Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart by Jane Lindskold

[meganbmoore]

Set just long enough after Through Wolf’s Eyes for everyone to lick their wounds and show off their new scars, Wolf’s Head, Wolf’s Heart kicks off with the wedding of Sapphire and Shad. Naturally, things cannot go easily, and there’s an assassination attempt on the newly wedded royal couple. At the same time, the newly crowned King Allister learns

Comments

[smillaraaq]

In short, not as good as the first, but still a good read.

Hrm, yes, I can see why fairest1 was saying I might want to skip right to the third book; I thought the first one was only good-not-great overall, and was sufficiently bored with all the humans that...yeah. Maybe I'll try to BookMooch a copy just to skim through quickly once for the wolfy bits, and pass it back along.

(But...Wendee? WENDEE? The naming never felt totally consistent and convincing to me last time around, but I dont' remember anything glaring quite that badly. Is it at least supposed to be a diminutive of something in the Gwendolyn sort of vein? Leaving aside the issue of twentieth-century double-ee spelling, "Wendy" was pretty much a vanishingly rare name until J.M. Barrie popularized it in the 1900s...)

[meganbmoore]

I suspect it's an assumed name, actually. She has apparently had a varied and experienced life, but is all settled and domestic now.

[fairest1]

Actually, it's book four you want to skip to. Three is more of a continuation of the stuff started in book two, and book four starts off something completely new.

[meganbmoore]

I thought it was book 4 that you said before, but i wasn't sure.

[fairest1]

Yeah. Four is excellent if you get bored with too much focus on silly humans; there's a lot more focus on the wolves, and -- awesomeness is all I'll say.

[meganbmoore]

I'm good with the humans until it's all about Derian. Don't dislike him, just kinda bored by him.

[fairest1]

Derian isn't too bad, if he's just hanging out in the background. I still like the wolves better.

[smillaraaq]

Yeah, I didn't *hate* the humans, but they just bored me: I don't have a lot of appetite for Generic Medieval European fantasy settings at this point, even if they're done well I've just seen so much of it that I'm burned out on the whole thing. The wolfy stuff was what made it something other than generic, and that's what kept me turning pages.