![]() Eventually, Wake will discover five different kinds of spriteling, each with its own talents and weaknesses. Grey Coat introduces Wake to creatures called spritelings who live in this particular magical wood, and can be enlisted to help Wake fight monsters, gather magical items, and open paths to explore new areas. Just outside his back garden, Wake stumbles into a world overseen by a bearded man who doesn’t remember his own name and calls himself Grey Coat (even though his coat isn’t grey. Wake is looking for a way to get away from a father who spends all his time in front of the television after the death of Wake’s mother. If you choose to dive in-and don’t get me wrong, you can expect one or two dozen hours of perfectly satisfying environmental puzzle solving if you do-you’ll initially play the role of Wake, a boy probably around the age of Zipper from Gravity Falls who looks a bit like he has cat eyes but doesn’t actually. ![]() It’s charming and occasionally clever, but as a whole it all just feels kind of familiar. The female lead is spunky and probably has superpowers. The male lead is a boy who has lost his mother. The art design feels like Disney’s Gravity Falls mixed with Infinite Fall’s Night in the Woods, set in a slightly less ominous version of Over the Garden Wall’s teapot-punk fairy tale woods. Broadly, The Wild at Heart is a take on Nintendo’s Pikmin games, with a semi-open-world environment that progressively unlocks for the player in a manner similar to Traveller’s Tales’ LEGO video games. Even if you aren’t religious, you can still view the Bible as literature and learn several lessons from Eldredge about the masculinity and the role men play in life.It is difficult to talk about The Wild at Heart without referring to a long list of other media. I would also recommend this book to young adults and men that are of Christian/Catholic faith. Glover, I highly recommend reading this book. If you’re a fan of “12 Rules for Life “ by Peterson or “No More Mr. There are plenty of insightful lessons that readers will learn from reading this book, such as the three things men desire, the three things women desire, the role of adventure in life, the role that men and women play in each other’s lives, and what men need to do to feel alive. The book is about 200 pages and is easy to read. However, I decided to take a chance–no risk, no reward I thought. That is the role of a masculine man.īefore reading this book, I had never heard of John Eldredge or any of his other work. Go to battle with the things that are trying to sabotage your soul and defeat them. However, some of the toughest battles a man will face, are the battles inside of them. Men do not let people take advantage of them–they stand up for themselves and those that cannot defend themselves.Īs mentioned earlier, men have a desire to go to battle. Men should not run away from their problems–they should face them head-on. Instead, men should choose to live out their strength and purpose the right decision. As the quote says, taking a bribe or refusing to confront an issue are forms of sabotage that chip away at a man’s masculinity. Just as God fights the devil, man must fight the traitor within them that tells them to do the wrong things. What a man really wants, Eldredge says, is to be a hero to the person he loves.Įldredge says that within each person, there is a civil war going on. Young men going off to war carry a photo of their sweetheart in their wallet” writes the author. “A man wants to be the hero to the beauty. Romeo has Juliet, King Arthur had Guinevere and Robin Hood had Maid Marian.Įldredge writes that for a beautiful woman, men will storm the castle, slay the dragon–or in modern times, hit a game-winning shot. Men are made to go into the unknown and conquer it.Ī man’s last desire is to find a beauty to rescue. In every James Bond and Indiana Jones film, the main character goes on an adventure that tests them as a man and makes them stronger afterward. “Adventure requires something of us, puts us to the test,” says the author. The desire for an adventure to live is also part of being a hero in one’s own life. In almost every famous film, the main character has to fight something or someone to become a hero (ex. The desire to battle can also be found in books and movies. Even as kids, boys want to play war and attack something–whether it be another person or an object like a ball. In the bible it even says that “the LORD is a warrior the LORD is his name” (Ex. He argues that aggression is part of the masculine design and that men are hardwired for it. Eldredge writes that the desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live and a beauty to rescue, are the three things that men desire most.
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