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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
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:
Yes
Nine girls who live together in a cult, but when one of them disappears, they’re willing to do anything to find the truth. Nine girls who live together in Havenwood, a cult lead by Joseph. They live separate from the main home and have a “pack” of their own. But when Rose disappears, the remaining eight girls will begin to look closer at those around them and discover how far they are willing to go to find Rose and protect each other. This was definitely an interesting read, with so many different POVs, but an interesting mystery, it’s told in a lyrical kind of format. I think if you enjoy a mystery in this kind of format definitely give it a go.
*Thank you Little Brown Young Readers for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*
*Thank you Little Brown Young Readers for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*
fast-paced
As a novel in verse, it's a quick read, but still effective as a slow-reveal mystery set in a cult commune. The protagonists are a group of teen girls, best friends who formed their own inseparable group within the cult after a building issue forced them to live in their own separate quarters until the kids' dorm was fixed and they just never went back. The story starts when one of the girls, the outspoken Rose, goes missing; the others keep it secret, afraid that she has run away, which would mean she would never be allowed back, unless they hide her absence until she returns - which of course she will, we're BFFs. When Rose doesn't come back, the worried girls start quietly investigating to find out what happened to her.
Chapters alternate between the POVs of the many girls (were there 7 or 8 of them...?) but I didn't get a sense of a distinct voice for each - this was okay since the writing was in third-person and felt more like a near-omniscient narrator anyway. The girls are all true believers in the cult, most having lived all (or almost all) of their lives there, so it's not a tired story of rebellious kids being cruelly repressed, even though the story does reveal hidden tensions in the commune under their utopic facade, and the girls are starting to get old enough to notice problems. The final reveal and resolution were not what I expected.
Recommended for readers who enjoy a more subtle, character-driven kind of mystery without car chase-type action.
Content warnings: no swearing, no sex scenes (the commune has a strict celibacy rule), no sexual assault or molestation, though the girls do get occasional heated glances from boys; drunkenness and drugs are mentioned as outside evils, and alcohol makes rare appearances, but there are no drinking parties etc; this is a religious commune largely shut off from the 'unclean' outside world under a revered leader where things like prayer meetings are important events, but the exact nature of the religiosity is kept vague (we only get basic commune rules, no scriptural quotations or preaching); there is one LGBT romance that gets no outright homophobia but is as forbidden as straight romance under the commune's no-family-ties rules; mention of corporal punishment (caning), controlling cult behaviour like intercepting mail as part of forbidding outside contact
Chapters alternate between the POVs of the many girls (were there 7 or 8 of them...?) but I didn't get a sense of a distinct voice for each - this was okay since the writing was in third-person and felt more like a near-omniscient narrator anyway. The girls are all true believers in the cult, most having lived all (or almost all) of their lives there, so it's not a tired story of rebellious kids being cruelly repressed, even though the story does reveal hidden tensions in the commune under their utopic facade, and the girls are starting to get old enough to notice problems. The final reveal and resolution were not what I expected.
Recommended for readers who enjoy a more subtle, character-driven kind of mystery without car chase-type action.
Content warnings: no swearing, no sex scenes (the commune has a strict celibacy rule), no sexual assault or molestation, though the girls do get occasional heated glances from boys; drunkenness and drugs are mentioned as outside evils, and alcohol makes rare appearances, but there are no drinking parties etc; this is a religious commune largely shut off from the 'unclean' outside world under a revered leader where things like prayer meetings are important events, but the exact nature of the religiosity is kept vague (we only get basic commune rules, no scriptural quotations or preaching); there is one LGBT romance that gets no outright homophobia but is as forbidden as straight romance under the commune's no-family-ties rules; mention of corporal punishment (caning), controlling cult behaviour like intercepting mail as part of forbidding outside contact
Nine girls, a mysterious disappearance, and a cult-like community. Wolfpack is written in free verse, which gives it this poetic, introspective vibe. I loved the idea of the girls' strong bond, but the their voices felt a bit too similar, making it hard to tell them apart. The cult setting was weirdly interesting. It’s a quick read that stands out for its different approach to storytelling.
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
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:
Yes
Once I picked this book up, I could not put it down!
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Super obvious plot, boring, feels like they put the lesbian couple in there to get brownie points. You can tell who is going to betray them from the beginning because they don’t get a point of view. The minute they said she was going to the doctors secretly I could already tell she was pregnant. Why aren’t there werewolves like it’s called Wolfpack why aren’t. I like the idea of it being in poetry form, but the way it was executed was bad and everything blended together. I think you could’ve done the poetry like maybe as the the cult falls apart the poetry gets more
slanted, but they don’t do that and it’s the same thing and it’s hard to follow along and it’s really hard to tell POV because it’s six POVs. How am I supposed to tell that? It could have been a good book but it isn’t.
slanted, but they don’t do that and it’s the same thing and it’s hard to follow along and it’s really hard to tell POV because it’s six POVs. How am I supposed to tell that? It could have been a good book but it isn’t.