I really liked 'the call of the wild' when I read it a few months ago, so ofc I had to try this out... but this wasn't nearly as good imo T_T the beginning meandered a lot with different povs and spent wayyy too long on white fang's boring childhood and even how his parents got together?? which is a funny way to phrase it ik but I was just bored T_T i think the call of the wild had a much clearer plot and message compared to this one, and while I think the idea of thematically mirroring both stories is cool, the call of the wild does have an infinitely more exciting(?), for lack of a better word, character arc for buck. 

I also thought the writing in this one wasn't as good T_T I remember being super impressed by the descriptions and character introductions especially-- in two paragraphs you'd know everything you needed to know about a specific dog or even person, and it was always so well-written, but this did a lot more showing than telling and tbh. for the first time ever I'd say that's not a good thing T_T nobody felt like they had a personality, and yes I do mean the dogs T_T