Old enemies surface and friends betray friends when Shara's son is kidnapped. Josef Ulrik must protect the boy and convince Shara to come back to the Pack as his old rival prepares for war in Book 3 of The Werewolf Saga.

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Product Description

An ancient prophecy of our kind tells us that a Son will be born to the Mother and that he will lead us in the coming war. Shara is the Mother no matter how much she may wish it otherwise. Joey, her son, is destined to be our Alpha. He must be taught the ways of the wolf so that he may lead us. If Shara will not return to us, Joey must be brought to the Pack. I will teach him of his destiny. But we must use caution, for our enemies fear the power of the prophecy. They fear the Alpha. I have gathered the Pack to protect him... there can be no culls among us.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1296166 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 372 pages

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Customer Reviews

There can be no culls...
Continuing on with the story from Shara, Ulrik picks up several years later. Shara and Joey have been taking their anti-werewolf shots on a monthly basis, preventing them from changing. Shara has been keeping the boy's destiny from him, but other's have been watching from the shadows. Two factions, looking to control the destiny of the pack, are monitoring Shara and her boy, looking for the day when they can take Joey away from her. One side wants to train the boy as a great leader while the other side wants the boys death so that everything stays the same...

Shara just blew me away and Ulrik kept me there. The characters are real, almost familiar, and the story is well pace with intense sequences of action and real moments of human interaction. Steven E. Wedel's story kept me turning the page and wanting more. This is by far my most favorite werewolf story to date, and I'm looking forward to the continuation of the saga in his next book.

Bravo for Steve Wedel
Submerse yourself once again into the world and imagination of Steve E. Wedel's werewolves. If you read anything this summer, this is the book to read! "Ulrik" continues the legacy of Shara, 'The Mother of the Pack', with a page turning action packed story. The characters come alive in this intricately woven tale of power, love and betrayal with twists and turns around every corner. The author is at his finest with the telling of this newest installment of his Werewolf Saga. I can hardly wait for the next one to be written.

An interesting werewolf tale
ISBN: 1-933274-17-4

Ulrik stands somewhere between the traditional horror werewolf and the newer urban fantasy werewolf. This follow up to Murdered by Human Wolves starts firm and fast with Shara, who some believe is the famed Mother, a female werewolf who can birth live young. Except Shara has given it all up, taking a serum to prevent her monthly changes so she can raise Joey, her werewolf son that other werewolves think proves her role, or represents an end to their familiar life style. As three, or more, werewolf factions prepare to fight, Shara must decide who to trust to save her son, not to mention herself.

First a warning, as part of a series Shara's tale is not complete in this book. Also, I, at times, found Shara to be a wishy-washy characters as her drive to protect her child becomes quite sidelined once she is reunited with him and she promptly chooses to spend all her time with other people.

The pacing is slower than most urban fantasies, giving Ulrik a more epic fantasy/horror feel. Other book elements truer to horror are the multi-person, third person point of view, the way the characters are sympathetic, but the reader is not fully immersed in the characters and a two-step-removed angle to the love story. The werewolves themselves are also closer to traditional horror werewolves than the people with fur more commonly found in urban fantasy.

However like urban fantasy the politics of the pack and personal vendettas are the driving forces of the story, creating a complex plot greatly affected by the characters' action or in action. The characters may not be immersive, but the werewolf culture and history are very important to the story.

In all Ulrik reminded me, in theme, style and characterization, very much of S.P. Somtow's Moondance, which while not my traditional favorite style of shape shifter novel is one I find myself reading over and over again with just as much enjoyment every time.