1. Vivian only jumps into the fight with Astrid to save her own mother. Is it fair that, by winning the fight, she has also marked herself as Gabriel's mate? Do some research into wolf ethology and write about how such a rule might benefit the pack.

2. Werewolf stories have usually been horror tales, told to scare their audience. The past few decades have seen the broadening of the motif to include funny werewolf stories, werewolf romances, and books like Blood and Chocolate which portray the werewolves as complex characters with their own culture. Read or view another example of these "new" treatments of werewolves, and compare and contrast it with the present book.

3. For many centuries, Europeans' folklore showed wolves mostly as predators, whom people should hate and fear. They brought this attitude with them to the New World. Most...