A review by gorgonine
Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Pierce

4.0

When Daine gets a call for help from her old wolf pack, she and her teacher Numair travel to Dunlath, a decent sized fief, to see what on earth is happening there that makes wolves travel across half the country to find their old packmate. Once there, they find strange happenings and suspicious craters filled with human and animal bones, presumably from the last set of investigators who tried to see what was happening, and are soon embroiled in a rebellion plot.

I remember reading this book long ago, right after wild Magic, and being disappointed that it did not have the same charm as its' predecessor. Fat forward a decade, and Wild Magic seems clumsier, and Wolf-Speaker better paced. It helps that many of the narrative and writing problems that hounded Wild Magic are not there in this book, although admittedly the book is very small in scope when compared to the last one.