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Michelle Paver

Author of Wolf Brother

50+ Works 8,944 Members 255 Reviews 13 Favorited

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Series

Works by Michelle Paver

Wolf Brother (2004) 2,432 copies
Spirit Walker (2005) 1,126 copies
Dark Matter (2010) 1,009 copies
Soul Eater (2006) 938 copies
Outcast (2007) 729 copies
Oath Breaker (2008) 569 copies
Wakenhyrst (2018) 510 copies
Ghost Hunter (2009) 445 copies
The Outsiders (2012) 315 copies
Thin Air (2016) — Author — 305 copies
The Burning Shadow (2013) 81 copies
The Shadow Catcher (2002) 59 copies
The Eye of the Falcon (2014) 52 copies
The Viper's Daughter (2020) 38 copies
The Serpent's Tooth (2005) 32 copies
Fever Hill (2004) 31 copies
The Crocodile Tomb (2015) 31 copies
Skin Taker (2021) 28 copies
Without Charity (2000) 26 copies
Warrior Bronze (2013) 25 copies
A Place in the Hills (2001) 25 copies
Wolfbane (2022) 20 copies
Gravens f©Ænge (2015) 2 copies
Krigarnas borg (2016) 2 copies
La hechicera (2013) 2 copies
torak1 2 copies
Wilczy brat 1 copy
Sj©Þlslukarens barn (2020) 1 copy
Pozeracz dusz (2007) 1 copy
Wyrzutek (2008) 1 copy

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Very fast paced, exciting historical fiction. Set in the bronze age with active goddess and a dolphin as an active character, this book feels quite modern and is a great read-alike for the Lightning Thief. Parents might be concerned about some fairly gruesome parts, so this and would be a good recommendation for 5th grade and up.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 6 other reviews | Jan 13, 2024 |
Dark Matter was an unexpected pleasure. I loved the setting to bits. Paver's description of the Arctic landscape was great. The main character's slow descent into constant darkness and madness was gripping. The secondary characters were slowly teased out and well written. She also writes a pretty good dog. :)

The only quibble I have with the book is the ending. It was very deus ex machina. At the moment of certain death, his rescue appears on the horizon.… (more)
 
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rabbit-stew | 61 other reviews | Dec 31, 2023 |
I've been intrigued by ancient societies and cultures for as long as I can remember breathing. Egypt holds most of my interest, but honestly I'll read anything set in BC time period as long as its interesting. GODS AND WARRIORS, the first in its series, is set during Bronze Age Greece--a first for me--and is fast paced, engrossing and utterly entertaining. I read this over the course of about two hours--that's right TWO HOURS--because I couldn't bear to put it down.

I was a little unsure at first, there was a lot of descriptive words that seemed out of place ("He was ragingly thirsty...") or unneeded being tossed around. It felt like every other word ended with "-ly" for a while. The protagonist is also much younger then I'm used to reading lately (he's 12, in fact everyone over the age of 14 is more or less not to be trusted), so I wasn't sure if I'd enjoy his viewpoint.

My fears were laid to rest about 60 pages in, when Paver began describing another character's journey across the sea. Paver seemed to hit her stride around this point and from there the story took off.

In a lot of ways this reminded me of one of my favorite books as a kid--Mara Daughter of the Nile (by Eloise Jarvis McGraw). That was also about an orphaned child, an outsider struggling to survive and having to rely on cleverness to do so. Hylas though, he's driven. He's a determined boy who lives and thrives mostly through instinct. His cleverness is mostly intuition (with a healthy smattering of paranoia) and his own ability to adapt to circumstances.

Pirra, by contrast, tries to work things out. Though she's been sheltered, she has a better idea of how things work with the 'Black Crows' then Hylas does. She knows what it is they want and how far they will go to reach that end goal. She's also more cautious, reverent of the Goddess and island they find themselves on. She understands the magic that Hylas has come in contact with.

The uneasy truce between them as they struggle to survive and maybe find a way off the island felt natural. They come from two different worlds, two different societies even, but they have a common enemy (the Black Crows) and a common goal (to stop them). Neither trusts the other, at least not on a conscious level, but they work very well together.

Hylas' friend, Telamon is lost between two worlds himself. Older then Hylas, but just as sheltered as Pirra in a way, he just can't seem to do the right thing for the right reasons. His father is disappointed in him, his uncle is disgusted by him, Hylas learns something about him that makes him scared and distrustful--nothing he does ends the way he wants it to. I felt bad for him honestly.

The ending speaks at a larger destiny awaiting all three (and Spirit, the dolphin) and the Goddess doesn't seem done with them yet. I'm interested to see where Paver takes our band of wary heroes--and what fresh adventures awaits them there.
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lexilewords | 6 other reviews | Dec 28, 2023 |
A gripping and moving story, convincingly evoking both the eerie landscape and the remote-but-present period. Well-paced and beautifully resolved.
 
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