Wolf Queen

BONKERS INSANE BOOKS !! my opinion will never change it's like alice in wonderland as everything goes deeper it gets crazier and more inexplicable. softest magic system in the world. so many questions, no answers. Claidi feels a lot more MG than YA. actually what in the absolute WORLD was ANY of this this spiraled into true chaos really fast LMAO absolutely dizzying and i really don't know how much of that i truly retained things just kept COMING. v convoluted (yet simultaneously not i think it was just the family trees) themes of family and destiny and fate and self-determination/free will/choice and what have you. bewildering.
proud to say i vaguely called the family tree mess though
unfortunately i'd already spoiled myself for the show more Argul robot twist but i did not see the Jelly one coming because i wasn't thinking very hard about it when i should've been. gosh WHAT even. glad bro believed Claidi this whole time and glad it all worked out but... yo... the rings?? straightup defying gravity for fun?? just responding to Claidi's thoughts??? protecting her from Twilight Star (WHAT a name) and the others... what is this wild scifi fantasy mix. i shouldn't be surprised since it's so 90s but. What. Again.

(i personally think the journal voice is a little rough only because when it's a journal i start to question how the writer remembers everything well enough to write down/what's fabricated though i don't think that's meant to be an issue here it's just a story told by Claidi and it's as true as true can be in this insanity. however i think she reads younger than she is.)

i have a calc midterm tomorrow that i am unfortunately not as worried as i should be about. uh oh! maybe ill go read the fourth book of this now instead of studying hehee show less

The third of four books and if I didn't own book 4 I don't think I'd be reading these. It's an interesting idea but it isn't really fleshed out well. Told through Claidi's journals this is a story of betrayal and finding out who you really are and what's important to you. Claidi returns to the Hulta people to find that rumours and lies have been spread about her and her beloved Argul is missing. She now has to go to see the woman at the center of this and find out what is going on. And to see what the plans are for her.

This series is proving to be a bit of a hard slog for me. I will finish it but it may take me a while, I have no real incentive to read it, a bit of a meh about it all (and the reviews on Amazon.com aren't helping that show more feeling). I sometimes think that Tanith Lee sometimes gets a great idea that then never really goes anywhere. show less

Cladi has escaped the Rise and is trying to find her fiance. When she finally tracks him down, he is not what he seemed and has led her to a dangerous set of possible family members. Lots of escapes, mistaken identities, etc. which were fun, but this is the book where Cladi’s silliness really grated on me the most.

Just as good as the first two. At times I thought I knew what would happen. At times I was right, but there are a few good twists that I wasn't expecting.

To be completely honest....I didn't like these books. The author created a semi-interesting fantasy world (though nothing incredible), but only a very mediocre and vague plot. I continued to read hoping they would get better, but even the end was very anticlimatic (not that there was much buildup).
The books were written in journal form, not that is bad, but there was more random thoughts, about the environment, of the main character than any kind of plot advancement.

I'm ashamed to admit I skimmed through the last two and a half books, just to get through them. Wouldn't recommend anyone else even putting in that much effort.

If you like the series, then definitely read. But this book is really only worth reading if you're going to continue on with the story, or if you're really invested in Claidi and Argul.

In the third book of the Wolf series, Claidi get captured and a followong chain of events causes her to question who she really is and who is her fiance, really?