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    Wolf's-own: Ghost

    By Carole Cummings

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    Wolf’s-own: Book One

    Untouchable. Ghost. Assassin. Mad. Fen Jacin-rei is all these and none. His mind is host to the spirits of long-dead magicians, and Fen's fate should be one of madness and ignoble death.  So how is it Fen lives, carrying out shadowy vengeance for his subjugated people and protecting the family he loves?

    Kamen Malick means to find out. When Malick and his own small band of assassins ambush Fen in an alley, Malick offers Fen a choice: Join us or die.

    Determined to decode the intrigue that surrounds Fen, Malick sets to unraveling the mysteries of Fen's past. As Fen's secrets slowly unfold, Malick finds irony a bitter thing when he discovers the one he wants is already hopelessly entangled with the one he hunts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateNov 4, 2014
    ISBN9781632163240
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    Wolf's-own: Ghost
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    Carole Cummings

    Carole lives with her husband and family in Pennsylvania, USA, where she spends her time trying to find time to write. Recipient of various amateur and professional writing awards, several of her short stories have been translated into Spanish, German, Chinese and Polish.

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    • 4/5
      This is a great story. There are a lot of twists and turns. You can't rush to judge anyone too quickly because the character you like one minute turns out to maybe be the bad guy..on to book two to hopefully find out who that actually is.
    • 2/5
      This book has all the marks of epic fantasy: world building on a grand scale, a suppressed people in need of being freed, magic, ancestors and spirits who keep 'interfering', even immortals. The language is sweeping, and events unfold at a fairly sedate pace (my personal feeling) despite the fact that quite a lot happens.

      I had trouble with the characters, who seemed more like pawns than real people. The language is not my thing, and the pace was too slow and unfocused for me to really get into the book. And the flashbacks almost drove me crazy. My fault entirely, but I will read the sequels because I am curious about the underlying concept and what will come of some of the developments.

      Recommended for people who like epic fantasy, enjoy being swept away by lyrical, almost poetic language, and those who prefer to read about battles of good versus evil where it isn't immediately obvious (at least to my analytical mind) who is on which side.
    • 4/5
      If there is one pet peeve I have when reading, it is when an author has created so many different terms and names that you NEED a glossary just to keep track of everything. I much prefer when an author builds the world around you, rather than throwing you into the deep end without a flotation device.That being said, I really enjoyed the story that Carole Cummings has written in Ghost, the first book in the Wolf’s-own series. It is a well planned and wonderfully executed fantasy novel. The world building happens from page one and is hyper-speed-paced, which is why you need the glossary, but it is also a vivid world with characters, locations, religions, and more that drew me right in!Now, fantasy is one of my all-time favorite genres to read, but Ghost has a refreshing complexity to it that I just can’t get out of my mind. Even when I wasn’t actively reading about Malick and Fen, I found myself worrying about the events happening around them and how things would turn out in the end.One of the Jin people, it was foretold that Fen would become an Untouchable (Ghost). As an Untouchable, Fen is able to hear the voices of his people’s Ancestors and can only wait for the day that those voices inevitably drive him insane.Taken from his family as a child, Fen is trained as an assassin by Asai, the man who rules his life and who is also a powerful member of the Adan people (who keep the Jin). But Asai’s plans for Fen and his people are darker than anything he could ever have imagined. When he discovers just how far Asai is willing to go, Fen rushes to rescue and hide his twin brother and younger siblings, but is unable to save his mother. Soon afterwards, Fen is ambushed by Malick and the group of mercenaries/assassins that he leads.Unable to escape, Fen is pulled into Malick’s scheming and will soon have to decide if he wants to forever be a pawn in the games of others or if he will choose his own path and embrace the power that only he can wield.An interesting part of the story is that Fen has learned that he can ignore the voices of the Ancestors by cutting himself. As someone who lives with a diagnosis of self-injury, cutting in particular (though I’ve been SI free for years now), this was something that made Fen all the more real to me. I was able to connect with his character, because I know what it’s like to want the voices to stop.Ghost pulled me right in and made me want desperately to know what would happen next and how Fen and Malick’s relationship would grow. However, be warned that this book ends in a cliffhanger and you’ll be dying to read book two. Make sure you have it on hand!
    • 5/5
      ** This review is identical to that contained within the Wolf's Own Bundle. **

      Book 1: Ghost
      Length: 0-29%
      POV: 3rd, multi POV
      Star rating: ?????

      HOLY COW! It cannot end there!

      Thank God this is a bundle, because I'd go stir crazy if I had to end the story there and wait for the next book to be released or to go buy it. I barely have the patience to write this review, before I move on to read the next part.

      Okay...

      First off, I love the POV. Multi-POV's used is a tricky thing to pull off, but it works perfectly in this story. We get to see events unfold from the POV of: Malick and Jacin, who are the two main characters; Samin, Umeia and Yori, who are all part of Malick's ?team?. Then we get Qiri's POV for the flashbacks, to show us the birth of the twins, as well as Joori's POV to show us Jacin's childhood through the eyes of someone who wants to take care of him. We also get the POV of Asai, who becomes Jacin's mentor and puppet-master, and his servant Vonshi, as well as a brief POV for Xari. Shig is another part of Malick's team, but we never get her POV in this story, perhaps because she's the biggest fruit loop out of all of them.

      The characterisation is genius. Right from the start, I loved Malick's smartass, worldly wise and devious nature, knowing that there was a big secret about him but never quite sure what it was until the big reveal. Jacin was adorable, to begin with, such a great kid and with a beautiful brotherly relationship with Joori. Their childhood flashbacks made me love them both so much. For me, Shig is the next best thing, in the list of who I loved most, because she is a total nutcase, but a deviously genius one and she just knows how to push all of Jacin's buttons.

      I loved the way that we were slowly eased into the complexity of each character, even those who were supposedly 'minor' like Yori and Umeia. Their stories all weave into each other, all having a bigger part to play in the overall picture and the supremely clever storytelling, world building and characterisation all compound together to make sure that we're told their story in the perfect way. Not only does it have balance between detail, showing and telling, but it gives us what we need to know when we need to know it and not a minute sooner. In this way, the flashbacks are perfectly placed.

      Almost from the end of Chapter 1, I knew that I'd be stuck to this story like glue. I couldn't put it down to even go get a drink or something to eat, without turning over everything I knew so far, trying to figure out who the Mage was, why Asai set off my Spider senses and wondering just how much more adorable Joori and Jacin could be. Not to mention the seriously lip-biting-good chemistry between Malick and Jacin, or Fen as he's known in Malick's POV.

      Most importantly, I loved getting to see Jacin growing up, both as an innocent kid and then again as Asai's student, learning and questioning, slowly beginning to see the light and find his own voice. His journey is just so beautiful that it's unbelievable.

      And, of course, the final revelation of who the Mage really was and who Malick really is was mind-blowingly great and everything I'd hoped for.

      Overall, I loved every word. I cried, I laughed, I snorted, I melted and I nearly fainted over the best parts. And I'll be coming back to read it again and again, in the future.

      ~

      Favourite Quote

      Okay, I had so many. Literally, I marked off nearly ten quotes, so I really had to work hard to choose my favourites.

      ?He'd never known anything could hurt so badly, so deeply, could raze the core of him and leave it scraped raw and burned to cinders. Like every step he took formed a scar between himself and Joori, wide and malformed, and ugly as the bare, scrubby earth over which he trod.?

      ?Now d'you feel wooed??
    • 3/5
      I liked the story. And when I reached the end, I was extra glad I'd already bought books 2 & 3, because really, the story wasn't finished when the book ended.
    • 4/5
      I don't know quite whether I liked this one or not. Cummings does a great job of creating characters with depth, who just get more complicated the more layers you peel off. I like that. On the other hand, there are these slow parts -- pages and pages and pages of the characters thinking and planning and plotting and wondering what the other characters are thinking -- that really slow down the flow of the work, don't do that much to move the story, and really got on my nerves after a while. Like Aisling, Book One, I was pretty absorbed in the story as I read it -- and have absolutely no desire to read the next installment. So this really wasn't quite successful for me as a reader.