Once There Were Wolves

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Charlotte McConaghy: Once There Were Wolves (2022, Penguin Random House)

English language

Published Dec. 8, 2022 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-4735-9205-6
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4 stars (10 reviews)

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Review of 'Once There Were Wolves' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Review first posted at: www.curiositykilledthebookworm.net/2022/01/once-there-were-wolves/

Once
there were wolves in Scotland, and Inti hopes that this will be the day when there will be wolves again. She and her team will release fourteen wolves into a landscape ravaged by deer and man in a hope to heal the land. But it’s not just the land that needs healing, for Inti and her twin sister Aggie have horrors in their past.

Trigger warning for rape, domestic abuse and animal deaths.

When driven by fear what are you capable of? And what will you do to protect what you love?

Charlotte McConaghy knows how to make me cry with her beautiful writing and she is fast becoming an instant-buy author. After following the Arctic Terns in Migrations, she now turns her pen towards the wolf, following a team trying to reintroduce them to Scotland. With no large predators in Scotland, …

Review of 'Once There Were Wolves' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Even during the peak of wolf mania a few years ago, I was never really into wolves—or most animals, really, until I looked a cat in the eye. Anyway, this novel focuses heavily on a fictional project of rewilding the Scottish Highlands and reintroducing wolves in order to cull the locally abundant deer population and promote the growth of trees so that the country may be forested once more. Before reading this book, I had little idea of rewilding or conservation aside from the basics, but the premise intrigued me (not to mention the well-designed cover), so when I saw it on BOTM this month, I went for it. Fastest turn around time for a BOTM pick for me—didn’t sit on my shelf too long at all!

This was a weirdly paced book. The beginning opens up with an interesting scene from the twins’ childhood, and the narrative goes back …

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