Loved itI would also recommend for an inventive wolf kind of story, When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy. I can't talk too much about what this is, but it's a dark fairy tale where there is a wolf.
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When the Wolf Comes Home (2025)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, Jess slowly comes to a horrifying understanding of the butchery that follows them—the boy can turn his every fear into reality. And when the wolf finally comes home, no one will be spared.
- ISBN:
- 9781250354341
- Length:
- 304 pages
Genres: fantasy, horror, mystery, thriller
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Loved itTalk about a crazy thriller. This has you sat and scared within like the first 30 pages. ... It is so intense.
Loved itThis book was highly emotional for me to read.