After all this time, Michelle and Sir Ian have brought it home - and I am so very grateful. In any case, if you’ve gotten this far with the audiobooks, do not hesitate to pick up Wolf Bane. A small, selfish part of me would have liked to see the writing style mature as its audience has, but the thought of new young readers discovering and devouring all 9 books is too enchanting. There is no question these are the characters we knew all those years ago, and any simplicity or repetitiveness inherent to YA writing (which we may have more readily excused in youth) is camouflaged by Sir Ian’s masterful vocal colour. I haven’t read the physical books, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Sir Ian McKellen’s voice and performance is in large part responsible for this continuity of feeling. Happily, I can report that Michelle Paver has more than reignited the prehistoric bright-beast-that-bites-hot inside me it was a pure joy to return to Torak’s world.
There’s always a chance revisiting a beloved world will taint the remembered magic. It is early spring, a turbulent, perilous time of sudden storms, frozen river fractures and drifting ice.
Breathtaking world-building on an epic scale. I finished the 6th (and at the time final) audiobook in the series when I was a teenager, so as an adult I was as apprehensive as I was delighted to learn there’d be an entire sequel trilogy. Wolfbane by Michelle Paver Grand finale to the prize-winning adventure series thats changed the lives of millions of readers.
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