A review by watermelonvodka
The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker

2.5

This was... very incredibly okay.
I hated the main character. 
I hated how childish both Jonah and Calla were towards each other.
Jonah didn't feel like a full person until almost the end of the book for me. We got such tiny little snippets of him, and most of them were him being mean or just not saying much.

And the fact that he STOLE HER LUGGAGE AND CONTINUED TO LIE ABOUT IT IS INSANE. And then Calla just CUT HIS HAIR AND HIS BEARD!? WHILE HE WAS SLEEPING!? AND HE DIDN'T WAKE UP!? COME OONNNNN... and then Jonah STOLE HER MAKEUP I'm sorry, are they seven years old??? And then they just had sex after?? And just liked each other and cared about each other all of a sudden? there wasn't even any development around Calla not having access to her makeup. We just got to find out at the very end of the book that she hadn't gotten it back and went the whole time without wearing makeup.

I also thought Calla was purposely rude and annoying so she could learn and we could watch her grow, but she didn't grow. Oh, she wears less makeup now, ooh. So much growth. I found the love in this to be so immature and also super out of the blue. It didn't have any sort of gradual or natural-feeling development. 

I cried when her dad died though so I guess that's something.

this review sounds like I hated this book, but I didn't hate it. There were things I hated about it... and overall it was just very okay for me. Ha.