I quite enjoyed this. I am inclined to call it YA, but I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it is like the distinction between Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies - in the tragedies, everyone is dead at the end; in the comedies, everyone gets married. In that way it has a feel of the comedies - lots of pairing off of the young people, but that is by no means the whole of the story. On the other hand, it is rather long for a YA novel.
This book finishes conclusively, but there are any number of lines that need to be resolved. We, the readers, know who the wolf-reared survivor of the lost colony really is, but only the elderly king knows in the story - and the young man assigned to watch and teach her, who was sworn to secrecy by the king. The potential romance between Lady Elise and Sir Jared must be resolved. And there is the mystery of the "voices" which directed the wolves to care for the human child in the first place - we have been told of their actions, but we don't know who or what they are.
Lindskold set up plenty of story lines for a series. And I expect I will read them. This book was not as compelling as Child of a Rainless Year, but it was good fun in a much more conventional direction.
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