Review: If you liked "The Dragonriders of Pern" than this one is for you
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2012
I greatly enjoyed reading Candy Rae's "Wolves and War", although not as much I admit as I enjoyed reading "The Dragonriders of Pern" by Anne McCaffrey and "The Valdemar" series by Mercedes Lackey, both of which fall into the talking animal who love me unconditionally class of fantasy writing along with this book. However that might be due to the fact that I read those series between the ages of 13 and 16, when I think we as humans are most in need of that feeling of unconditional love.I don't feel it necessary to explain to you in detail what this story is about, plenty of other reviews here will do that for me, it should be sufficient to say it's about humans bonding telepathically with giant alien wolves to defend their homes from invaders. What you want to know is should you get it? I would say yes.I've seen some reviewers here say they couldn't suspend their disbelief at all of the necessary contrivances required to bring the humans in this series in contact with the two species of alien wolf-like creatures that inhabit their new home and my response to them is it's no more unbelievable than the circumstances that lead to similar circumstances in both "Dragonriders" and "Valdemar". It is fantasy after all and such books tend to be fantastical by their very nature.This book has an interesting and varied cast of characters who in good "Roshomon" like fashion respond same circumstances in different fashion and we as audience come to care for most of them.If this book fails, it is in its villains who seem one dimensional and quest for power for seemingly no other reason than to do so. However even there this book leaves you a light at the end of the tunnel with secondary cast of heavies which seem much more human to me with varied motivations and desires who might be well used in the continuing volumes (I haven't read that far yet).Other than that the only thing I might recommend is a slight formatting change relocated the character list to the front of the book instead of the back because at times I was slightly confused as to who a particular character was when they were referenced and I don't routinely check the back of Kindle books to see if there is a character list.