The Wolf Border

Perhaps, my ultimate opinion of this books suffers from my expectations that there would be more about wolves in this book, whereas there was just the barest hint about those awesome animals.

This book does have it's merits. The story of a woman who has long been something of a wild herself, but who opens up to her brother a boyfriend over the course of the novel in parallel with the re-release of Wolves into northern England is interesting. However, I never did end up liking Rachel. While liking a character isn't required (who can say they like

Sarah Hall has stylistic tics, which ended up distracting me and may not have been noticeable in the hands of a more capable author. First, she never uses quotation marks or any other form of punctuation to designate dialogue. Even a dash signifying the beginning of dialogue would have been welcome. I'm not sure what her intent is with the style, but it didn't work for me.