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    The Wild Inside: A Novel

    By Jamey Bradbury

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    "The Wild Inside is an unusual love story and a creepy horror novel — think of the Brontë sisters and Stephen King." —John Irving

    A promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this unforgettable novel, set in the Alaskan wilderness, that is a fusion of psychological thriller and coming-of-age tale in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Chris Bohjalian, and Mary Kubica.

    A natural born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaskan wilderness, Tracy Petrikoff spends her days tracking animals and running with her dogs in the remote forests surrounding her family’s home. Though she feels safe in this untamed land, Tracy still follows her late mother’s rules: Never Lose Sight of the House. Never Come Home with Dirty Hands. And, above all else, Never Make a Person Bleed.

    But these precautions aren’t enough to protect Tracy when a stranger attacks her in the woods and knocks her unconscious. The next day, she glimpses an eerily familiar man emerge from the tree line, gravely injured from a vicious knife wound—a wound from a hunting knife similar to the one she carries in her pocket. Was this the man who attacked her and did she almost kill him? With her memories of the events jumbled, Tracy can’t be sure.

    Helping her father cope with her mother’s death and prepare for the approaching Iditarod, she doesn’t have time to think about what she may have done. Then a mysterious wanderer appears, looking for a job. Tracy senses that Jesse Goodwin is hiding something, but she can’t warn her father without explaining about the attack—or why she’s kept it to herself.

    It soon becomes clear that something dangerous is going on . . . the way Jesse has wormed his way into the family . . . the threatening face of the stranger in a crowd . . . the boot-prints she finds at the forest’s edge.

    Her family is in trouble. Will uncovering the truth protect them—or is the threat closer than Tracy suspects?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 20, 2018
    ISBN9780062742018
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    Jamey Bradbury

    Born in Illinois, Jamey Bradbury has lived in Alaska for fifteen years, leaving only briefly to earn her MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Winner of an Estelle Campbell Memorial Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters, she has published fiction in Black Warrior Review, Sou’wester, and Zone 3, and she has written for the Anchorage Daily News, TheBillfold.com, and storySouth. Jamey lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

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    • 3/5
      "I have always had a knack for knowing the minds of dogs. Dad says it’s on account of the way I come into the world, born in the open doorway of our kennel, with twenty-two pairs of canine eyes watching and the barks and howls of our dogs the first thing I ever heard."Tracy is an excellent musher, hunter, and trapper, in the wilds of Alaska, but she is lacking significantly in social skills.  She has a secret that her late mother passed down to her that has made her a loner, to her father's vexation.  Her cravings are getting worse and the stranger, Jesse, who showed up out of nowhere has brought another secret that could destroy her life altogether. See my complete review at The Eclectic Review
    • 4/5
      I won an Advance Readers Copy in a GOODREADS giveaway sponsored by William Morrow. Pretty good read, I would put this in paranormal genre, most definitely. The writing is solid and drew me in quickly. It still needs some more editing for grammar and punctuation. I hope it gets it before release.
    • 2/5
      Tracy has little if no filters when the wild side takes hold in Alaska. Her behavior becomes more antisocial after her mother dies. Her father is not equipped to deal with the monster she is becoming. This is not a battle of Tracy again the elements of nature. It is a slow decline into a feral state. The book requires editing for past and present tense.
    • 4/5
      Very unusual story which takes place in Alaska. The protagonist, Tracy, is a 17-year-old girl who could best be described as "feral," having a bizarre habit passed on to her from her mother which I cannot describe here. She and her father are "mushers" who keep and train dogs to run in the Iditarod and other such races. Tracy spends most of her time out in the wilderness, and I found the story to be quite engrossing, suspenseful, and at times beautiful except for that weird habit I mentioned earlier. This is a debut novel and a really good one, I think.