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A review by kumabear
In This Iron Ground by Marina Vivancos
5.0
5 stars
In This Iron Ground is a book by Marina Vivancos, known for her Fox Lake series. This book is about a boy who loses his parents and moves from foster home to foster home until ending up with a semi-abusive family. One night he runs in the forest and meets a wolf who turns into a woman. She brings him home explains what shifters are and sends him back home. After that, he is sort of adopted into the family of wold shifters.
Damien is the main character. In the beginning, he is a young boy living with his 7th foster care family in 4 years. This book follows him until his early twenties. He was a well thought out character with a very unique personality. I found myself feeling for him several times, almost in tears during a couple. While the second character is meant to be Hakan, the book follows Hakan's whole family, not only him. We see a lot about his siblings and his mother, who is basically the alpha and his father a "made" wolf.
This book was amazing. It gave off a Wolfsong vibe as it is a human essentially being adopted into a wolf pack while the whole wolf universe is completely different. I honestly have never heard of it being told this way and it is so unique and amazing. One of my biggest pet peeves of this book is that I have no idea how to pronounce Hakan.
I really hope there will be a second book, while the ending is satisfying, I really want to see another Damien/Hakan book. There were a few parts where I almost cried and had to put the book down for a while but I always went back to it and actually finished the book in a single day. This is a book you will want to read for sure.
*** Copy provided to Bayou Book Junkie for my reading pleasure, a review wasn't a requirement. ***
In This Iron Ground is a book by Marina Vivancos, known for her Fox Lake series. This book is about a boy who loses his parents and moves from foster home to foster home until ending up with a semi-abusive family. One night he runs in the forest and meets a wolf who turns into a woman. She brings him home explains what shifters are and sends him back home. After that, he is sort of adopted into the family of wold shifters.
Damien is the main character. In the beginning, he is a young boy living with his 7th foster care family in 4 years. This book follows him until his early twenties. He was a well thought out character with a very unique personality. I found myself feeling for him several times, almost in tears during a couple. While the second character is meant to be Hakan, the book follows Hakan's whole family, not only him. We see a lot about his siblings and his mother, who is basically the alpha and his father a "made" wolf.
This book was amazing. It gave off a Wolfsong vibe as it is a human essentially being adopted into a wolf pack while the whole wolf universe is completely different. I honestly have never heard of it being told this way and it is so unique and amazing. One of my biggest pet peeves of this book is that I have no idea how to pronounce Hakan.
I really hope there will be a second book, while the ending is satisfying, I really want to see another Damien/Hakan book. There were a few parts where I almost cried and had to put the book down for a while but I always went back to it and actually finished the book in a single day. This is a book you will want to read for sure.
*** Copy provided to Bayou Book Junkie for my reading pleasure, a review wasn't a requirement. ***