The Wolf The Under The Sky Series, book 1

Our Review

War has come to the land of the Northern Sky. Those in the north are wild and eschew any form of wealth or comfort. Those who live in the south are cunning and ambitious, above all they desire power.

Only one side can win.

The Wolf by Leo Carew is the first book in the Under The Northern Sky series. Leo Carew has been hailed to be the next George R R Martin or David Gemmell but they must have been reading a different book to me. Unfortunately, The Wolf was one of those books I just couldn’t bring myself to finish, I stopped reading it at 9%.

The prologue was promising and had all the elements you would expect from a book with so much hype.

“It rained as though the world was ending. In a cobbled street made dark by the clouds then covered by the moon and stars, a hooded figure struggled towards the door of a stone house, dragged back by a bitter wind.”

This was followed by a secret plot to provoke war between those from the north and those from the south.

Unfortunately, the first chapter was mind numbingly dull. It was a struggle for me to even make it to 9%.

This definitely wasn’t the book for me.

Our Final Rating...

Wed, 28th February 2018