The Last Soul Among Wolves was so fun! I adored The Last Hour Between Worlds so much and so my hype for this was so high. I wasn’t sure how it would measure up, but this one was as thrilling! Keep reading this book review of The Last Soul Among Wolves for my full thoughts.
Summary
All Kembral Thorne wants is to finish her maternity leave in peace. But when her best friend asks for help, she can’t say no, even if it means a visit to a run-down mansion on an isolated island for a will reading. She arrives to find an unexpected reunion of her childhood friends—plus her once-rival, now-girlfriend Rika Nonesuch, there on a mysterious job. Then the will is read, and everything goes sideways.
Eight potential heirs, half of them Kem’s oldest friends.
Three cursed relics.
The rules: one by one, the heirs will die.
The prize for the lone survivor: A wish. And wishes are always bad business.
To save their friends, Kem and Rika must race against the clock and descend into other realities once more. But the mansion is full of old secrets and new schemes, and soon the game becomes far more dangerous—and more personal—than they could have imagined.
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
The Last Soul Among Wolves feels a bit like a Knives Out meets school reunion story. There’s very much this sense of a ticking clock as friends start dropping like flies, but there’s this added component of friends of Kem. We get to know these side characters and they give Kem a chance to confront her past versions of herself. Who were they all before life gets rolling? Not only that, but in order to save them, she must be even more clever than ever before. Let’s get this straight, I was reading to see more Kem and Rika. And I was rewarded.
Their scenes together not only felt domestic – sometimes! – but it also deepens their feelings. It’s one thing to admit our feelings, but how do we handle being together? How do we confront the secrets from our past that have a way of coming back to haunt us? And for Kem and Rika, they always have to do this on the run, in danger, or with their lives in the balance. The Last Soul Among Wolves does a phenomenal job at expanding this world. It feels like the scope, the stakes, and the zoomed out lens of the world really come into focus. I cannot wait to see where the series goes!
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For fans of the mixture of fantasy and murder mystery, The Last Soul Among Wolves delivers. There’s also an element of the spooky as well to it! And it manages to capture this balance between humor and danger well. A subtle theme I really enjoyed was the discussion of identity and whether we can transcend a piece of our identity, a role we thought we had to be, a person we thought we had to become. Find The Last Soul Among Wolves on Goodreads, Storygraph, Amazon, Bookshop. org, Blackwells, & Libro. fm.