The Wolf Review

Hey,

So I plowed right through The Wolf Age by James Enge. This is the third book in his Morlock Ambrosious series. Although not heavily dependent on the previous books in the series (Blood of Ambrose and This Crooked Way), the books are quite good and the overall flow is nice.

In this book, Morlock heads into the northern wastes to avoid collateral damage when he next confronts his father. Unfortunately, the Strange Gods (former mortals exalted to godhood) have decided that they need him to take on the city of werewolves so that their plans to destroy the werewolves can come to fruition.

Thus Morlock is manipulated into being captured and imprisoned by the werewolves, his magical Sight curtailed by a crystal shard. So Morlock must escape his prison, remove the shard and get his revenge. He does so and in the process turns the tables on the Strange Gods.

The writing is really good, the chapters flow by easily and it's always quite engaging. Morlock's magic is more on the order of making things rather than flashy spells and what you see of his process is always interesting. Morlock happens on the werewolves during their "election cycle" so there's some fun political satire as well.

All in all a fun read and certainly the series is recommended if you've got some plane/beach reading to do this summer.

later
Tom