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Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves
Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves: A Novel | Meg Long
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Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves is a captivating debut about survival, found family, and the bond between a girl and a wolf that "delivers a fresh twist on classic survival stories and frontier myths"...
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Readergrrl
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I‘m finally getting last round of #LMPBC book back to its owner! Sorry it took so long, but I added a treat to help sweeten its delay! I enjoyed this fast paced read and would love to see the Tundar landscape! I did get annoyed with Sena‘s actions but I‘ve come to believe that this is because I‘m old as dirt and have to really think outside myself to get some adolescent characters. I‘ll give this 3.5/5⭐️Thanks for sharing!

LibrarianRyan I agree. And I still have your book in entered hiding season and have so much mandatory reading I am not very far. I can send it back now if you want me to. 4mo
Readergrrl @LibrarianRyan Keep it until you can read it! It was a great book and I think you‘d like it! I‘m a firm believer in No-Pressure-November (and every other month too) and it would be fairly hypocritical of me to be mad over a late book. 🤣🤣🤣 4mo
KateReadsYA Awww thank you! I'm glad you read it. (: 4mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! I had some mixed feelings about this one as well. What can you do - kids these days! 😂 😂 😂 4mo
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LibrarianRyan
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4 ⭐This was not a book that was originally on my fantasy sci-fi list. The cover is interesting, but it didn‘t grab my attention and say “you have to read me now”. This was picked by my book club and I was greatly surprised. I did enjoy this book and I‘m happy to have read it. In this book Sena lives on a planet that is entirely tundra. Meaning, the whole thing is frozen. However, this planet has a plethora of EXO carbon, which is an

LibrarianRyan element that everybody needs for almost everything. However, the permanent frozen condition of the planet makes the mining of this EXO carbon extremely hard. Life on this planet is hard. If the weather doesn‘t get to you then the ion storms that take out anything electronic will. The one thing this planet is known for is its great race from the main living commune out to the mining field. Apparently, anyone who can complete the race can get 5mo
LibrarianRyan permission to mind the exo carbon. In this book, we follow a young girl named Sena. She was born on this planet to a mother who is an immigrant and another mother, who is version of native. The two types of people don‘t normally get along, so both have been shunned. Both have also died in the middle of a race leaving Sena defend her self for the last five years. What Sena really wants is to get off this planet, but the only way she can do that is 5mo
LibrarianRyan find a way around her heritage, to make enough money to escape. But when your life is mainly pickpocketing, the mob bosses, casino and fight club, saving enough to live and escape, are not an option. Sena ends up in trouble with the big mob boss, and has to take a job saving his genetically pure wolf. Volvenwolves are the predominant creatures on this planet that is a combination of cloning and what we would think of as earth wolves that make the 5mo
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LibrarianRyan them superior to living in a tundra. To have a pure wolf just for fighting is an anomaly and this Wolf has been hurt and it‘s up to Sena to fix it. All in all the stories a pretty decent one. It‘s almost a reimagining of White Fang, or at least feels very much like White Fang would have felt 100 years ago. And it‘s an interesting and fast paced book. There is a sequel but the sequel takes the main character and the wolf off the planet, and 5mo
LibrarianRyan focuses on a minor character from book one. I‘m not sure if that makes the sequel more interesting or more likely not to pick up. My mind hasn‘t been made up. Overall, I liked this book as a standalone. I thought it worked well. It was an interesting take, but for someone who‘s lived on the frozen tundra I was ready for this to be over. I can remember being cold in the 50 trees in the forest because nothing can grow under that cold. 5mo
LibrarianRyan So overall I like this book but I didn‘t love it but I would still recommend it to people. 5mo
Gissy I own that one🤗 5mo
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Readergrrl
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Opened up my last book for #Round18 of #LMPBC . I have enjoyed this Sci-Fi themed round of my favorite Litsy event! Thanks for sharing such great books!!

LibrarianRyan Yeahhhh 5mo
KateReadsYA I'm so excited for you to read this. I've been having so much fun with everyone's picks. 5mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! We had some great books this round!! I just finished Winter's Orbit @LibrarianRyan and should get it in the mail to you sometime this week. Great fun reading with all of you!! @KateReadsYA @Readergrrl 5mo
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KateReadsYA
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Meg Longs debut Novel is packed full of adventure. On Tundar, the frozen planet Sena must battle nature's dangerous elements as well as the people who inhabit it if she wants to survive and escape. My favorite thing about this book was the found family! I didn't want it to end but luckily there is a second book. This one can definitely be read as a stand alone! #LMPBC #ROUND18 @suvata

KateReadsYA @TheAromaofBooks @LibrarianRyan @Readergrrl I'll be sending my pick out to @TheAromaofBooks next week. I hope yall love this one as much as I did! 9mo
LibrarianRyan Yeahhh 9mo
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! I'm excited!! I'm reading Polaris Rising right now - hoping to get it finished and in the mail to @LibrarianRyan before I head out of town on Saturday!!! 9mo
LibrarianRyan I mailed mine to @Readergrrl on Monday so she should get it today or tomorrow. 9mo
Readergrrl I‘m still finishing mine up, but I‘ll be mailing it soon! 9mo
KateReadsYA @TheAromaofBooks I can't wait to get that one in the mail!!!! 9mo
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KateReadsYA
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Cold is the night that falls, yet, fast are the wolves that race the storm. I'm starting my #lmpbc book pick today. @suvata #Round18
@LibrarianRyan @TheAromaofBooks @Readergrrl

suvata I love the cover (edited) 9mo
KateReadsYA @suvata Me too! This is one where I had to check it out for the cover. It's amazing artwork :) 9mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! I'm really looking forward to this one!! 9mo
LibrarianRyan yeahhhhhh 9mo
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KateReadsYA
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https://bit.ly/3qEa73B
#LMPBC #ROUND18
If anyone would like to join me in buddy reading I am doing A for Adventurous Science fic/Fantasy!
@suvata thanks for hosting this!

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BookNightOwl
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Sena just 17 lives in a frozen Tundra which is her planet. She is a thief, liar and a cheat. She does all this to survive. When she escapes with the prized wolf she makes the decision to take a team of scientist to end of “The Race” the one she said she would never do because it killed her mother. Sena knows she must do this because she wants to get off this planet and make a better life for

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AudiobookingWithLeah
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4½⭐
TᖇY TᕼIS Iᖴ YOᙀ ᗩᖇᙓ Iᑎ Tᕼᙓ ᙏOOᗪ ᖴOᖇ
Science Fiction with a Dystopian vibe
Found family
Human/Wolf-dog bonding
Dog-sled Race
I kept seeing a lot of mediocre ratings for this but I really liked it, a lot. The planet she has created here is vivid, striking, and even slightly eerie. I was fully into the story and I‘m fairly certain there is going to be another book…and I don‘t have a problem with that.

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Branwen
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Got a nice stack of new YA books in today at the library! 🎉🎉🎉 WHOO HOO!!! Now I just have to decide which ones, if any, I am taking home with me today before I put the rest out on display! 🤣😂💕📚 #librarylove #librariansoflitsy

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ElleMNOpe
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A Jack London feel with a strong female protagonist on a harsh & fairly violent planet. A slow starting, adventurous dystopian sci-fi with a tense narrative centered on an icy planet where an annual, deadly sled race takes place. Great character development. A lot of tense activity & some serious atmosphere. Strong social commentary. Some slight lapsing of logic, but otherwise great. I'm a fan and I'm impressed by this debut.

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Thank you #Netgalley & #WednesdayBooks for providing a copy for an honest review. 

The way Meg Long describes the environment communicates the gritty beauty of our characters' surroundings and the fierce animals that survive there, including themselves. It‘s the right amount of emotion and action; inspiring and survival.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#book #bookreview #bookworm #bookish #booklovers #bookblogger #bookcommunity #GreatReads

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TheReadingRaccoon
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I highly recommend this novel to readers of all ages who like exciting survival stories with touches of science fiction and a dystopian setting.

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SoManyBooksNotEnoughTime
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An action packed, atmospheric, dystopian, survivalist story...with wolves. This debut was everything I hoped it'd be. I could not put this book down! I like that this story was dystopian but not fantasy. I like fantasy but was glad not to have it here. I got to immerse myself in the ice cold world & its characters without having to learn a magic system. Also, no unnecessary love story to distract from the true plotline! So rare & so appreciated.

KateReadsYA This sounds awesome. 2y
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TorieStorieS
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Oh, I loved this debut YA fantasy novel! Set on a distant & icy planet, Sena longs to escape to a different planet after her mothers‘ deaths in the annual race. She vows to have nothing to do with it but can only get money by stealing…when she crosses a powerful mob boss, she‘s forced to start making connections once more. Her relationship with the wolf shines- Sena may make poor choices, but this adventure shows her grow! I hope there‘s a sequel!

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robinb
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Overall I enjoyed this YA adventure featuring Sena, a 17 yo who lives on an ice planet which boasts one big event yearly, a dangerous wolf-sled race across a frozen tundra to reach deposits of sought-after exocarbon. She is orphaned at 12 when her mothers are killed during the race. She finds herself unwillingly drawn into the race and ends up fighting for her and her teammates‘ lives. Filled with great geographical descriptions and exciting ⬇️

robinb adventures, this is a story of resilience, courage and finding one‘s family. It‘s also a great story of the bond between human and animal. It was a bit of a slow starter, and I did get frustrated with Sena at times for committing the same mistakes over and over again, but I found it a very good debut. 4/5⭐️ #coverlove 2y
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BookmarkTavern
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Refusing to participate in the race that killed her mothers, Sena is forced to steal enough money to escape her ice bound planet. Things get even more complicated when she finds herself in debt to a crime boss.

So atmospheric! I could feel the chill of the planet & Sena‘s desperation to escape. The world building was great, and Sena was a complicated and intriguing character. A bit slow to start, but really finds its pace 1/2 through. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

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vlwelser
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This book is so exciting. It's entertaining and there's never a dull moment. Sena lives on a frozen planet and she basically scrapes by as a pickpocket. When she accidentally lands inside a cage with a wolf, everything changes. She and the wolf are basically in some sort of danger from then on.

#BookSpinBingo square 15
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Pub date is 1/11/2022
#ARC #Netgalley

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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