Week 22 Review: The Last Soul Among Wolves

From Goodreads:

The Last Soul Among Wolves is the brilliant second installment in Melissa Caruso's Echo Archives series, a whip-smart adventure fantasy featuring cursed relics, sapphic romance, and a magical murder mystery.

All Kembral Thorne wants is to finish her maternity leave in peace. But when her best friend asks for help, she can't say no, even if it means a visit to a run-down mansion on an isolated island for a will reading. She arrives to find an unexpected reunion of her childhood friends—plus her once-rival, now-girlfriend Rika Nonesuch, there on a mysterious job. Then the will is read, and everything goes sideways.

Eight potential heirs, half of them Kem's oldest friends.

Three cursed relics.

The rules: one by one, the heirs will die.

The prize for the lone survivor: A wish. And wishes are always bad business.

To save their friends, Kem and Rika must race against the clock and descend into other realities once more. But the mansion is full of old secrets and new schemes, and soon the game becomes far more dangerous—and more personal—than they could have imagined.

My Review:
I absolutely loved reading this book! I really enjoyed the first book, and I was excited to see what this sequel would hold, and yeah, it was so fantastic! To see this world when they're not in an immediately dangerous situation that wasn't initially pretty contained, though it eventually became dangerous and contained! 

Seeing what Kem's life looks like post events of the first book was so wonderful, that's started to find a balance between personal and work. I can't imagine what it'd feel like to go back to work after having a baby, especially with the whole naming a year thing.

The developments in her and Rika's relationship were so fantastic! That they had to work together on this case was both good and bad, because that was time spent together, but it raised some issues about control and safety, which was something that they had to work on.

Finding out what was going on with these relics and how they work-and getting to know more of Kem's childhood friends, loved that! There was a ton of machinations, as the bodies piled up, of who was behind this, and all the different threads from the different plots. That ending was pretty explosive and epic, and I loved how it turned out! 

Loved reading this book and I can't wait for more! 

Author: Melissa Caruso 
Series: The Echo Archives #2 
Read: May 25th, 2025
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing and this series, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2025 Book and a WoW Book! 

Publisher: Orbit 
Expected Publication: August 19th 2025

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars