ztgraybeal 's review for:

The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper

4.0

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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So this book just kinda popped up on my radar and I hadn’t heard anything about it. I got the whole series and they had been sitting in my library for a while when I started really locking in. I was pleasantly surprised by what I found. The story is tragic, and frequently hard to read. The author does not flinch to depict some of the disgusting things people have lived through throughout history. I liked the ensemble case of she-wolves. The plot was sort of meandering for the first 60% of the book imo and didn’t really pick up until the section with Pliny a good ways through. Overall I liked the setting I liked the characters. My biggest complaint is that towards the end the plot spirals way out of control or really the bounds of the rest of the story. I’d recommend this book to anyone looking for a strong historical fiction offering.