My Review of Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

Title: Once There Were Wolves 
Author: Charlotte McConaghy 
Expected Publication: August 3, 2021
Publisher: Macmillan Audio / Flatiron Books 
Genre: Fiction/Mystery 
Pages: 272 pages 
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Review: 
Let me just start with wow! I was kind of apprehensive about this book because of all the trigger warnings such as domestic violence and in a few parts, there are some gruesome parts and animal death too. However, I think this book is amazing! It has a lot of love, healing, and mystery added to it as well! 
Inti Flynn is part of a group that is bringing the wolves back, they want to help with the climate and are basically reintroducing wolves in Scotland. However, as livestock and farming are the majority of the breadwinning there they are met with a lot of agitation and hostility towards the wolves. The farmers are ready to go to bat about not wanting the wolves around because they are concerned about their livestock. 
So while we have all that going on there are flashbacks between Inti and her sister and their past basically. There are stories about their mother, father and basically growing up with each other. While each other always had the other one to lean on a bad domestic violence situation between her sister and her sister's husband left both the sisters with scars and drastic issues. While another issue going on is that Inti has a condition or gift where she literally feels any pain or anything that she sees, so if someone gets punched she feels it as well. That in itself is an interesting part of the story! 
Well, when Inti is going home one night from her boyfriends/friends with benefits type of person she discovers a man who is abdomen is sliced open and unable to think of her wolves doing this because if the wolves were at fault then they would all be put down and her mission would have failed. So, she protects her wolves by burying the body and this starts the whole investigation of a missing man. 
Unable to accept that her wolves may be at fault she protects them with all her power and strength. But things still happen and some wolves are killed and in order to save her wolves from the blame she sets out on a mission to find out who actually killed the man and she finds out what her real priorities are. 
This book once I started it was hard to put down! I loved the flashbacks that explained soo much and I loved the ending! It was a spectacular ending! 

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