--- product_id: 110293806 title: "Wild Beauty: A Novel" price: "£19.15" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/110293806-wild-beauty-a-novel store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Wild Beauty: A Novel **Price:** £19.15 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wild Beauty: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** £19.15 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/110293806-wild-beauty-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart.com: Wild Beauty: A Novel: 9781250180735: McLemore, Anna-Marie: Books Review: Stunning and Profound - Anna-Marie McLemore’s Wild Beauty is as complex as it is beautiful. Estrella and her cousins are part of a long legacy of Nomeolvides women who have cultivated the La Pradera gardens for the last century. Flowers bloom and flourish under their fingertips at will, but their enchanting gift is not the only inheritance passed down from mother to daughter. For the Nomeolvides women, their love is a curse upon the men they love. They either watch them disappear, some vanishing right before their lover’s eyes, or watch them walk away, never to be heard from again. When Fel, a mysterious boy, appears in their garden with no memory of who he is, the Nomeolvides women believe his arrival may mean the return of their past lovers. But Fel’s quest to discover who he is will uncover dark truths that will change the Nomeolvides women’s lives forever. McLemore once again dazzles with her storytelling ability. With lush and intimate descriptions, the gardens of La Pradera come to life. The setting is equal parts magical and strange. There is both darkness and light in the Nomeolvides’s world that the author is expert at exploring. The women in Wild Beauty are well-rounded and engaging. I loved how the author let’s the reader learn more about these young women as they learn about themselves. When the novel opens, Estrella and her cousins are desperate to outrun their family curse. Though history says that it is only men that disappear, none of them want to take the risk when it comes to Bay Briar. Bay has been a part of their world forever and ever since she lost her grandmother, who owned the land the Nomeolvides have cared for for generations, they feel even more protective of her. When they all discover that each of them has fallen a little in love with her, they take action, sacrificing their greatest treasures to La Pradera in exchange for Bay’s safety. McLemore focuses on the alienation these young women experience because of their gift, but she also explores how the possibility of finding love can alienate them from one another. It’s a consequence predicated on the idea that love is something that will eventually caused them pain. Fel adds another wrinkle to the story. The ease at which the Nomeolvides women welcome him into their family filled me with so much affection for them. Though sadness is ingrained in their world, it is their love for one another that motivates and drives them. There’s a growing affection between Fel and these women. They care for him like one of their own and he in turn feels the need to protect them. He wants to discover who he is, but there’s a part of him that is afraid of the truth and what this will mean for his relationship with these women. Estrella and her family are an ensemble I’d like to see more often. There are three generations of Nomeolvides women under the same roof who are joined by and large by their shared grief, but are inevitably separated by experience. While the older generations know grief intimately, the younger ones have not yet lost someone they love. The older women have walked this life for decades. They know what it’s like to love and grieve, to watch those closest to them crumble under the weight of loss, and what it’s like to give everything to the land that has both blessed and cursed them. Estrella and her cousins are only beginning to learn what it means to be a part of the Nomeolvides family. Wild Beauty is a multi-layered story that will have readers enthralled from the very first page. McLemore has crafted a novel that devastates readers both with its beauty and sorrow in equal parts. If you’ve never picked up this author’s novels, you are missing out on some of the most profound and stunning writing published in recent years. Review: A lush, hypnotic tale of family, love, and an extraordinary garden - Lush, hypnotic, and fiercely charming. It didn't draw me in as immediately or move me as deeply as Anna-Marie McLemore's previous book WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS. Yet WILD BEAUTY is still a gorgeously written tale of family, love, loss, and righting past wrongs. I enjoyed watching Estrella interact with her cousins; not only were their dynamics realistic, but they also revealed the subtle differences that made each girl unique. Plus, McLemore was born to write about flowers and gardens. Her rich descriptions of La Pradera and the ethereality of the Nomeolvides women's flower-growing abilities made the place seem so real that I wish this book wasn't the only way of visiting it. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,683,944 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #565 in Teen & Young Adult LGBTQ+ Romance #899 in Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy #1,033 in Teen & Young Adult Fantasy Romance | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (291) | | Dimensions | 5.5 x 1.6 x 8.2 inches | | Edition | Reprint | | Grade level | 7 - 9 | | ISBN-10 | 1250180732 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1250180735 | | Item Weight | 11.2 ounces | | Language | English | | Print length | 368 pages | | Publication date | October 9, 2018 | | Publisher | Square Fish | | Reading age | 12 - 18 years | ## Images ![Wild Beauty: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91B7M8-JJeL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stunning and Profound *by A***E on December 14, 2017* Anna-Marie McLemore’s Wild Beauty is as complex as it is beautiful. Estrella and her cousins are part of a long legacy of Nomeolvides women who have cultivated the La Pradera gardens for the last century. Flowers bloom and flourish under their fingertips at will, but their enchanting gift is not the only inheritance passed down from mother to daughter. For the Nomeolvides women, their love is a curse upon the men they love. They either watch them disappear, some vanishing right before their lover’s eyes, or watch them walk away, never to be heard from again. When Fel, a mysterious boy, appears in their garden with no memory of who he is, the Nomeolvides women believe his arrival may mean the return of their past lovers. But Fel’s quest to discover who he is will uncover dark truths that will change the Nomeolvides women’s lives forever. McLemore once again dazzles with her storytelling ability. With lush and intimate descriptions, the gardens of La Pradera come to life. The setting is equal parts magical and strange. There is both darkness and light in the Nomeolvides’s world that the author is expert at exploring. The women in Wild Beauty are well-rounded and engaging. I loved how the author let’s the reader learn more about these young women as they learn about themselves. When the novel opens, Estrella and her cousins are desperate to outrun their family curse. Though history says that it is only men that disappear, none of them want to take the risk when it comes to Bay Briar. Bay has been a part of their world forever and ever since she lost her grandmother, who owned the land the Nomeolvides have cared for for generations, they feel even more protective of her. When they all discover that each of them has fallen a little in love with her, they take action, sacrificing their greatest treasures to La Pradera in exchange for Bay’s safety. McLemore focuses on the alienation these young women experience because of their gift, but she also explores how the possibility of finding love can alienate them from one another. It’s a consequence predicated on the idea that love is something that will eventually caused them pain. Fel adds another wrinkle to the story. The ease at which the Nomeolvides women welcome him into their family filled me with so much affection for them. Though sadness is ingrained in their world, it is their love for one another that motivates and drives them. There’s a growing affection between Fel and these women. They care for him like one of their own and he in turn feels the need to protect them. He wants to discover who he is, but there’s a part of him that is afraid of the truth and what this will mean for his relationship with these women. Estrella and her family are an ensemble I’d like to see more often. There are three generations of Nomeolvides women under the same roof who are joined by and large by their shared grief, but are inevitably separated by experience. While the older generations know grief intimately, the younger ones have not yet lost someone they love. The older women have walked this life for decades. They know what it’s like to love and grieve, to watch those closest to them crumble under the weight of loss, and what it’s like to give everything to the land that has both blessed and cursed them. Estrella and her cousins are only beginning to learn what it means to be a part of the Nomeolvides family. Wild Beauty is a multi-layered story that will have readers enthralled from the very first page. McLemore has crafted a novel that devastates readers both with its beauty and sorrow in equal parts. If you’ve never picked up this author’s novels, you are missing out on some of the most profound and stunning writing published in recent years. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A lush, hypnotic tale of family, love, and an extraordinary garden *by V***N on November 22, 2017* Lush, hypnotic, and fiercely charming. It didn't draw me in as immediately or move me as deeply as Anna-Marie McLemore's previous book WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS. Yet WILD BEAUTY is still a gorgeously written tale of family, love, loss, and righting past wrongs. I enjoyed watching Estrella interact with her cousins; not only were their dynamics realistic, but they also revealed the subtle differences that made each girl unique. Plus, McLemore was born to write about flowers and gardens. Her rich descriptions of La Pradera and the ethereality of the Nomeolvides women's flower-growing abilities made the place seem so real that I wish this book wasn't the only way of visiting it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ it reads like a timeless fairy tale *by L***) on October 19, 2017* This book is magical realism with the emphasis on magic, the story of a family of women who can make flowers flow from their hands and a boy who seemingly appears out of the earth with no memory of who he is. Although it has at least a toehold attachment to the “real” contemporary world, it reads like a timeless fairy tale. The writing is gorgeous, I mean DROP. DEAD. GORGEOUS, full of magical gardens, curses, stars, and dragonfly-horses. The central romance, though one can see it coming, lands as lightly as feathers or flower petals. These virtues justify every one of the five stars I gave it. It does have a few drawbacks, though. The greatest is the pace: you have to be willing to give yourself completely to its slowly flowing river of prose without ever trying to hurry it, or you will be frustrated. Much as I liked the book, I almost dropped it a few times because I got tired of waiting for something to happen already. I didn’t drop it, and I’m very glad I didn’t, but it was a struggle at times. Perhaps relatedly, the characters were not strongly individual to me. I was eventually able to separate the five Nomeolvides cousins, but not by a lot. Bay Briar, the androgynous young woman the girls all had crushes on, sounded delightful, but I had only occasional glimpses of her. Reid, the villain of the piece, was simply a stereotype of the rich, entitled male. In short, the roles that the characters needed to play in the fairy tale greatly dominated over their identity as believable people. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who likes magical realism or the gentler variety of fantasy (Charles de Lint, say). 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