Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4471 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-06
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

BLISS
'sad and touching'

THE TIMES
'His (Torak) adventures in The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series have been thrilling from the first page, and he has become a great hero for the new generation'

THE SUNDAY TIMES
'Often dark and hallucinatory in its imagery, the book combines a crispness of style and a powerful understanding of loneliness, love, fear and friendship with a vivid landscape...gripping'

Customer Reviews

AMAZING
I'm Alison's 11 year-old daughter-Carys.

After 3 hours of reading (I'm a bookworm!), I looked up and thought "Where am I?"
The book is just fabulous, captivating. Torak is 14 summers old-and bears the mark of the soul-eaters. He is marked an outcast by the clans. He needs to prove to Fin-Kedinn and the others that he is not a soul-eater and that he was marked one against his will; proving harder every day by the Soul-Sickness. Renn also has a dark secret-a haunting secret.
Torak's fight for justice will take him on a captivating journey with his friends Wolf, Renn and his kinsman from the Seal Clan-Bale.

This fantastic storyline will transport you back into the past to Torak's time, almost 6,000 years ago-seriously.

It's nice to get away from the computer or Nintendo Wii for a bit!

(I also like the way Wolf has his way of talking-The Up, The Bright Beast-That-Bites-Hot, The Thunderer, Tall-Tailless and especially the Bright-White-Eye and her many little cubs and the many little Wets!)

All in all, AMAZING!!!!!!!

Just get better!
Outcast is amazing and scary! Once again like the last 3 it is brilliantly written. These books just keep getting better and better the more you read them! I can't wait for the next one and the one after that for that matter. Brilliant!

Really, really good!
Another brilliant read in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series. This one had me gripped from page 1, and wouldn't let me go until I'd finished it!. Michelle Paver draws you back into the ancient world, first created in 'Wolf Brother', into a hunter-gatherer society of survival, and here we find Torak (now 14) struggling not only to find his way through the forest, but also to find his way through to adulthood as well.

Torak now has some difficult paths ahead. He already knows his destiny lies in destroying the power of the spirit-walkers, the fire opal, but as he now bears the horrible brand of the spirit-walkers on his chest, can he free himself from their control? A number of events conspire against Torak in this book to make his journey a particularly tough one. However, he has the ever-faithful Wolf by his side, and his friends Renn and Bale want to help too... if he'll let them.

The other books in the series are 'Wolf Brother', 'Spirit Walker', and 'Soul Eater'.