I love wolves, so this was a fun read! It had some really good information, and I enjoyed the pretty close, detailed focus on the Rose Creek and Druid packs in their early days, especially wolves 8 and 21. It was really cool to see the pack dynamics change over time, and to hear about all the other research projects happening around Yellowstone as well! Just a fun read, and it DID make me cry at the end, but I cry easily when it comes to wolves. 

One aspect of this book that didn't really work for me was the integration of pop-culture references and personal anecdotes. I can see why the author did this as a way to make scientific topics more accessible and relatable to the general public, but it still felt a little clunky. In particular, there were times when the author would explain something pretty clearly for a layman in one paragraph and then spend an entire second paragraph then making comparisons to the human-world to even further explain it, even though the first paragraph got the job done just fine. At most, adding on a final sentence in that first comparison with some human comparison would be fine, but really slowing down like this felt like the author wasn't trusting the reader quite enough for topics that were still pretty accessible in the first place. There were just a lot of these little comparisons, and they didn't necessarily work for me as a reader--but I am biased by having an interest in the Yellowstone wolf introduction already!