A review by starsal
A Wolf Called Romeo by Nick Jans

3.0

I feel like I should have liked this book a lot more than I did. Clearly, lots of other people loved it. But it didn't click for me, and the problem may have been with the writing and the pacing. The story--of a wolf that frequents an Alaskan community and makes friends with some of the dogs there--is amazing. But the telling of it left me wanting more. There wasn't much meat to it, and the author got in his own way a lot of the time. I wanted a lot more showing and way less telling.

The story that is there, I feel, would have been perfect for a longer-form magazine article; preferably with Jans' amazing photos. But for a book, there wasn't enough to support the story. The story was extraordinary, just a little bit spare for the medium chosen.