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Wolves of the Dawn

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You MUST read this book. The characters are rich, the story is fantastic and the it moves at an incredible pace. Once you start you won't be able to put it down. This is one of Sarabande's finest (if I weren't so attached to Torka and Lonit) I would even say that this is Ms. Sarabande's finest. A+++

A terrific read! if you enjoyed louie lamour's "walking drum" (non-western)or jean
auel's "clan of the cave bears" then you'll enjoy william Sarabade's work as well. the storyline is powerful and masterfully written by a modern master of this type of genre. a truley must read novel.

Like J.R.R.Tolkien,Tad williams,or jean auel; a writer who takes his genre to a new and enjoyable platuea!!!!!!!

Thank you william sarabande for allowing me to share the in the experiences baylor and his clan encounter at the dawning of the bronze age. i found it to be a highly accurate and enjoyable account of life in as it was in western europe at that time.

I've read every book W. Sarabande has written. Please ,lets have a sequal to Wolves of Dawn, Please, Please, Thank you . My husband has been down in the den six hours so far, still reading it. hopefully he will surface soon .....

Since Mr. Allen fancies himself a critic who prefers the novels of Rosemary Sutcliffe to those of William Sarabande, I would suggest that in future he confine himself to reading fiction penned for children and/or young adults. Sarabande writes for grown-ups. "Wolves of the Dawn" is a masterpiece!

I bought this book (and, tragically, opted to bring it to Europe on a recent vacation) on the basis of the other reviews here, all of which were glowingly positive. Lesson learned. I have no idea what book these people read but the one *I* read was TERRIBLE. Never have I read a book where more of the characters were so repulsive and unlikeable. With one exception, they were all greedy or manipulative or impetuous or just downright annoying. The protagonist, Balor, was particularly loathsome--he was by far the least sympathetic protagonist of any book I've ever read. Hot headed, stubborn, vain, stupid, disrespectful, and short sighted were a few of his BETTER qualities. Why did the author choose to focus on such an unlikeable fool? 300 pages into the book and he was still just as pigheaded and quick to foolish action as he'd been in the beginning. While he DOES eventually acquire some wisdom, it was not enough to redeem him or this book. And the ending was a muddled, confused mess with no resolution--we never find out which of the three different women who were positioned as future wives of this fool he chose (not that I much cared by that point), and the fate given the only likeable character (Balor's father Fomor) was incredibly anti-climactic and undercut the precepts put forth in the entire rest of the book!

If I had one positive thing to say about this book its that it does treat the characters from this era as real humans with a complex and sophisticated culture and not as hairy savages wallowing in their own filth. But even this was ruined by the pompous and heavy handed author's note preaching such at the end of the book, and moreover Jean Auel had already broken this ground years earlier in Clan of the Cave Bear.

I have no idea if this authors' other books are this atrocious; she (the William Sarabande name is a pseudonym) certainly seems to have had a long career and my hope is that this book, which is one of her first, is not representative of the rest of her work.

I'm not the type of person who ordinarily leaves bad reviews--feel free to check my other reviews--because usually I feel that even though I didn't like a particular book, someone else might. But I felt it necessary to provide a counter-point to the unanimously positive reviews here, which led me to foolishly purchase this book. If I can keep someone else from making the same mistake I'd feel like at least it was worth my suffering. Besides, there are so many other books that handle the whole boy-becoming-a-man-in-some-prehistoric-society theme better. I'd recommend any book by Rosemary Sutcliff, particularly Warrior Scarlet, Shining Company, The Lantern Bearers, or the Shield Ring, over this trash for anyone looking for a similar story but with better characters and tighter prose.

Love this type of book. I think the author is one of the best. Feel like I have actually been there and have opened my eyes to how things might have been done at that period of time. Good Historical fiction.

This great story must go on, it was so good I just couldn't put it down. 6 stars!