A review by skylacine
Wolven by Di Toft

4.0

Bullet review:

+The characters are pretty decent. I liked Nat and Woody a lot, plus the development of the bully character was nice. There were a few solid side characters as well.
+I like the worldbuilding. The Wolven lore was interesting enough and has a rich history going back centuries. I also like the concept of a type of werewolf that is primarily a wolf but happens to turn human, rather than the far more common vice versa.
+The climax is very intense.
-I couldn't quite get into the villains. They were pretty one-dimensional and boring and just your standard "evil government facility that wants to perform experiments on the main creature" fare.
-Some of the characters kinda turn to the good side on a dime and while this could be a good character development, the actual handling of it in the book was rather rushed.
-It gets quite brutal with some characters just being completely slaughtered, even by our heroes, just because they were deemed not being able to be saved. Like, they didn't even really try. They just get the bullet and it's not even questioned that much. I don't mind morally gray actions for main characters normally, but it felt a bit harsh especially since this is a children's book and they didn't even really try anything to save the freed werewolves.
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