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Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves
by Meg Long
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!
Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves is honestly such a sick book title that I was very scared the book wouldn’t live up to it. The book very much did live up to it. This felt like a cross between Call of the Wild and The Hunger Games, if those were set on a different planet with goblins hunting everyone.
Some things I liked!! This book was fast. This book was very, very fast. As fast as the wolves in the title. There was no gap in the action, which really worked well with the setting and the characters. I was really impressed with how well the world building and character development was woven in since the story was so fast paced it would’ve been easy to lose both of those. The world building was in that happy range where it was enough to make me want more books in this universe without making me overwhelmed.
A huge point in Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves’ favor was there was ABSOLUTELY NO ROMANCE THANK YOU SO MUCH MEG LONG. THANK YOU. okay I’ll stop shouting. But seriously, do you have any idea how rare it is to find an incredible YA sci-fi without any romance??? There were friendships of all sorts, but nothing romantic. Honestly 5 stars for that alone. Sena’s relationship with Iska, the wolf, was so well done, and the found family with the sled team was incredible. I loved the dynamic between Sena and the professor. There were plenty of relationships in this book, and they were all so well done that it didn’t need to fall back on romance to keep it’s head up.
My only complaint is that there isn’t more. I loved how fast paced it was, but I wish there had been more time spent on everything, because I want to know more about absolutely everything in this world. I really hope there are more books in this setting because I’m obsessed and I want a full series.
Overall I’m obsessed and pls read immediately.
TRIGGER WARNINGS death of parents, racism against indigenous peoples
Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves is honestly such a sick book title that I was very scared the book wouldn’t live up to it. The book very much did live up to it. This felt like a cross between Call of the Wild and The Hunger Games, if those were set on a different planet with goblins hunting everyone.
Some things I liked!! This book was fast. This book was very, very fast. As fast as the wolves in the title. There was no gap in the action, which really worked well with the setting and the characters. I was really impressed with how well the world building and character development was woven in since the story was so fast paced it would’ve been easy to lose both of those. The world building was in that happy range where it was enough to make me want more books in this universe without making me overwhelmed.
A huge point in Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves’ favor was there was ABSOLUTELY NO ROMANCE THANK YOU SO MUCH MEG LONG. THANK YOU. okay I’ll stop shouting. But seriously, do you have any idea how rare it is to find an incredible YA sci-fi without any romance??? There were friendships of all sorts, but nothing romantic. Honestly 5 stars for that alone. Sena’s relationship with Iska, the wolf, was so well done, and the found family with the sled team was incredible. I loved the dynamic between Sena and the professor. There were plenty of relationships in this book, and they were all so well done that it didn’t need to fall back on romance to keep it’s head up.
My only complaint is that there isn’t more. I loved how fast paced it was, but I wish there had been more time spent on everything, because I want to know more about absolutely everything in this world. I really hope there are more books in this setting because I’m obsessed and I want a full series.
Overall I’m obsessed and pls read immediately.
TRIGGER WARNINGS death of parents, racism against indigenous peoples