What a joyous book. Heart-warming and fun with enough edge to keep it interesting. Almost made me want to pack up and leave London.

This book was fun and uplifting but not particularly exciting, I found it fairly slow at times. I loved the characters and their friendships, I would have loved to see a bit more of Sally. I really this was a fun, easy read.

This book is great. I genuinely believe everyone should read it. It's the perfect summer read, it is light-hearted with low stakes, and there's little to no conflict, except maybe for the last third of the book.

The plot is about a tight-knit group of friends deciding to go live in the countryside together, while the protagonist tries to get out of her comfort zone and overcome her crush on her best friend. It's a very simple plot indeed since the book is mainly character driven.

What I really liked about this book is the found family trope, both within the main characters and the main friend group, but also with the protagonist volunteering. I also really enjoyed the discussions about life, sexuality, and mental health present inside.

This book resonated with me in the best way. Like the protagonist, I have always had this thought in the back of my mind and this weight on my heart because I feel like I'm playing it safe and I'm wasting my time studying for a career I don't really see myself having a future in.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Wild Things was an enjoyable story with cute quirky characters. I enjoyed the narration and storytelling.

This book had so much potential to be a found family/uplifting self discovery book.
I actually quite like el, she is very much a people pleaser and I get that. Although her "friend"/love interest was honestly just horrible. I would have enjoyed the book much more if el realised her and Ray were better as friends. I was actually rooting for el and Rachel to get together.

I don't think I'd recommend this book. It just fell really flat for me.

Wild Things - Laura Kay

Having read a previous title by this author I was looking forward to meeting a new quirky character and joining them within their story of solving a life crisis they may be going through, and El did not disappoint. I very much enjoyed the setting for this book with the four main characters moving into a country house together (their own little commune) and even gaining a few new feathered friends along the way. Here we see El tackle many issue including job issues and a serious crush on best mate Ray. A lovely slow burn easy read book & looking forward to more from this author. Many thanks Netgalley, Quercus and Laura Kay for the E-arc in return for my honest thoughts and opinions.

The concept was interesting but I just did not like any of the characters which was a complete shame.

What a beautiful love story. I love the characters and their adventures. I especially enjoyed reading about the wild living ideas. Doing one thing a month that she wouldn’t normally do is such a great idea. Thinking about really living, not just existing. Woven in to this is a beautiful love story. Two friends who really should and do mean more to each other than just friends. An easy, entertaining read.

3.5. Wild Things is an enjoyable and, all in all, pretty light book detailing El's year of saying yes to wild things - or at least wild things for someone who has spent their life within the confines of 'good', 'proper' and 'safe' and so hasn't fully had a chance to experience things that might be a little riskier.

We're introduced to El and her friendship group, including Ray - El's best friend and biggest crush. As a group, they set out to add a new wildest thing to El's list - moving to the countryside. What ensues is the highs and lows of leaving city life, finding a new community, and sharing a hallway with someone you've long had a thing for.

This didn't really feel like a romcom to me, more of a finding yourself/your community, coming of age book instead, to the point that I thought the romance was going to go in a completely different direction to the one it took. Viewing it as a found family story instead, I loved the views of El's wider life that we got - the people she interacts with and her wider achievements that she doesn't necessarily acknowledge as the achievements they are. She felt real and relatable as a result and gave me something to root for regardless of how I felt about the romance plot. For it to really have hit the spot I'd have wanted to spend more time with her friends/general relationships to feel like they were more than supporting characters (potential love interests too.)

Overall, I really vibed with Laura Kay's writing style so I'll definitely pick up more of her work but with the idea that it might not be as romcom-y as I might hope.

I enjoyed this so much! This is a perfect book for the summer. Friends to lovers with a twist- as we’re also following a friend group- which I loved. The romance was good but the story of house renovation in the countryside stole the show for me. The Twilight chickens were a highlight. It just had all the cosy and fun vibes.

Loved the narration (I went the audiobook route with this one). Loved the representation. Loved Jamie. Everything else was very meh.

Though I loved the concept for this -Elena feels like she's kinda stuck in life and is committed to doing one wild thing every month-, the story was more about Elena being in unrequited love with her best friend and moving to the countryside with her and 2 other friends than anything else.

It was a nice story to listen to while doing something else, but it didn't grip me or leave me wanting more. Overall, it was pretty unremarkable.

This is the first book I've read by Laura Kay and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I loved the representation in the book and them all living together in a queer commune.
I feel anyone who reads this would be able to relate.
Though it was hard to believe that Ray didn't know that El was in love with her.
Some of the book was predictable (in my opinion)
I would definitely read more books by this author.

The most wholesome and heartwarming novel I’ve ready for a while. This audio gave me everything I wanted and more. I laughed out loud so much throughout the story and thought that Abigail did such a gorgeous job of bringing the characters to life with such a gentle and thoughtful tone throughout. I will definitely be recommending :)

This is a real lovely listen
I listen to this book via audio the narrator done a fantastic job of keeping you interested in the book.

I like how we see the El go through H we day to day life and the changed she goes through been a lesbain.

We have a great cast of characters with El, Ray,Jamie

It a beautiful tale flawlessly narrates a heart-warming tale of friends who become lovers. Through it a very slow burn and takes time to get to this point.

This is a very relatable book which many will see themselves in.

This novel includes a stunning depiction of LGBTQ+ relationships and is a great summer read. It was simple and enjoyable. The show's true stars were the pet chickens!

This was an easy book to listen to. The narrator did a good job. The story was a little dull, mostly because I was expecting more from the title, and I wish the romance was a bit more angsty. But, overall, it was enjoyable.

This book absolutely destroyed me and had me sobbing… Everything about it is just heartbreaking and beautiful, and just filled me with so much emotion… One of those books that will always stick with you once you’ve read it.

I got through this fairly quickly, it was an easy listen with great LGBT+ representation.

It's about four friends, El, Ray, Will and Jamie that decide to buy a house in the country to escape London. The book is told from El's perspective as she tries to do one wild thing a month fora year. All while transitioning from the city to the country, stuck in a job she hates, and having a crush on her best friend Ray.

For me, it was a slow starter but about a third of the way through picked up and I listened to it at every availability to know more.

Something I really enjoyed was the found family theme, and also that the book took place across a year with a time jump epilogue. Although this was available as an ebook, I really enjoyed getting the audiobook and the narrator was great.

I will definitely look out for more from Laura Kay.

Eleanor is a young bisexual girl who has always have a crush on her best friend Ray. Both of them work at the same place, and Eleanor is nurturing a total one way love toward Ray. Eleanor has decided on the first day of the year to live a wilder life. And so she begins to loosen up : she's getting a tatoo, is tempted by a threesome, and so on.
One day, after a really big party, a wild idea emerge : buying a house with her friends Ray, Jamie and Wil, and begin a new life on the countryside. And there, it becomes more difficult for Eleanor for not telling Ray all her feelings.

I'm not really used to LGBT romances but not by a lack of interest, only by a lack of references. And I was very pleased by this slow burn trope, and friends to lovers. I would simply say that some parts were a little bit long (some descriptions, some facts), but otherwise, it is a really sweet story. And the narrator was really talented, I enjoyed the telling of this story.

El and Ray are best friends, but El wants more. El is doing a wild year, they also decide to move to the country with two other friends. The house needs a lot of work, but they are happy.

I listened to this book on audio, I loved the narrator, Abby really made the book come alive. It is well written, great characters which are reflected well in the book.

A funny, easy read.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for this audio book.

Many thanks to Netgalley, Quercus, and the author, for the ALC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Wild things truly started out as wild and I am not even kidding. We meet our MC El aka Eleanor in the middle of a threesome, or may be not really in the middle, lol. Anyways El is in a rut, she is stuck and don't know what to do about it. With a job she hates but goes to anyways, a house she hates but lives in anyway, a best friend she is in love with but can't do anything about, El is massively stuck. So she has decided to have her wild year, the year where she is going to be unapologetically herself, a year she will do all the things, she would have never otherwise, like have a threesome for example. But when even being wild starts becoming tiresome, she does the wildest thing yet, moves out of London with her best friends (one she loves and one she is in love with) and another close friend to live in the country like a commune? we all know its going to be a wild ride!

I loved the narrator on this one! They stole the show! and then we have Bella, Edward and Jacob, no not what you are thinking, they are not the vampire, human, werewolf love triangle but 3 rescue chickens!! The story was both believable and unbelievable! yet fun! It was truly a wild ride! That is to say, it left me wanting to quit my job and find something I love more, and go and live in a queer commune with my closest friends in the countryside! if that is not the desired effect that Laura Kay wanted then I don't know what is!