One-Sentence Summary:
A legendary dragon hunter and queen of the forest team up to defeat the dragon terrorizing their homes and find the hunter’s lost brother.
My Review:
I just really loved this book. The characters were all complex, I couldn’t hate one of the crew for too long because I learned more about them. My favorites were Ryś and Czarn, but I thought they were all amazing. Nothing was as it seemed. I loved the inclusion of flashbacks to each of Lukasz’s brothers being called to the Mountain and his own reluctance. My favorite part was arguably the pronunciation guide at the back of the book simply because I realized I had pronounced almost every single name wrong except for “Ren” 😂 Everyone in the story was incredible, and I was completely trapped in the book from the very beginning of the story to the end.
My one critique is how “stereotypical fantasy” it is. It bore so much resemblance to the quest for magic that basically every single fantasy book has that it annoyed me a bit. I went to compare it to another book I read earlier in the month only to realize it was because they were both so cookie cutter fantasy! I don’t think it affected my enjoyment of the book though, so it didn’t affect my rating either.
I would recommend Don’t Call the Wolf to fans of the classic fantasy quest. The book I had compared it to was Among the Beasts and Briars by Ashley Poston. They were both books that I wished would never end.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫/5
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