Yeah, too much story/too few pages seems spot-on to me--and like genusshrike says above, like the storytelling has therefore been reduced to a plot summary, telling instead of showing, rushing to get it all in.

I guess Rainsong, Woodlock, and Wing all died after One-Eye did, when every other Wolfrider-blooded elf went into wrapstuff in order to stay alive into the future where Skywise and Leetah were taken.

But then, they were sadly never as foregrounded as someone like One-Eye, so when they aged and died, it was super in the background.

Other than that, I can't remember any other Wolfrider deaths, even from accident or animals or battle or other dangers... It really feels like, how to put it--healer inflation? Life for the Wolfriders seemed so precarious when they only had Rain the Healer, all it took was one Madcoil and they were in a world of hurt. But the instant Leetah came along, no Wolfrider died of anything at all, not counting the four listed above. Go-Backs or Sun Villagers can die in battle or protecting others or what-have-you, but the Wolfriders, no way.

Not that I want them killed, but...it does seem the sense of any realistic stakes or hard life was kind of bled away.