Book Review: The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth

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The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Overall, I like this book.

I did not know that Dortchen Wild and Wilhelm Grimm were married in real life when I read this for the first time, so the part towards the end when she is free of her father made for anxious reading; I was glad to discover they did marry, and the quote from Wilhelm's autobiography makes it seem that it was a happy marriage.

Herr Wild, Dortchen's father, is so very possessive of his daughters in the story that it raised a red flag pretty much straight away, and those parts of the story are very dark indeed. Other darkness, from the seeming never-ending wars and the constant shifting of control of the area between German, French, and Russian power was well done, and I learnt a few things about herbology in passing that I hadn't known before.