Chambers' writing is lush and at times poetic, but very modern in its sensibilities. The world she creates is pleasant and inviting.  A Psalm for the Wild-Built is certainly a very compassionate book, though somewhat straightforwardly didactic at times. I didn't mind this too much -- others have called this book a parable, and that feels right to me. The moral worldview being imparted felt familiar, but its familiarity doesn't much detract from its value. Chambers pulls off one or two especially heartfelt scenes that were truly lovely, especially at the book's very end.