🦇 This story was not what I was expecting at all, but it was everything I wanted and needed. It was folklore combined with romance and horror, with poetic writing woven throughout the book. I wanted to read it every chance I could, and when responsibilities kept me from reading, this novel was all I could think about.

🦇 Erin A. Craig has a beautiful way of creating a fictional world that reels you in. Every time I thought I knew what direction the story would go, I'd soon find out I was completely mistaken. I never wanted the story to end...

🦇 The only reason I couldn't give it 5 stars, was because I felt like the last part of the story felt slightly disconnected from the rest, and I wish the romance aspect had gone slightly differently in my opinion. Otherwise, I truly loved this book so much and can't wait to read more by this author! Also, thank you Erin for giving me a new book boyfriend. I absolutely adore Noah Finn. 🤍

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 stars
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✨If you love these tropes, give this book a try:✨

🦇Plot Twists
🦇Love Triangle
🦇Childhood Friends To Lovers
🦇Magic
🦇Quests
🦇Monsters/Mythical Creatures
🦇Forced Proximity
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🦇 A million thanks to netgalley and Pantheon for the eARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.
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TW: Please be sure to check for trigger warnings. Some triggers include gore, dismemberment, violence, physical assault, etc.

Erin Craig’s settings and atmosphere are always so unique! It was dark, gory, entertaining, and mysterious. I liked Greer as a main character and her story with Ellis. Although, in the last bit it felt like a few events happened just for shock value and the characters moved past it very quickly. Overall, I really enjoyed this and would recommend it

There’s something so intoxicating about the blend of folklore, longing, and the untamed wild, and I was utterly spellbound from start to finish.

I was so incredibly lucky to receive an ARC of this from Net Galley and I don’t think I’ve ever squealed louder at an email, so thank you very much to Knopf and Pantheon for letting me read this piece of art early.

The day that I rate an Erin A Craig book lower than 5 stars, please assume I am no longer me. Everything she has ever written is marvelous and A Land So Wide is no different. Her adult debut had everything I love about her writing, beautifully eerie prose, the ache of a longing love, and above all else a mysterious dark magic.

A Land So Wide takes us to Mistaken, where a colony of people live behind the Warding Stones that protect them from the ravenous Bright-Eyeds, ready to pounce on anyone out after dark. Greer Mackenzie is faithful to the Benevolence, the makers of the stones, and yet she yearns to document the world beyond
their gift.
I have to say- I loved Greer Mackenzie. She was so determined to do what she knew was right and ultimately sure of herself and who she wanted to be. She was not afraid to say what she thought, even in a setting historically where what women think is undervalued. She used her strengths to help her community and pursue the man she loved without thinking about it.
When the man she is to marry, Ellis, disappears past the stones she stops at nothing to find him, and finds out so much about the world she grew up in because of her journey.

I would read this again and again without being bored (and I’m going to when I get my physical copy in September). It just grips you and pulls you in. I savored every single word in these pages and dreaded it being over, but it really, truly was everything I could ask for.

ahhh so excited to have received this arc!! she is one of my favorite authors and this is my most anticipated read of the year ✨ i will be posting my review on goodreads xx