If someone was to reintroduce wolves to the forest on your doorstep, what would you do? Inti Flynn is faced with these angry landowners as she begins her new conservation projects in the Scottish wildlands and is determined to prove that wolves and humans can live in peace, if given the chance. As Inti makes friends, as well as enemies, in her new town, she is also trying to piece back together her fragile sister who has been hurt beyond recognition.

This was a fast-paced, tense read that once I started, I couldn't put down. I really enjoyed learning about Inti and her childhood, and I think her condition of mirror-touch synesthesia brought such an added element to the story, and really made the reader experience everything going on to a whole new level.

I am fascinated and terrified by wolves in equal measure, and I really enjoyed how the author opened the reader's understanding of how wolves worked, the ways they were truly wild and yet how they could often be cute, playful and loyal to one another. But there would always be an outlier, one truly wilder than the others and because of that more dangerous. I really felt like the author had given the human characters wolf counterparts (or vice versa) and even as we saw these characters grow and change, maybe so did their wolves.

Inti's relationships and pregnancy all felt very fast-tracked in the book though this is because of the book's overall fast pace. I did find it a bit skeptical that so many people didn't notice Inti's late-stage pregnancy belly and she was able to do so much in her final trimester (literally track a wolf across the mountain in the snow) and the end was almost a bit too picture perfect in a way but I also think Inti deserved some of the peace that she so longed for for her wolves.