Reviews - The Tiger and the Wolf

The Tiger and the Wolf by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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First of all I have to say that I went into this book with no expectations, on the sense that I picked it up because, yes, I liked the cover and because the name of the author sounded Russian (heвЂ™s British actually) and I had been wanting to read something by Russian authors , but more recent I guess - oh boy, how was I wrong!
However, thankfully the book ended being a great surprise!
I was intrigued by the world the story is told the moment I started to read, because itвЂ™s indeed one of my favourite kind of worlds! Everything that mixes animals and people being animals IвЂ™m hooked up! Is it much to ask for me to also have the same powers? Ahaha
Although I have to be honest, it started of great with the introducing of the world and all the characters (than in good old way of fantasy books they all end up meeting), but it ended up becoming sloooow so slow that I eventually quit reading for a period of time, there was only running and too much running and nothing of significance actually happened, with minor and predicting details that eventually became rather important.Thankfully, I made myself keep on reading! i had stopped when we finally get to understand more of how Broken Axe really is (he might be my soft spot) and that caught my attention again!
The pace eventually picked up and, even though I wouldвЂ™ve liked to know more about the Tiger and how they work, it became interesting and I got hooked once again.

Final battle both the real one and the вЂњspiritualвЂќ one were epic and really well written!

Overall the book was really good and engaging and it has a diverse bunch of character with very different personalities, with an exceptional well written world!
IвЂ™m not more intrigued to understand how each tribe works and for example why did the wolf and the tiger became such enemies

caroleheidi's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bericheri's review against another edition

4.0

I found this a little difficult to get into at first but I persevered and I ended up really enjoying it. I read Children of Time last year by Adrian Tchaikovsky and fell in love with it from page one so I wanted to give some of his other works a go. I'm glad I did.