As stated in the title the prologue kept me riveted. I wanted to know what would happen next. Then the book happened and I've only gotten a quarter through, but I'm probably going to toss it. I bought it for 25 cents at the thrift store and would re-donate it, but with the price of gas and it not being on my way to work, it's not worth it.
Frankly, my new philosophy is not to spend time reading happy-ending type books if I don't wish the characters a happy ending.
For me, the heroine's philosophy on wolves is what makes me want her to die miserable and alone. She advocates the release of wolves into less habited areas and I've heard of that before and even lived near one of those areas for awhile while visiting a relative near Yellowstone, but for the most part have always lived in a city so those wolf-advocated are unlikely to want to release wolves around me, but I would hate to live somewhere and have people from the government let loose wolves in the neighborhood. I totally agree with the farmers who want to just shoot and poison the tresspassing wolves. "Wolves, government sponsored terrorists" was an apt bumper sticker I saw when visiting Wyoming and pretty much sums up my feelings. That and if these scientists really beleived wolves should be returned to their natural habitat, why don't they release them in Central Park? Hopefully these programs will lose funding with the government having it's budget issues.
See, so any time the heroine thought about studying wolves, it took me out of the story and caused me to wish ill things to happen to her. After about a quarter of the way through, I realized I'd wasted over 2 hours of my life on this novel and gave up on it.
If you have no particular feelings about the repopulation of wolves in America, then you might be able to apprecate this novel, but my own feelings about it kept me from enjoying it and made me want the heroine to drive herself off a cliff or something.
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