Name: Wolf
ISBN: 9781620062173

Chris Fenwick

Wolf is the story about a girl all alone, searching for her place in the world. What she discovers about her heritage and her true nature are both shocking and deadly. Casidhe also encounters a beautiful woman who changes her in ways she could never imagine. Casidhe's journey takes her across the country and into the magical land of the Fae.

Wolf

Ariel Himboi

I would like to state that the premise of this novel sounded exceptional. A high school girl who, through the aunt she has lived with since her parents passed, finds out she's part fae-wolf? Not to mention, the LGBT+ representation I would assume would be great for a lot of LGBT+ readers. However, I had many personal and critical issues with this novel. 

I do want to say I DNF'd this novel at 31%.

The pace of the novel in the beginning is slow as for the first four chapters we see the main character experiencing strange things about smell and hearing.. and that's about it. Every page we see a breakdown of her day and that's it! It's... a bit of a snooze fest and left me wondering when it would pick up. The dialogue is very choppy, it doesn't flow and it sounds mechanical, humanoid. The sentences don't flow either and I can't help but feel like I'm reading a textbook.

While the characters and relationships are explained well, I don't actually feel anything towards the story, and the spelling errors pull me out of it. 

Moving on, the story moving. We see the main character deal with a lot of responsibility that.. is sort of unbelievable for a seventeen year old still in high school. Working two jobs, cleaning and emptying the house, going to school. It all seems unreal. And while this may be the real case for most people, I know, it just seems to happen to the character, with no choices given until she sets out to get answers.

While the history is cool, and the info dumps about Ireland are interesting when they first appear as she travels... there isn't much happening, but somehow I'm almost half-way in? And I assume if I continued, I'd be plunged into the million family members, danger, some wolf transformations and insta-love. Now, that might work for some people.. but I am not some people.

While I feel some people may jive with this structure and story plot, I don't. The pace is messy, the dialogue is flat, the writing style is unpleasant... and I don't see this book as anything monumental. I think it will be okay to some, good to others, but I think it needs more edits and more reruns, from editors and the author. This just doesn't seem done or thought through.

I wish I could have enjoyed this but unfortunately, despite wanting to push through, I realized I needed to move onto books I could love instead, even if it meant leaving a bad review. To the author, I hope it works out well, but it just isn't done well to me.