Search - Wolf Tower (Claidi Journals, 1)

This book has a most excellent opening! I think I was the most impressed with the beginning, which is not to say I didn't like the rest of it too 'cos I did, but it just opens very strongly.

Things got a little meandering through the middle, but I enjoyed this and read it in a couple quick gulps -- it's a neat story. I liked seeing where Claidi's lack of worldliness tripped her up, and in which of those places I'd have been tripped up too. Good characters and a very interesting setting -- I'll be keeping a look out for the rest of this trilogy! :) I've often found myself a bit disappointed with Tanith Lee when I've tried her stuff before -- I keep wanting to like her but found her a little too....overhyped and archetype-y -- so I was even more happy this one turned out to be a find!

Nice writing, good story -- recommended!

This book is a wonderful read. It is very much like reading the diary of someone who enjoys writing in it.

Claidi does not know who her parents are and was raised as a maid, so when she is told she is a princess and is asked to save a man from an unknown fate at the hands of the House she jumps at it. Off into the unknown she runs with this man whom she can not decide if she loves or hates. Through all of their adventures however, she sticks with him and he delivers her to the Wolf Tower and a woman who is called the Wolf's Paw.

All her life, sixteen-year-old Claidi has endured hardship in the House, where she must obey a spoiled princess and observe countless empty rituals. Yet she can't imagine another existance...until a golden stranger arrives, living proof of a world beyond the House walls. To Claidi, he offers precious hope. She risks all to free the charming prisoner and accompanies him across the Waste toward his faraway home. It is a difficult yet marvelous journey, and all the while Claidi is at the side of a man she could come to love. That is, until they reach his home... and the Wolf Tower

It's been awhile since I've read these books. I do remember liking the first couple of books, but after that, they kept getting weirder and weirder. I ended up hating the series and getting rid of the books.

This is supposed to be for "young" adults and I have bypassed that by at least 2 generations! The storyline is terrific and the writing is excellent!