Wolf Captured

Wolf Captured
Wolf #4
Jane Lindskold
Fantasy
2 Stars
520 pages, paperbook

Firekeeper and Derian are captured and taken South, to a land where people know about Royal Beasts and use them for future telling. Firekeeper learns about her origins and how she came to be with the wolves.

Lindskold takes this book down a path I was not very comfortable with. Firekeeper wants to be a wolf and be with Blindseer. Practically bestiality. I hope the rest of the books in the series turn from this path, or I’m done with them.

THE DRAGON OF DESPAIR

THE DRAGON OF DESPAIR
Wolf #3
Jane Lindskold
Fantasy
2 Stars
729 pages

Melina Shield has married the Healed One of New Kelvin and is working on setting free an ancient dragon to consolidate her power. FireKeeper and Co must stop her. All the while, settlers are starting to move beyond the Iron Mountains, threatening the Royal Beasts. King Tedric proclaims them off limits, but it seems like war between humans and royal beasts is in the near future.

Lindskold uses the growth of humanity as a reason why humans are starting to push beyond the Iron Mountains, but with all the wars and the sub-standard standard of living among the majority of peoples, it doesn’t really seem reasonable that there are that many people yet.

Wolf’s Head, Wolf’s Heart

Wolf’s Head, Wolf’s Heart
Wolf #2
Jane Lindskold
fantasy
3 stars
602 pages

Melina Shield maneuvers things so that the artifacts Vallora took are sent for study to New Kelvin, with Melina as the understudy. The group must stop her. Lots of politic’ing and kind of sad. Firekeeper finds out a bit of history from the Royals about Royal/Human interaction. 

In the end Firekeeper has to give up what she wants and tries to please both humans and Royals. She’s the one stuck in the middle.