Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26323 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-06
• Released on: 2006-09-06
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Rowan Stanfield, CAROUSEL
'Elegantly written and imaginatively executed, Soul Eater, is darker and edgier than the first two books, stepping up the face of this excellent series and promising plenty more adventures to come.'

Amanda Craig, THE TIMES
'consistently superb... meticulously realised...'

Julia Eccleshare, THE GUARDIAN
'Soul Eater crackles with atmosphere.'

Customer Reviews

Edge of your seat.
Soul Eater! The name is intriguing itself, you don't know whats to come in this book, but that is what makes its more scary, because it just consistently surprises you which keeps you on the edge of your seat wondering whats going to happen next, these books are brilliant! And I'm sure Michelle Paver will keep on writing!

A considerable improvement.
I enjoyed Wolf Brother but hated Spirit Walker and I was weary that this entry in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series was going to be just as meandering and slow. Fortunately it's not and it's just as good as the first book.

Wolf is kidnapped by the evil Soul Eaters so Torak and Renn must chase after them into The Far North to rescue him. Their chase brings them to the Eye of the Viper, a cave deep, deep in a mountain where the Soul Eaters have made their lair and intend to sacrifice 9 hunters to unleash demon hoardes under their control upon the world.

The mythology is getting a tad out of hand though. I don't know whether these forest people simply don't understand science and physics and mistake everything for fate, miracles and magic or if it's just their ancient point of view trying to make sense of it. That complaint aside, it's a good book that you'll not want to put down until you've finished it. It's way more fast moving than Spirit Walker and brings the COAD series back on track.

Huh? How could anyone think this series should end here?
I've said it before and I'll say it again the Harry Potter similarities are all good.
There are more of those evil soul eaters out there to deal with;
much in the same way as Harry still has Horcruxes to find, poor Torak cannot rest until he has sorted out the remaining soul eaters.
The series should be six or seven books surely and I for one cannot wait to get stuck into the next instalment "OUTCAST".
But it will have to wait until after the Deathly Hallows since Outcast is apparently due out 6th Sept in paperback??? (What, no hardback first?)