"The Wolf Road" does a lot of trope twisting - part "True Grit" western, part post-apocalyptic quest, part "Call of the Wild", part Huck Finn with a more traumatic childhood - and it does it well - making the familiar feel new and the new feel connected to something I understand - so that, if that w...
"The Wolf Road" does a lot of trope twisting - part "True Grit" western, part post-apocalyptic quest, part "Call of the Wild", part Huck Finn with a more traumatic childhood - and it does it well - making the familiar feel new and the new feel connected to something I understand - so that, if that w...
You ever seen a bear jump off a cliff ’cause life handed him a few rough draws? No, you haven’t. The wild keeps going till it don’t have strength in its muscles and bones. The wild don’t give up; it’s forever, and so was I. I wasn’t sure whether or not I’d like this book when I’d first started readi...
This book is perfection.Okay, okay, there was one thing that didn’t sit entirely right with me, but which I don’t feel adequately skilled to comment on, and that was the concern that there were discrepancies within the slanguage used.Elka is illiterate, and she often uses weren’t instead of wasn’t, ...
The Wolf Road is about a seven year old girl named Elka who due to a "thunderhead" aka a violent storm, she ends up all on her own. She's taken in and raised by a man she calls Trapper. He teachers her how to trap, hunt and survive in the woods. When she gets older though she sees a wanted poster of...
Novel is pert-near perfect. One slight complaint I got is that some parts is a mite hard to read. Made my head spun, they done did. Cruise willin' and the creek don't rise, I might give 'er another read one day. See what alls I might of misunderstood cuz it's writ all broke-like. Writing that first ...
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life.I love a nicely told dark story and that is exactly what I got with this book. I really liked that the story is told from a very unique voice although I would imagine that not all readers will enjoy Elka's rough speech as I did. I thought that ...
#WOLFROAD AVAILABLE 7/5/16 GOOD STORY JUST NOT WHT I EXPECTED 3 STARS! @BethKLewis @CrownPublishing I wanted so many times to put this book down in the beginning. It took about 40% of the book for it to get interesting for me. Not counting the first chapter, of course. Then it started slowing d...
Young Elka was only 7 years old when she was parted from her Nana due to a violent storm and became completely lost in the woods. She was found by a man she only knew as Trapper and she came to think of him as Daddy. Trapper/Daddy would go out hunting and bring back meat that he taught Elka to skin...
Elka has always done better in the woods, on her own, than in the middle of civilization. She didn’t get on with her nana when she was left there by her parents before they went north. Nana and people just had so many rules that Elka didn’t understand that it was almost a relief to be taken in by Tr...
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