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The Claidi Collection Books IIII Wolf Tower; Wolf Star; Wolf Queen Tanith Lee 9780525472056 Books

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The Claidi Collection Books IIII Wolf Tower; Wolf Star; Wolf Queen Tanith Lee 9780525472056 Books Reviews

My experiences reading Tanith Lee have been rather hit-or-miss, and I'm afraid I would have to classify THE CLAIDI JOURNALS as a miss. It is very hard to care about what happens to the diffident Claidi on her journey through the strange world of hers. I wouldn't mind a moody teenager as a narrator if she was a more descriptive moody teenager, who let us into her mind and heart.
I love these books! I definately think these are books everyone will enjoy! They are just a great story. With the perfect mix of fantasy, love, and adventure. It is one surprise after another. One of the 1st books i have ever read where absolutly everything conects! Anyone with an imagination will love these books.
While I enjoyed the story, I have to admit that what I most admire about these books is the characterization. Without so much as a ripple in continuity, Lee brings Claidi along a very real and human journey such that, as Claidi notices herself, she seems to have become a different person from when she started writing. Claidi is also one of the best and clearest examples I know of a flawed heroine; while she often makes terrible mistakes, she never fails to learn and grow from them, and the reader understands and sympathizes with her at every step along the way. Venn is also extremely well-developed and was a joy to read, though Argul's character lags slightly.

This collection is both an excellent deal and a great way to compare clues and details between books, so if you're looking into buying them, look here first.

The one thing that was less than well-thought out about the story was the level of technology, especially in the third book. I bought the moving rooms of the Rise mainly because they were completely fascinating and uniquely dangerous, even if thinking about how that kind of mechanism could work gave me a headache. The rings, however, stray towards a traditional fantasy where everything is far too easy once you have the "magic talisman." If their powers had been more limited, at least to just outside the realm of mechanical believability, the story would have been smoother and provided more opportunities for character growth.
I love Tanith Lee's works, loved reading this wonderful series, and loved sharing it with my teens who are also fans! This deserves to be read and available widely. Why isn't a edition available? Seems like a really stunning omission.
Just over six years ago I walked into this little bookstore called Books of Wonder for the first time in my life. And on the front end cap, directly facing the revolving door, on the middle shelf, was a thick book with a purple cover and a gold spine entitled THE CLAIDI JOURNALS. I had heard of Tanith Lee before, but never read any of her books, and I had her sorted in my mind as a dark fantasy/horror writer. As I picked up the hefty volume and examined it, it appeared it was actually an omnibus collection of three novels Wolf Tower,Wolf Star, and Wolf Queen. A fourth and final installment--Wolf Wing--was subsequently published. I usually prefer to start with the original volumes themselves and then invest in an omnibus edition if I like them and if it's a particularly attractive edition. In this case, however, something about the collection grabbed me. DH and I were stopping off in New York to visit my sister-in-law and her family on our way to Italy to visit my parents, and I was in need of some good trip reading to take with me. Then I made the mistake of opening the book and reading the first few lines.

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Yes.

I stole this. This book.

I don't know why. It looked . . . nice, I suppose, and nothing has been nice for years.

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That right there sealed the deal. I loved how she sounded both defiant and utterly lost at the same time and I simply had to know who she was, what was in that book she stole, and why things had gone so badly for her for so long. So, like Claidi, I made up my mind to take the book with me. Only I decided to go ahead and pay for it first.

Claidi is a servant and has been her entire life. In the House of Lady Jade Leaf, she spends her days and nights forced to wait on the ridiculous princess hand and foot. Tempers are short and punishments abundant in the House and Claidi chafes against the ties that bind her, physically and emotionally. One day she comes across an empty book and decides--despite the no doubt painful consequences--that she will take it. It turns into a journal of sorts for the lonely young woman, in which she records her thoughts, and later her adventures. For soon after she discovers the book, a stranger walks inside the walls of the House. A stranger from beyond the desert, with golden hair, and an escape route in his hands. And before she knows it, Claidi is off with the enigmatic Argul on the adventure of a lifetime. Trouble is, she's never quite sure where they are headed or who might be after them. It's a rough and tumble journey, full of misdirection, aborted weddings, and not a little abduction. There are palaces whose rooms refuse to stay put, monstrous creatures, and princes who look too much like people they are not. And all of it leads to the mysterious Wolf Tower, which seems to hold in it the secret of who she is and who she might become. Claidi spends much of the time confused and near panic, but she is a resourceful young woman, and her frequent journal entries chronicle the unfolding story in engaging detail.

These books are a wild ride. Claidi has something of the Tamora Pierce heroine about her. Adventure seems to be in her blood, though she's not quite as devil-may-care in her approach to it as some of Pierce's girls. She is thrust forcefully into the outside world after living an extremely sheltered, though awful, life and having the story told in her own words in journal format brings her quickly into the reader's affections. Her growing relationship with Argul is quite sweet and a bright spot among all the subterfuge. This is another case of people not always being exactly who you think they are and, over the course of the four books, there were several times I came perilously close to washing my hands of most of them. All but Claidi, really. But at the same time it served to cement my loyalty to the main character and remember to question each new character that arrived, which is really not so bad a thing after all. Each book expands on the world they live in and these revelations come as just as much a shock to Claidi as they do to the reader. At times, it can be a bit frustrating to be so in the dark. But the world Lee paints is so foreign, so innately other that I found myself awfully intrigued to find out what particularly rabbit she would pull out of the hat next. There is definitely a strong thread of science fiction running through the fantasy and I found the blend unusual and refreshing. All in all, a highly entertaining series featuring a heroine I never tired of and who becomes much more than she would otherwise have been because she stole a book and took a chance on a stranger. Recommended for fans of Garth Nix and Sherwood Smith.

Reading Order Wolf Tower,Wolf Star,Wolf Queen, and Wolf Wing
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I love this author and especially this novel! Came in perfect shape, like it was new! Arrived on time. Thank you!
Took me forever to find this book! It was one I had started reading in middle school and had just always wanted to find the collection. GREAT condition and awesome value! You have no idea how excited I was when I found this