When the Wolf Comes Home

This is the kind of audiobook that I take issue with because it sets such a high bar for audiobooks that I have trouble listening to other productions.

From the intro and the heartfelt afterward read by the author to the inflection and feeling injected into the performance by the narrators, this is one of my favorite audiobooks in a long time.

The book itself had obvious influence from multiple works, as Cassidy acknowledges, but the one that most struck me was Stephen King’s Firestarter but When the Wolf Comes Home has very modern sensibilities, with complex familial relationships and imperfect heroes - made obvious from an in-character conversation about another work: Who is the hero? I don’t want to give anything way, but Wolf either had multiple or none, but that’s okay because we were on their side anyway.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the advance copy in exchange for my honest review. Pub. date: 4/22/25

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