Wolves Chronicles (Paperback): The Stolen Lake (Paperback)

from Ma_Washigeri

One of my favourites. A proper picaresque tale with Dido, the hero, living on her wits as she travels through through fictitious South American countries, watching fellow travellers being hunted to death, torn apart by aurocs, or eaten to death in seconds by piranhas. The book ends surprisingly s...

from elkiedee

This is the 4th in what is now called The Wolves Chronicles, in the order that the stories take place. Dido Twite is finally on her way home to England from Nantucket, but has a couple more adventures ahead of her on the way home. The captain of the ship taking Dido home has been asked to help th...

from demoonme

I love it although I wasn't happy with the main charcter at first I warmed up to her and her friends

from ashleytylerjohn

So inventive! What an imagination she has ... it was a pleasure to read an installment set in a very different country than one is used to encountering in fantasy fiction (a South America colonized by the British very, very, early on, rather than the Spanish or Portuguese later). Compared to the ...

from Eurekas

I am a great fan of Joan Aiken, particularly the books which feature Dido Twite. As for this one, the word preposterous comes to mind. All of the stories of hers I have read have many elements which suspend reality....This one does more than suspend reality; it shoots it off into space. Nothing i...