"S. E. Kiser's lyrical storytelling enchants like the wild itself in this quest for the impossible laced with dark magic and yearning." Ruth Frances Long
"In Hunt the Ever Wild, S.E. Kiser has crafted a dark story of societal entrapment and hidden desires, which gallops along like a twisted fairytale. An enticing and original fantasy story, the Lichtenwald forest will get under your skin almost as deeply as the characters who try to tame it." Laura Elliot, author of Awakened
"a glorious lyrical debut that haunts long after the reader exits its sentient forest." Shalini Abeysekara, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of This Monster of Mine
"Hunt the Ever Wild is an exquisite debut, full of all my favorite things: enchanted forests, a city that glitters as it rots, and a romance that sparkles. Through a gaslamp fairy tale of a world, the story grapples with the true meaning of beauty, riches, and the wild. There is such materiality in Kisers writing: to read is to be swallowed by the Lichtenwald, by the flora and fauna and magic. If you love folkloric, romantic tales like Howls Moving Castle, this book is for you." Rebecca Brodkey, author of Darker Than the Starless Night
