It feels plain, especially in the first few chapters, full of telling and detached emotion.

Yet where he excels, I also reluctantly found fault.

I enjoyed running on a South America-like street with Rollan, being pampered (ephemerally) in an Asian palace with Meilin (Since I'm Asian, the discrepancies in the Asian worldbuilding stood out to me more than the other ones did still, it is a commendable effort on Mull's part to make it as reminiscent of Asia as possible without compromising the story's overarching world), shake with terror in a Medieval England-esque surrounding alongside Conor, and hunt through wild forests with Abeke that brings images of Native American tribes to the mind. I found it fascinating how he managed to twist four cultures into a cocktail of a world that, though anachronistic, surprisingly retained many of the elements of each culture when it would've been much easier to neglect their foundations. Since I'm just a tad above the targeted age range and the complete opposite of my brother, I can't sing praises for Wild Born without a few (or, I suppose, one really big) reservation(s).įirst off, though: Brandon Mull is excellent at world-building. Rollan, lastly, is my favorite because he is so funny. They're all smart, maybe not like Meilin but, while Meilin is the best fighter which is cool because she's a girl ***, everyone else can fight well in their own awesome way. Abeke was the first to learn how to turn the spirit animal into a tattoo. Conor learned how to use his spirit animal faster than everyone else, which was cool. It is also good because it switches from person to person so I can get more information from different places. I also really liked the plot because it tells you a lot about the spirit animals world, which is very fascinating**. They each had better spirit animals than other people, which is really interesting because they must be awesome to have such cool spirit animals. The main characters got the Fallen Four spirit animals, which is so cool. Let's have my ten-year-old brother take it away first: Talk about creative! My brother and I've both been big fans of Scholastic's multi-author series, and this one, Spirit Animals, is no exceptions. (Note: Due to copy-and-paste, formatting and most links have been lost.)

Wild born by brandon mull