Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves (Edge Worlds, #1)
Meg Long
A lone girl determined to survive. The feral wolf she must learn to trust. Only one chance to escape their icy planet: a race across the deadly tundra. Seventeen-year-old Sena Korhosen hates the sled race, especially after it claimed both her mothers' lives five years ago. Alone on her frozen planet, she makes money any other way she can—until she double-crosses a local gangster. Desperate to escape, Sena flees with his prized fighting wolf, Iska, and takes an offer from a team of scientists. They'll pay her way off-world, on one condition--that she uses the survival skills her mothers taught her to get them to the end of the race. But the tundra is a treacherous place. When the race threatens their lives at every turn, Sena must discover whether her abilities are enough to help them survive the wild, and whether she and Iska together are strong enough to get them all out alive. As the girl and the wolf forge a tenuous bond and fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and the ruthless gang leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: Where do you turn when there is nowhere to hide? Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves is a captivating, breathless debut about survival and found family that delivers a fresh twist on classic survival stories.
Publication Year: 2022
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Actual rating: 3.5
Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves follows the story of Sena. Sena has made her way in the world alone since the death of her mothers in what amounts to the biggest sled dog race on the planet. In this race, the dogs are replaced by a wolf hybrid species and the threats from other racers, the environment, and natural predators is a constant threat. When Sena finds herself on the wrong side of the syndicate, she joins a team of scientists and the race is for pure survival.
Sena is, at first, kind of unlikable as she is made angry and aloof by her life experiences. I was initially concerned I would be following a character I really didn't care for, but then Long introduced the fighting wolf Iska. Long manages to get the reader invested in Sena's relationship with Iska and humanizes both Sena and Iska in how they grow together.
The action was nonstop and I read the entire book in one sitting. I would absolutely be interested in a follow-up book exploring Sena and Iska's future adventures, even though the book did tie up neatly. I look forward to Long's future works, even outside of this world as the action sequences and glimpses of cultural development shown really promise that Long is capable of much more.
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