Product Description

The epic struggle begun in THE SUM OF ALL MEN continues in BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF. Gaborn has managed to drive off Raj Ahten, but Ahten is far from defeated. Striking at far-flung cities and fortresses and killing dedicates, Ahten seeks to draw out the Earth King from his seat of power, in order to crush him. But as they weaken each other's forces in battle, the armies of an ancient and implacable enemy issue forth from the very bowels of the Earth...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18116 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 688 pages

Customer Reviews

Downward spiral
I had high hopes for this book, as the first installment had some fresh and original ideas combined with a solid story; I thought it was set to become something quite special.
Unfortunately it all just seemed to fall flat.
Farland takes his concept of 'supermen' with 'endowments' from other people quite a few steps too far. Even an imagined world, with magic systems, beliefs, mythology etc. needs boundaries, and that is distinctly lacking here. Conflicts become incredibly one-sided and, frankly, a little boring. the 'bad guy' Raj Ahten is just too invincible; at moments it just all feels a little...silly!
Also the direction Farland takes his 'hero' Gaborn (with the very interesting concept of 'Earth King' set up so well in book 1) is also, dare i say it, boring as well, with Gaborn becomming a somewhat annoying, indecisive, dithering wimp. Not good for the 'hero,' although there may be some kind of character arc going on here. Neverthelss, for the duration of this book Gaborn becomes less and less interesting throughout.
On top of this the prose becomes wordier and more self-indulgent, leaving me with the feeling that it needs a good 'edit.'
All in all very dissapointing after the great 'set-up' of book 1. I was expecting so much more.

Great book
I read this book in 5 days time. Very hard to put down.

Many fantasy writers bring nothing new to the fantasy genre. Farland comes with something completely new - In this fantasy world it is possible to give a person's endowments (sight, metabolism, brawn, wit etc...) to another.

Farland takes this new ability and builds a world around it.

In my perception it is this innovativeness (I hope that is correct english) that distinguishes the good writers from the 'not so good'.

excellent development of original idea
The first book of the series showed an author who had a lot of good new ideas and a thorough grasp of the internal logic involved.This second book continues to develop the ideas and at the same time provides a gripping and entertaining read.Thoroughly recommended.