The way Michelle Paver writes some chapters from the animals' point of view is amazing, and this book is full of magic, mystery, friendship and suspense. Still his father forbids him to seek help from the clans and Torak must find his way alone, until he meets an orphaned wolf cub and a girl from the Raven clan called Renn. Torak is the only one who can defeat the bear, and to do so he must take the Nanuak to the Mountain of the World Spirit, a mountain no human has ever been able to find. The bear will continue to kill every living creature in the forest, until, in a month's time, it will be invincible. On his deathbed, his father tells him that the bear was posessed by a demon sent to kill him by an old enemy. But shortly after his 13th birthday, his father is mortally wounded by a gigantic bear. As a cub his fur is grey, but as he matures his pelt molds into a golden grey tinged with white, with gold fur around his shoulders. He grows from a wobbly cub to a young adult over the course of around a year, but stays with Torak and Renn throughout the series of books. Theirs is a terrifying quest in a world of wolves, tree spirits and Hidden People, a world in which trusting a friend means risking your life. Torak lives alone with his father in the forest, and has never been allowed to come into contact with other clans, though he doesn't know why and doesn't really care. Wolf, a wolf, is Torak's guide and adoptive brother. His only companion is a wolf cub only three moons old, whom he seems to understand better than any human. It's set in prehistoric north-western Europe, in a world of hunter-gatherers, endless forests, superstition and magic. This is my favorite book off all - I've read it four times!
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