335 reviews for:

Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves: a Novel

Meg Long

3.87 AVERAGE

islandbookwyrm's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

emilysurface's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

debussy's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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While this debut has an interesting premise--like Call of the Wild meets a more boring Firefly--I lost interest in the narrative. The main character made reckless choices and the plot felt incredibly repetitive in the first 20% of the novel (main character steals, gets caught, is chased, sulks, repeat). Then when the main character isn't busy being painfully bad at thieving, the book packs in so much exposition the pacing suffered. Ultimately, I wasn't interested in continuing. 

bridgetlovesbooks's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

candyfairey_reads's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

jaymiereads's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

black_cats_and_books's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

audiobookingwithleah's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Science Fiction with a Dystopian vibe
Found family
Human/Wolf-dog bonding
Dog-sled Race



I love the movie Iron Will…it features a dog sledding race, the Iditarod with the bonding of a boy and his sled dog. This book really reminded me of that movie…it captured the essence of it but with a girl instead of a boy and a wolf instead of a Siberian Husky. It also has some wonderful found-family vibes, which is where the dash of Guardians of the Galaxy fits in.

I kept seeing a lot of mediocre ratings for this but I really liked it, a lot. The planet she has created here is vivid, striking, and even slightly eerie. I was fully into the story and I’m fairly certain there is going to be another book…and I don’t have a problem with that.

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brandilovesbooks's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

saltyy_sarah's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous lighthearted tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes