"Wolf winter,'" she said, her voice small. "I wanted to ask about it. You know, what it is."
He was silent for a long time. "It's the kind of winter that will remind us we are mortal," he said. "Mortal and alone."

Wolf Winter is that type of book that you won’t forget about the moment you finish reading it. The amazing atmosphere and characters made me want to continue reading this book just to find out what would happened next.
It is a slow book and very descriptive. You will require patience and time to read it, specially during the first part of the book. It is the type of book that allows you to imagine every little aspect of the place and understand each character as you try to figure out every one of their secrets. It is not just a book for entertainment as it will make you think about what humans are really capable of when overflowed with emotions.

The story takes place during 1717 in Blackasen, Sweden, were superstitions, witchcraft and Christianity were discussed thoroughly and the authority of certain characters were questioned as a war keeps happening around our main characters, who in this story, are too focused on surviving the worst and darkest winter in the history of this tiny community in the mountains to really notice it. This is a world where everyone does what they need to survive, not spending any time to shed tears, a world where the ghosts of the past manifest themselves in order to help those who are gifted and willing to hear them.

I started reading this story thinking that it was going to be just a murder mystery book and I couldn’t have been more wrong. Even though a murder does start all the problems for our main characters, Cecilia Ekbäck made sure to include more things into this story, as she shows us that everyone has secrets and evil can be hiding anywhere, even where you least expect it.