Le loup is the story of a lamb who is caught by or, more accurately, captures a series of wolves. It is a study of types of male homosexual love, a succession of character sketches rather than a developed plot or philosophical investigation; it grows by accretion rather than extension.

While Blais continues to write about the less ordinary passions, Le loup eschews the violence of her earlier books and is more suave and nuanced. She has become more perceptive of psychological differences as she has grown from child prodigy to professional writer; however, considerably more development will still be needed before she can be adjudged a novelist of any literary significance. (p. 80)

D. Nyren, in Books Abroad (copyright 1975 by the University of Oklahoma Press), Vol. 49, No. 1, Winter, 1975.