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Text to Self - Under Wildwood

I am currently reading the book Under Wildwood by Colin Meloy. This book is the second in a series of three. This story takes place in modern day Portland, Oregon. The main character is a 12-year old vegetarian girl named Prue McKreel. In the first book, her younger brother, Mac, was kidnapped by a murder of crows and taken into "The Impassible Wilderness". She then, along with her friend had to rescue her brother and defeat the evil Dowager Governess who had kidnapped her brother and was going to sacrifice him to the ivy so that she could take over all of Wildwood. In the second book she has returned home but feels an unceasing longing to return to the adventures of Wildwood. Her friend Curtis is still in Wildwood learning to become a bandit and back in Portland his family continues to search for him. An assassin is then sent by unknown adversaries to find and kill her. Curtis comes to her rescue and takes her to the bandit camp so that she will stay safe.
         I can connect to this book because of the fact that Prue wants to return to the adventurous life of Wildwood. I was never involved in something like what Prue has gone through, I would definitely want to continue that adventurous life. Once you get a taste of adventure, it becomes a persistent longing. I also connect to the fact that Curtis' sisters Elsie and Rachel did not want to be dropped off at Joffery Unthank's Home for Wayward Youth which was an orphanage that they were to stay at for two weeks while their parents went off in search of Curtis. I personally have not been dropped off at an orphanage but I do not like the feeling of someone close to me just dropping me and leaving even if it is for a good reason. Nobody wants to be left behind in any circumstances.
         I really like the way that the author portrays all of the characters and how this book is told from three different points of view, Prue, Elsie and Rachel and Mr. Unthank. They all have very different perspectives and tell different parts of the story and it makes the reader slowly put all of the piece of the story together and make you excited and engaged in your reading. Though one thing that I did not really enjoy was the character of Desdemona. She was just written kind of weird and was hard to understand. Other than that this book was very enjoyable and I would recommend it to anybody.
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