A slow long read. Like sight it was over descriptive but not as much.
Reading through fells eyes was more interesting and i think that the jumping between alina and fell made it that bit more enjoyable. I like how the old characters are still in this one.
Overall fell was a far better read than the sight and if it wasnt so slow and descriptive i would read it again and again. ( )

I like the story and the narration is beautiful.
However I would like to give Fell five stars. I didn't like the massages of the story; all stories are lies. Fact or fiction, we should not believe what history tells us. Others may get a whole different mesages out of this book. It doesn't seem right. Honestly I need to read this again.

I have not read the first book and don't need to, there spoiles of what happens in the first one.

Maybe I'll get more out of it if I reread. ( )

While The Sight left us with twists and turns, Fell leaves us with a feeling of nothing that happened mattered. I read this book soon as it came out with The Sight having riveted me during a burn out from most animal books during a dry spell. It did not hold up. The inclusion of humans really brought things down, but so did Fell as a whole. His destiny and fate fell on its face in comparison to his sister's and it all just trickled down from that point.

If you enjoy The Sight I suggest not reading the second book and stopping with the first one's tale in your head never having to see an unfortunate mess that seems so promising and ends on what had to be one of the biggest let downs I've read in all the animal books I've bought. ( )

Fell is a beautifully written book. Clement-Davies' skillful use of language and lovely metaphors bring to life the land of Transylvania in the 15th century, its people, and the lives of the wolves. Like its predecessor The Sight, Fell is a complex book that will be challenging for some readers. However, the interesting characters, rich setting, and exciting story make this a book well worth reading.

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The Sight, by David Clement-Davies, is about a strong pack of wolves that go on an incredulous journey. The book starts off when you meet all of the members of the pack, who are Hutser, the leader, Palla, Hutser’s mate, Kipcha, Hutser’s sister, Khaz, the beta wolf, the weakest one, Bran, and Brassa, the packs story-teller. Hutser and Palla soon have a litter of cubs, but two of them die. The remaining are named Fell and Larka. Later on in the story you then find out that Larka possess a special gift known as the sight. This power lets the user look into other people’s minds, talk with every kind of animal, and to even take over someone’s body. She first encountered it on her first hunt with her family. When she first attacks a wild deer, she could feel the pain that was going through the deer’s body. She also could see through a bird’s eye that was flying overhead. Later, her whole family found that their home was being attacked by humans and had to make a break for the forest. When the forest was safe, they came out to regroup, but Palla’s evil stepsister Morgra confronted them. She had asked to be apart of their pack, but Hutser had refused and tried to shoo her off. On that note, Morgra put a curse on the pack to kill them off slowly one by one. Frightened by the threat, they turned to Brassa for help.

Brassa then told all of them the secret of Morgra. That secret was how she was accidently thought a murderer when she tried to save a wolf cub. She had accidently bitten too hard and killed the cub. Brassa also told the family of the fortuneteller Tsinga, who could help Larka with the sight. As they began to travel to Tsinga, Brassa had died and so the curse began. Khaz, Kipcha, and Bran all died through the journey. Before they had gotten to the fortuneteller and the curse had happened, the pack had met Palla’s brother Skop and their new member Kar. They soon accepted Kar into the pack and made him Larka and Fell’s new brother.

After they left the old fortuneteller, who was then killed by Morgra’s Night hunters, they searched for Tsarr and Skart, a wolf and an eagle. The pack was told by Tsinga that they would help Larka master the sight. Soon after they left, they got to a river full of ice. The family had crossed over, but Fell had disappeared throughout the ice. With that the two parents had a massive fight on the ice and Larka and Kar ran away.

Larka and Kar had gotten to a large forest when a fire began. The fire separated them and Larka went to find her mentors. She then found them, but they were with a small human baby, which in a prophecy it was said to show the animals the greatest secret of all. She spent a long time with them until she found herself ready to face Morgra, but then she found out that her parents were captured by a pack of reel wolves and were being forced to kill each other. When Larka had gotten to them, the rebel group was in war with Morgra’s night hunters and spectral beings called searchers that were conjured by Morgra. When the fighting was over, the remaining rebels decided to help Larka and face Morgra. When they reached Morgra, Larka found that her brother Fell didn’t die on the ice, but was alive. Although he thought he was a Satan like creature called Wolfbane, Larka managed to wake him from his evil deception. When Larka had faced Morgra, she first looked into the little child’s mind and gave the ultimate vision. It showed that man was an animal also and that its actions could eventually end the world. Soon after that, Morgra pounced at Larka and quarreled with her on a rickety bridge. The bridge failed and crashed to the ground leaving Morgra and Larka dead. Fell and the others managed to escape and mourned for their lost family member.

While I read this book, the only thought that came to my mind was wow. All the factors that David Clement-Davies touched about the reality of a human were fantastic. Throughout the story he wrote from another animal’s perspective of who we really are, what we actually do, and how brutal we can be. I also liked the whole religion standpoint in all of it. I say this because I was truly fascinated at the fact that he incorporated the Catholic and Christian religion into the story. For example, in the story all of the wolves believe in two wolf gods, Tor and Fenris, and the daughter of Tor, Sita. The wolves believed that Tor and Fenris created the world and all the wolves all over it, and that Sita was given to the wolves to show them love, but the wolves defiled her and killed her. She then rose again and went back to Tor and Fenris. This resembles the story of Christ and the creation story from the Catholic and Christian Bibles. This just struck me as clever work because there are endless places and twists that you could put in a story because of this, and thus ends my thoughts of this masterpiece. ( )