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By Steven R. McEvoy
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This story was amazing! It reads like a cross between The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling and A Wolf Story by James Byron Huggins, both of which I love and have reread many times. The story is powerful and compelling. It is the first book set in the world of Ga'Hoole that does not focus primarily on the Owl kingdoms. It was wonderful to read, and I immediately started book two after finishing book one. I could not wait until I had even written my review. I had to know what happened next.
It is the story of Faolan, a young wolf who is left to die because of a birth defect. He ends up on an ice floe in a river during the spring thaw. He is plucked from the river by a she-bear, who has just lost her cub to a cougar. The bear decides to raise him. Over time he comes to realize he is different. He grows and learns from his second milk-mother Thunderheart. She realizes she will go to the long sleep and tries to prepare Faolan. But life is not always fair and much befalls Faolan during the winter. Soon he is in search of the Wolves of the Beyond.
You cannot help but fall in love with the characters in the book. My only complaint is the covers are a little too 'Disney' for the actual content of the books. It looks like it will be the beginning of an amazing trilogy. I highly recommend them!
It is the story of Faolan, a young wolf who is left to die because of a birth defect. He ends up on an ice floe in a river during the spring thaw. He is plucked from the river by a she-bear, who has just lost her cub to a cougar. The bear decides to raise him. Over time he comes to realize he is different. He grows and learns from his second milk-mother Thunderheart. She realizes she will go to the long sleep and tries to prepare Faolan. But life is not always fair and much befalls Faolan during the winter. Soon he is in search of the Wolves of the Beyond.
You cannot help but fall in love with the characters in the book. My only complaint is the covers are a little too 'Disney' for the actual content of the books. It looks like it will be the beginning of an amazing trilogy. I highly recommend them!
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I sort of enjoyed the story within this book - partly, but felt it `flitted' from story book to too true nature too intensely and too frequently. I'm not quite sure what the author's intention was here, but if I'd read this as a child, I may well have been upset - perhaps that's too strong a word; `distracted' may be a better one, by the all too easy lull into the savagery and cruelty of the real animal kingdom too suddenly after reading passages and passages of a child's view of animals in general.
I'm never quite sure of books that flit between these two mediums; I sometimes feel it may be better to write about animals from a child's view or perspective only - especially when you have them `too' human-like, as the characters are within this book. It is easy to forget at times that one is reading about animals when they are using their paws like hands, and talking and communicating as humans do.
This is the story of a wolf pup who's abandoned because it is born with a disfigured paw. The wolf is adopted by a grizzly bear and learns the ways of both wolf and bear mixed. Up to this point, one could be forgiven for thinking one is beginning a very delightful story for children. After becoming parted from the adoptive mother; Faolan (the name the wolf is given) in his treks to be reunited stumbles upon a friendly owl who guides him back to a wolf pack.
Parts of this novel could be said to be aimed at very young children, but it ought to be pointed that much would be too coarse for such innocents when it comes to the detailed killing and deaths of other animals...
I don't think I shall be purchasing the rest of the series, but I have purchased (but not read yet) the first in the owl series based on the character of the owl within these pages.
I'm never quite sure of books that flit between these two mediums; I sometimes feel it may be better to write about animals from a child's view or perspective only - especially when you have them `too' human-like, as the characters are within this book. It is easy to forget at times that one is reading about animals when they are using their paws like hands, and talking and communicating as humans do.
This is the story of a wolf pup who's abandoned because it is born with a disfigured paw. The wolf is adopted by a grizzly bear and learns the ways of both wolf and bear mixed. Up to this point, one could be forgiven for thinking one is beginning a very delightful story for children. After becoming parted from the adoptive mother; Faolan (the name the wolf is given) in his treks to be reunited stumbles upon a friendly owl who guides him back to a wolf pack.
Parts of this novel could be said to be aimed at very young children, but it ought to be pointed that much would be too coarse for such innocents when it comes to the detailed killing and deaths of other animals...
I don't think I shall be purchasing the rest of the series, but I have purchased (but not read yet) the first in the owl series based on the character of the owl within these pages.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
The book draws you into what has happened to the young wolf falon. Would recommend it for children or adults.
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Ok, so I thought it was good, but it was so confusing! It kept jumping from character, and the wolf language just confused me.
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