Wolf by Wolf (Wolf by Wolf, #1)

by Ryan Graudin

[Kait ✨]

This book is SO COOL. The premise: imagine if Hitler had won the war. That’s really all I needed to dive in, but this book has a lot more going for it than just the action-packed plot.

I’ve always been fascinated by the medical experiments that were done on some concentration camp prisoners. (A couple other books on this subject that come to mind are [b:The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII|17290707|The Nazi and the Psychiatrist Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII|Jack El-Hai|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1364865552s/17290707.jpg|23912961] and [b:Gretel and the Dark|18242996|Gretel and the Dark|Eliza Granville|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1374769969s/18242996.jpg|25690265].) Basically prisoners were subjected to genetic alterations, attempts to cure homosexuality, injections of dye to change hair and eye colour, etc. This book has an element of sci-fi as Yael is able to shift her physical appearance to take on the face/body of someone else.

Yael’s journey to complete her rebel mission is a tense and heartbreaking one full of love (and love lost), jealousy, and a whole lot of backstabbing from the other riders in the race.

Of course the ending can’t be as neat as one might wish (I say that more in the sense that we root for Yael’s whole-hearted success), and it ends on a pretty big cliffhanger. I am dying to start the second book, [b:Blood for Blood|26864835|Blood for Blood (Wolf By Wolf, #2)|Ryan Graudin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1454518446s/26864835.jpg|46906263]. I have no idea where Graudin is going to go from here but I have no doubt it’s going to be fantastic.