The final book in the trilogy! Spoilers ahead!
Humans are slowly returning to the city, and Shep decides to lead his pack to where the people are hopefully located so they can reunite with their owners. Shep himself, however, is having second thoughts about whether or not he is ready to return to the life of a pet.
A great final installment, easily my favorite out of the trilogy. I loved the character writing here so much. Not just on Shep, but also on the other characters. Shep truly is the highlight here, though. He's a very flawed protagonist and the books knows it, but he also feels realistic. Like he's really been changed since the disaster. While he is obviously flawed and does some morally questionable things here, he never really became unlikable for me. It's clear that he's just in conflict with himself because he doesn't really know what comes next after they get back to the humans. Will he stay wild, or go back to his boy and become a pet again? All of this character writing is handled masterfully.
I also loved Callie here, and Zeus has a pretty solid semi-redemption arc. Boji also has a solid arc of her own. It's good stuff.
The plot also kept me consistently engaged and I do feel that things were structured much better here. Also, thankfully the cast is smaller this time around, so we don't lose track of our characters as much (book one and two had huge casts of dog characters to the point it became hard to tell who is who).
It does feel kinda odd that Blaze is now just completely gone from the story, since she was such a major player in book two. I was kinda hoping for a conclusion with her and Shep, but that never happened. She's just gone now. So that was a bit disappointing. But it's a minor criticism, the rest was very good.
The ending also felt satisfying to me. Overall a good conclusion to the trilogy.
Rating: 4.5/5
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