Oak Peter
I find the names used for the wolf species are not very helpful to read this novel as a fantasy novel. I mean when I read Michigan and the other species names I think of the US and real life. And than to read he can evolve into a different species feels very strange, might have been better if this novel did not contain such references to real life, keep fantasy and real life separated to make the fantasy part easier to accept.
I have to agree with a previous comment. Author did not do much if any at all research on wolves aside from names of powerful species before writing this story. Roaring wolves aside (*pft*), author obviously doesn't have a clue about alpha beta omega arrangement in wild and natural packs being utter myth. The idea comes from the behavior of rag-tag captive wolves forced into same space. I think a good name for those random patchwork packs could be Frankenstein packs. There's nothing natural about them or sustainable in nature in them. Fortunately I'm able to dismiss this mistake, especially since quite quickly MC stops referring to the pack wolves by those titles. Unfortunately it might still cause people to stop reading whether they read past the initial chapters in which these titles are used. I'm not sure how viable rewriting that out of the story because it might appear somewhere else in what's already written. There's always word search in chrome but that's still over 400 chapters to go through.