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This feels stupid. I understand what it is accomplishing for the plot, but EVERYones makes a HUGE fuss about Meg and Meg's safety anytime she so much as sneezes or has some facial expression they don't understand but suddenly it's possible for her to get kidnapped. Right under everyone's nose. The book didn't need this part and I don't like the way it's handled.

Officers, we have shots fire and a right truth bomb delivered by a human woman to a wolf. Who took a step back. Damn. It took the author a long time to set up scenes like this but this might be my favourite book of the series yet! The other books aren't bad but this now feels like really good writing.

What in the ever-loving fudge is this? Simon doesn't tell Meg some humans are going to steal food at night and he's going to eat them. Obviously. Now Meg is questioning if she's done something wrong, if Simon is angry, if their relationship is broken beyond repair, if they broke up (not that they are officially dating) - what nonsense overreaction is that? How can she be in a relationship with issues like this???

LOL. How far I have come... From complaining about TI eating humans to laughing at "special meat" jokes. Helps that the victim is Cyrus. Feels right somehow.

This is something I just don't understand - everyone knows Cyrus is "bad" and they are only letting him stay around for Important TI Reasons but people still, in my opinion, pander to him. Giving him food from the potluck just because he stomped his foot??? Monty KNOWS his brother and he still doesn't actually... he reacts, he makes compromises... he tries to save him. WHY??

The wolf kukies!!! The turkey hunt!!! These are the scenes I've been missing!! So funny! So much fun!!

This is such an under-used enjoyable trope for this whole series - seeing the Terra Indigenes interact with humans in... a cute way. Humans reading Wolf Team books and laughing at wolves playing, Simon respecting Berk as a worthy "alpha"... Sad to see it take some focus only in the last book of the series.

I don't wanna jinx it but... I am liking Simon in this part. He is almost not annoying and he is doing some good things for the plot and the characters. A positive force in the book.

I really dislike humans/characters like Cyrus but they also show the unfortunate side of TI's nature - they may be described as predators, I'll eat you if I want to kind of dangerous, but then trouble starts and they are all just... trying to hold on to their tempers. Their danger/violence/actions are not the result of fierness or even choice way too often.

Wau, tell me we're in America without telling me this would be America. Ethnically homogenous neighbourhoods, like, say, a Chinatown, making up the whole of Lakeside? Where else could that be?