Reviews for The gray wolf throne
Horn Book
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With her mother's unexpected death, Raisa's life and throne depend on her swift return to the Fells, before the wizards crown her younger sister and the hostility between the Spirit Clans and flatlanders tear her country apart. Chima's tour-de-force world building keeps readers rapt, with cutthroat action sequences running parallel to the political ones. Unresolved issues galore point toward a crackerjack concluding volume. (c) Copyright 2012. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus
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Secrets are revealed, oaths sworn, alliances forged and hearts broken in the third volume of this epic fantasy tetralogy.The former gang leader Han Alister, recalled by the clans after a scant year of wizard training, is less interested in their political agenda than in his kidnapped friend Rebecca, resorting to a desperate magical gamble to save her life. But Rebecca is not only tough, smart and fierce; she is actually secretly Princess Raisa, heir to the queendom near political collapse and forbidden to Han by birth, duty and law. While the Seven Realms make war among themselves, every faction and class in the Fells is set against the others, and only Raisa has a chance at uniting themat the cost of abandoning all her personal hopes and dreams. Despite the lack of overt action, the eddy and flow of complex political and personal intrigues is riveting, and Chima navigates with graceful ease through multiple viewpoints and intricately realized settings united only by a subtle current of magic.Every character is both likable and flawed, written with such clear-eyed compassion that it impossible not to sympathize with all their competing goals.Indispensible for those already committed to the series; those who aren't should go back to the beginning and start.(Fantasy. 12 up)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
