PLOT (no major spoilers): A suddenly-orphaned youth and his wolf cub are destined to save the world from a malevolent demonic bear. As his father (Fa) is dying, having been mawled by the bear, 12-year-old Torak makes him a promise: To journey into the frozen North, to the tallest mountain, home of the World Spirit, and plead for help. Only this Spirit is powerful enough to defeat such a demon. Torak must also offer sacrifices to the World Spirit, including his own heart's blood. (He wonders, "All of it??") No one has ever seen The World Spirit, nor traveled that far North and lived to tell about it. Torak is frightened and frequently tempted to break his promise, but he keeps his word (another moral of the story). Help comes from Renn, a resourceful girl with a quiver full of arrows and many insightful ideas. However, their journey is perilous. Horrible obstacles slow them down, including a disgusting old man, a Walker.

Cómo he vivido tantos años sin conocer esta saga? Me ha parecido espectacular. He llorado, he sufrido y he reído en un viaje apasionante, junto con Torak y Lobo (ala, ya está, ¡me he vuelto a enamorar de otro peludo!) por los bosques de la Finlandia de hace 6000 años. Not to mention what seems like a mistake that I couldn't overlook throughout the book (other readers of this book, this is actually a question - is it a mistake, or have I misunderstood something?): Torak isn't allowed to mention the name of the dead - his father - for five years after his death, yet later in the book, he does this several times, casually.

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Torak stopped howling. Horror washed over him. The World Spirit had not answered his plea. The bear was coming for him... Suddenly he realized that Wolf, too, had stopped howling. Look behind you, Torak. He turned to see Hord's axe swinging towards him. a b "An Interview With Michelle Paver". The New York Times Sunday Book Review. 15 July 2007 . Retrieved 18 June 2010. The Reindeer People and Wolf's Brother are really one story split into two books. A single story arc spans both books so when I finished book 1, I felt a little cheated. It's not so long so I'm not sure why it was split into 2, possibly to attract more hesitant readers. Fortunately I bought both books at the same time at a 2nd hand sale so I was able to immediately continue. As the three heroes travel the icy wastelands beyond the limits of the Forest, they come across old friends from the White Fox Clan and make the acquaintance of the Narwhal Clan, a much harder ice clan which raises its hunters in the hard, unforgiving hands of their uncles rather than their parents to prepare them for the difficult life of living on the ice. Renn is saved by a young Narwhal clan hunter named Naiginn and, when Torak and Wolf catch up to them, she reveals that Naiginn is actually her half-brother. Seshru had come to the Far North following the Great Fire which had broken apart the Soul Eaters the first time. There, she had seduced the Narwhal clan Mage and born him a child. Much as she had planned for Renn, she had turned the child into a demon-possessed tokoroth. Renn, assisted by Naiginn, is determined to find his father and discover the reasons why she has suddenly become compelled to harm her mate. Knowing Torak will never let her go, she drugs him in the night and leaves with Naiginn.

In June 2021 the band, now billed as Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros, performed four concerts in Colorado, [9] and in July they played one show in California. [10] Presumably Woolf was embarrassed by the youthful effusions of that girl; maybe she felt some shame about the lies she had found it necessary to tell. To have reached middle age and to be suddenly confronted with the record of young, effusive love is to face a dizzying question about who you are, about what relation you bear to who you once were—to summon together the many selves that exist across time. Rereading her letters to Violet, Virginia must have realized that Thoby Stephen had never had the chance for such a reappraisal.Un final no del todo feliz, que puede entristecer a algunos, pero que le da un toque un poco más profundo y original al resto de escritos de tipo juvenil. Bretschger, Shelby (June 7, 2021). "Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros Plot Livestreams of First In-Person Concerts Since Early 2020". Live for Live Music . Retrieved November 25, 2021. Realmente, el nivel de información que maneja la autora es alucinante. Se nota que investigó muchísimo antes de escribir, que narra con inmenso conocimiento y amor por las comunidades nómades de la Prehistoria. Siempre es lindo toparse con historias que tienen tanto estudio detrás. It's a coming-of-age story, wrapped up in a quest. A "fellowship of the ring" but with only 3 in the group. Parts are scary. Dark. What is so special about Torak? And can he make sense of it? Who can he make friends with, who are his allies and who or what is after him? Torak will start on an adventure that will be overwhelming, supernatural and intriguing. He has special gifts in that he can talk to wolves and he is totally joined with his cub and Wolf Brother.

Where is he?' 'Dead. He was -killed by a bear.' A hiss ran through the watchers. Some glanced fearfully over their shoulders; others touched their clan-creature skins, or made the sign of the hand to ward off evil. The old woman left her arrows and came towards them. No emotion showed in Fin-Kedinn's face. 'Who was your father?' Torak swallowed. He knew - and so must Fin-Kedinn that it is forbidden to speak a dead person's name for five summers after they die. Instead they can only be referred to by naming their parents. Fa had hardly ever talked about his family, but Torak knew their names, and where they'd come from. Fa's mother had been Seal Clan; his father had been Wolf Clan. Torak named them both. Recognition is one of the hardest expressions to conceal. Not even Fin-Kedinn could hide it completely. He knew Fa, thought Torak, aghast. But how? Fa never mentioned him, or the Raven Clan. What does this mean? , He watched Fin-Kedinn run his thumb slowly across his bottom lip. It was impossible to tell whether Torak's father had been his best friend or his deadliest enemy. At last Fin-Kedinn spoke. 'Share out the boy's things between everyone,' he told Oslak. Then take him downstream and kill him.'

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I loved the variation on the typical medieval Europe setting and western cultural sensibilities that you most-often find in fantasy.

Just as they reach the Mountain of the World Spirit, Renn and Torak are captured by Renn’s brother Hord and taken to the camp of the Raven Clan, who have been in pursuit of Torak since his escape. However, Fin-Kedinn, convinced that Torak should go to the Mountain alive, releases him. He reveals to Torak that at the time of his death, Torak’s father had been engaged in a quest to defeat the Soul Eaters, a gang of renegade mages using evil magic to take over the forest. Fin-Kedinn believes the Soul Eaters created the demonic bear to kill Torak’s father. He hopes that it is Torak’s destiny to defeat them. Teens and adults will probably wish that Torak, Renn, and Wolf had to work a bit harder to fulfill their goals. Until the end, Torak mostly manages to accidentally stumble upon what he needs rather than apply his skills, courage, or wits. This aspect of the story was disappointing, but it was so well written otherwise that I still enjoyed it. Chronicles of Ancient Darkness is a series of historical fantasy novels by the British author Michelle Paver; her first books for children. [1] The books chronicle the adventures of Torak, an adolescent boy, and his friends Renn and Wolf. The main story arc revolves around Torak and his quest to defeat the Soul Eaters, a group of power hungry mages who seek out to destroy all life in the forest. Paver has called it simply "a single story: the tale of Torak's discovery of himself and his world." [1] The book has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, French, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Japanese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew, Finnish, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Hungarian, Latvian, Danish, Indonesian, Romanian, Icelandic, Turkish, Slovenian and Faroese ( Faroe Islands).Novela que me ha parecido bastante entretenida, correcta como inicio de saga, pero que me ha resultado un pelín decepcionante dado las grandes expectativas y las buenas críticas que muchos le atribuyen. Pese a ello, insisto es una buena novela. Aunque si comparamos su estilo con el de la pluma de Rowling por supuesto sale perdiendo. Y es que Paver es una escritora competente, más no logra destacar ni envolverte en su mundo como si lo hace Rowling. Y es que pese a disfrutar de la aventura nunca llegué a sentirme inmerso o parte de ella, todo parece apreciarse desde la distancia, como una obra en la que eres espectador, más no un miembro activo de ella.