left with a lot of unanswered questions about the world and how certain aspects of the book tied in. Although this is a standalone, the ending really felt more like a setup for a sequel. That being said, The Wren Hunt was still an overall enjoyable read.

Disclaimer: I received this book for free from the publisher. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.