The Wolf Within
Synopsis - Born with an awesome talent for magic tortured by the temptations to use it. Son of the sorcerer Ansaryon, Bron can find no peace. His soul has been won by the wolf god and the wolf’s thirst for death boils up inside him every time the magic threatens to break free. Appalled at what the future holds Bron runs away from Ansaryon and Halthris and into a world that teems with exotic peoples, new experiences and terrible danger. But he can never escape the curse of who he is and the power he holds. His one hope lies in the love of Mallaso, a woman who carries the pain of her slaughtered people. But his love for her leads him inexorably into a terrifying conflict witha man whose armies threaten the whole continent: the emperor Ba’alekkt. Supremely arrogant, supremely cruel, responsible for the slaughter of Mallaso’s people, and even nwo turning his avaricious eye towards the beauty of the Silver City.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Nonfiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Science Fiction · Fantasy · Nonfiction
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Dark tone · Steady pace
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-3303-4788-4
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL10490636M
A more thoughtful way into this book
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Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.
Begin with its place in Science Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- Which familiar part of life becomes easier to see through this imagined world?
- What rules shape the world, and who benefits from them?
- Where does wonder, fear, or possibility change a character’s choices?
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