This was super not my cup of tea. There was just a lot of stuff that didn't feel well thought through. Why do the werewolves need a clinic if they're immortal? Is it just to keep them secret from the masses? If so, that seems super sketchy. Shouldn't people be aware of the dangerous wild animals wandering around the woods? Isn't lack of appropriate caution the reason our protagonist was bitten in the first place? How common are werewolf attacks in this world? The text seems to imply that the main character has been bitten more than just the two times we know about. Is that common? Am I supposed to feel sympathy for Thunderhead when she shows up in her human form? Build a cage in your basement or something!! Every time she goes out in wolf form, she's endangering lives. If nothing else, she has a reputation for attacking other werewolves, and her bite seems to negate the magical healing abilities of other shifters, or they wouldn't need a vet to sew them back up afterward.
Also, on a metaphorical level, the message seemed muddled and problematic. I get the intention. However, she was physically assaulted by a dangerous person who can't control their violent impulses as a child. Then, she grows up to seek out and befriend the same kind of person who traumatized her in the first place. It felt a lot like the same cycle of abuse that leads survivors to end up in relationships with people who treat them no better than their original abusers.