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jasbeingjas 's review for:
Winter of the Wolf
by Martha Hunt Handler
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. This was fairly short and a really easy ready. I started and finished over the weekend. The book has different elements, like grief, spirituality, and mystery. While the mystery around Sam's death keeps you wanting to know what happens, and the twist at the end was unexpected, I think it's primarily a book about dealing with loss. I loved reading about not just how Bean was dealing with it, but how each member of the family was dealing with their grief and seeing a family that was falling apart start to find their way back to each other. The reference to Inuit beliefs are frequent throughout the book but this isn't because any of the characters are Inuit, but because Bean's brother Sam has been obsessed with Inuit culture since he was a little kid, it drives a lot of his environmentally conscious choices, and it's something Bean keeps going back to, to try and understand Sam's death.