On Roads Paved With Intentions and the Special Kinds of Hell They Lead To - A Review of Black Wolves

Black Wolves by Kate Elliott

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Most people, as a rule, don’t want to deliberately harm others. When they wish to do so, there is usually some reason behind it: some slight or sin that one person cannot overlook, and thus they require retribution in the form of hurting someone else. In such cases, the pain caused by the deliberate act of hurting someone, physically or otherwise, can be very grievous indeed.

But more often than not, the most common source of hurts are hurts that are not deliberately caused. Whether it is a careless word spoken or actions taken under the belief that those actions will do good for someone else, there is a lot of truth to the old adage “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” - because, after all, pain is a kind of hell, and sometimes good intentions can cause a great deal of pain for a lot more people than initially thought.

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