Review: A promising start...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2014
3.5 stars out of 5.I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The premise of ‘The Wolf’s Cry’ is an interesting one. Semei live below the surface of the Earth, in a world that is like our own, but also a bit different. This world is powered by five crystals which provide daylight and…well, life, I suppose (there is no sun or stars). Pretty neat, right? Kammy accidentally stumbles into their world and after a bit of trouble ends up with a group of three friends, Jad, Eric and Tayah.Natalie Crown has created a really interesting world beneath the surface of our own. I loved the idea of how it was powered and that they had their own cultures and myths. It was really neat to visit the two cities that we did, and see their differences and similarities on the page. I don’t think I’d like living in a world where there was no stars (just imagine, the horror!) but the simplicity of it all made me think it’d be neat to live without all our technology sometimes. Who needs Google when you have a giant library!Once things got into the main action of the plot (aka: when things get dangerous) the pace really picked up and I much preferred the second half of the book to the first - I had some trouble engaging with the characters (I enjoyed the plot, but they baffled me a bit) but once it got more than half way they seemed much more defined.I think the next book will be really interesting to see how things develop with Jad and Kammy’s stories. Eric and Tayah are also both solid characters, and I’m looking forward to reading more about them as well.