Goddamn, Angela Dawe is such a good narrator.

After the bump in the road that was Ocean Light, Wolf Rain was a nice return to form. Yes we still have the instalove, but it was tempered by the characters actually realizing they needed some good space to figure out their feelings. 

The rest under spoilers because I just ramble about random stuff at this point, spoilers included.

I liked Alexei and Memory as a couple, in the grand scheme of things. At first I was kind of put off by the idea of them being together because he saves her from a literal bunker, but I loved that Sascha pointed out that Memory needed to figure things out separate from him for a little while. 

They were both stubborn in infuriating ways, though. Alexei's trauma over the rogues in his family makes sense, but damn he needed therapy, and badly. Memory needed therapy IMMEDIATELY after leaving that bunker. I guess working with all the other empaths kind of did that? But it was apparent she needed lots of help when she kept going on about how she wasn't a real E and how she was a monster and blah blah blah. I'm glad that started being cleared up really quickly in the story and we got to move on and see her evolve and learn more about her E subdesignation, because I would not have been able to stand a whole book of her on that path. 

The emotional whiplash of finding Memory befriending Arrows - especially Yuri - as a cute thing, to having the Arrows attacked in that way immediately after??? I cried.

Memory's captor was a wildly ridiculous villain, and the big climax showdown felt silly. 

What was the point of Pax and Theodora and the twin thing?? It felt so shoved in here like Singh needed to set up this concept for future plot and a way to bring Yuri back. (Because we all knew he was going to survive, right? There's no way he wasn't.) It was intriguing at first, but it felt awkward after a while. 

So Memory can just...clean and help fix the Psy net? I kind of love that idea, and I love the idea of her doing her best even though she's just one person.

Why are the covers for this series so allergic to showing how diverse the characters are?? (I get it, but still. I will complain.) At least the silhouettes in for the main covers here are obvious that Memory is black - or at least has black hair - but some of the other countries have the whitest of white models for her and it's disappointing.

Book 4 sounds incredibly intriguing, onward!