How to Run with the Wolves

Howl at the Moon, Book 5

By: Eli Easton

Narrated by: Matthew Shaw

Zeus loves his job on the Mad Creek search and rescue team, and his inner Saint Bernard is finally being used to his full potential. When he sees a mysterious and wild-looking quickened - a dog shifter - at an earthquake site in Alaska, Zeus is compelled to investigate.

Zeus falls hard for the primal beauty of Timo and of Alaska itself. Both call to his deep canine soul. But the Qimmig pack’s laws are as harsh as the Alaskan winters, and Timo is out of his reach.

Timo’s pack of dog shifters left their Inuit village generations ago and have lived wild, ever since. Not trusting the “one-skinned” and with their numbers dwindling, the Qimmig are on the verge of extinction.

Timo is shocked to discover a whole group of “two-skinned” working as a rescue team, and he is particularly fascinated by Zeus, a gentle giant. He senses what Zeus feels for him, but it’s forbidden.

Can Mad Creek save this lost quickened clan? Perhaps, if they can learn how to run with the wolves...

©2019 Jane Holmes (P)2020 Jane Holmes

Wonderful

Such a great story and characters. I love this while series and really hope there will be more!

A sweet story; loved the audiobook.

Listening to the audio of a book that I've already read often increases my appreciation for the original story. Matthew Shaw's wonderful performance of How to Run with the Wolves has me increasing my rating from 4 to 5 stars. The many different voices he does are really great and I found myself enjoying the story more the second time around.

A copy of my original review follows:
I really enjoyed reading How To Run With The Wolves. It's a sweet story with one of the main characters being a bit naïve about how city dwellers live. This is the fifth story in the Howl at the Moon series but it's also the beginning of a new series that will be centered around the Qimmig of Alaska.

The Qimmig are featured prominently in this story. They are a small group of dog shifters living in Alaska and their number is diminishing every year. The females have trouble carrying their babies to term and there are also a high number of still-born babies.

Zeus is a member of the Mad Creek pack but he often feels like an outsider. When the Search & Rescue group he is part of goes to Alaska he loves it there. It's also where he meets the Qimmig – a group of dog shifters. Timo is part of the Qimmig pack and he brings Zeus to the pack Alpha so that he can mate with one of their females. This doesn't go over too well with Zeus.

There is really a lot going on in this story and the romance between Zeus and Timo has kind of a minor role until near the end of the book. We get to revisit several characters from the previous books in this series but you won't be lost if you haven't read them.

While some of the technical/medical information in the story was a bit tedious at times, I do believe it was necessary to help explain the plight of the Qimmig and eventually end up connecting them to the Mad Creek pack.

I think the story didn't grab me as much as book four did because it was necessary to explain so many things to Timo that he didn't understand about the Mad Creek pack. It took me longer than usual to feel a connection to the characters. Still, all-in-all, this was a good book and it has me looking forward to the real beginning of the new series about the Qimmig of Alaska.

A copy of this audiobook was provided to me but my review was voluntary and not influenced by the author/narrator.

***Reviewed for Xtreme-Delusions dot com*** (posting on April 15, 2020)

thoroughly enjoyable

I really enjoyed proud mischievous Timo and big hearted Zeus. There is just so much warmth and gentle humour in these books - I know I will be returning to them. Excellent narration.

Old Beginnings

Zeus has not felt like he totally belongs. Timo has been trying to stretch his wings too. An emergency leads to an encounter that changes both of their lives forever. In the process the lives of their packs are changed as well. Both men are strong and stubborn. Timo has a lot of tradition to reconcile his feelings. I hope we will get to see more of Alaskan pack. And I so want Yuki's mate to have a healthy pup. Listened to the Audible version. It was so well done. I would never had got the names right.

My favorite series

I love this series, the narrators voice, absolutely everything! I found Eli's work back in January and since then I've been looking forward to the release of the newest addition of the Howel at the moon series💖 I listened to the first 4 books again before listening to this one and it's just as good to listen to the 2nd time- the story and characters are so sweet and Eli is really good about setting up plot points /staying consistent with little details from novel to novel which brings the whole town to life! I hope there's more to come with the series, but I've also fallen in love with all of her work in general 😊💖