Camilla Morgan-Davis, The Song of the Night (2010) - ROMANTIC FANTASY - Zero91 - 2010 - 262 pages - price 17.00 €
The novel "The world, long ago, it was divided the world that humans can still see and in what has come in from their sight without them realizing it. Surely all the animals know this world.
Especially the wolves. "
is an ordinary day.
The sun is high in the sky. Humans wake up, those who are preparing to go to school or work and who among them many believe to be the only ones to dominate the earth. Not far away they move from other creatures with a human, but who can draw on them the soul of the wolves are werewolves, shape outline.
In a country almost unknown in Piedmont lies a community that apparently deals with the recovery of children orphaned and sometimes difficult. That's right, but the boys, as well as educators, are all male wolf.
Mail is one of them, eighteen years old, dressed in black, order shoes and books from the Internet and experiments with herbs, flowers and plants. He does not speak readily with high, unlike their lives with conflict as to its nature often wants to be a normal girl, but everything is allowed except this. Even for her, as for humans, the day that is taking seems to start common, but it is not.
The rest of the country is broken: two large wolves attacking a local man. From that moment everything will change for Mail: will the a strange mark on his chest, he will meet a mysterious boy named and will save his people from the attack of Claws Rossi, a group of werewolves hate and thirst for flesh. Maila
And here, on a trip up to the High Tatras, accompanied by Othar, a valiant warrior. Will he bring the head of the chief enemies in the underground kingdom of Ayta, the location of the border between life and death, in which wolves accompany the souls of the deceased in the afterlife?
A fantasy setting for so many burning issues of current interest such as the concerns of adolescents, the need for integration, the rules of the "flock", fed the distrust and prejudice against those who do not like.
The author
Camilla Morgan-Davis (Sanremo , 1982) at the stroke of midnight began to write sitting at the desk, locked in an apartment converted from old abandoned monastery. During the day dealing with social sciences and literature online, using his real name. The song of the night her debut in fantasy literature
My opinion
fantasy novel that tells the adventures of a young girl wolf, the choice of the Moon.
In this book I really liked the legends and stories to justify the existence of werewolves. It soon becomes clear that the author has worked extensively on the ancient traditions of shapeshifting and nothing is left unresolved. Very impressive
animalistic feelings of the girl and her relationship with nature, at times even poetic.
The story is linear without major surprises, except in the final throws a stone for a new novel.
The reading is smooth and the text captures the reader by dragging it towards the end with rare skill.
Besides all these positive aspects, however, I found a few flaws and I hope that in his next book, the author can improve. The book
begins and explains very little, the player must reach in the third part to begin to understand exactly who is the protagonist and werewolves. The constant dreams and visions of his adoptive mother are cryptic and bored because they add nothing to the story.
Ren's character does not have any psychological depth and is only worth poor.
Then there's the question that I was attacked from the start, but these wolves by wolves when they become young men to become inconspicuous and are nice and are dressed or naked? Throughout the book continue to evolve but you never understand how they can solve the thorny problem
clothing ... I really liked the fighting, the bloodiest violence that, in where rabies was only written and not perceived.
So it is not bad, but could be much more interesting if built, designed and written with more time.
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