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Rating: 
Summary: A solid effort
Review: This book starts out describing a wolf pair and their life, jumps to a russian "holy fool", and only gets more complex from there. Three storylines that are only connected vaguely by the wolves. While each section is a good solid effort it lacks a solid cohesion. The tentative connection of the wolves hardly requires it be written as a novel. Instead this book may have been best written as smaller novellas. At one point it even goes into the telling of Jesus prior to his crucifixion as a comparison to the Russian "holy fool" who later suffers an equally gruelling fate. This seems both boring and excessive. It's been done before and better. In short the writing style is compelling but not enough to hold the novel together for 310 pages.
Rating:
Summary: A solid effort
Review: This book starts out describing a wolf pair and their life, jumps to a russian "holy fool", and only gets more complex from there. Three storylines that are only connected vaguely by the wolves. While each section is a good solid effort it lacks a solid cohesion. The tentative connection of the wolves hardly requires it be written as a novel. Instead this book may have been best written as smaller novellas. At one point it even goes into the telling of Jesus prior to his crucifixion as a comparison to the Russian "holy fool" who later suffers an equally gruelling fate. This seems both boring and excessive. It's been done before and better. In short the writing style is compelling but not enough to hold the novel together for 310 pages.
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