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\"51yo0lLCCgL(1)\"<\/a>It’s been a good summer for reading, the weather’s been too awful for much else – although in fact I have worked my socks off the past few months, and there hasn’t been a chance for travel. I thought I’d review some of thew books I’ve enjoyed in the past weeks, and this has been a big favourite. The cover is brilliant and it’s a perfect read for Young Adults who want a book with real\u00a0 edge. Here is writing so clear and cut glass sharp you believe every word. A fantastic story, with plenty of action and drama, but with depth and intensity too.<\/p>\n

Wolf Blood is set in first century Britain, when Roman legions and Celtic tribes were at war. It\u2019s also a world where the old religion of the Druids still has power. This is a world of gods and shapeshifters, where werewolves are as real and deadly as any crack Roman legion.<\/p>\n

Celt Trista is a warrior and seer, an independent and ferocious heroine who can take on any man in battle. On the run from enslavement she meets Morcant, a Roman soldier cut off from his legion, a man who has his own secrets.<\/p>\n

Wolf Blood is a really good, involving read, the battles are fierce and bloody and the paranormal elements read just as real and true.<\/p>\n

I met N.M. Browne and asked her one question about her book, I had loads (including what happend to Trista and Morcant next) but the book is such a brilliantly imagined world I wanted to know which came first, the characters or the world?<\/p>\n

This is what she said…<\/p>\n

Ah the answer isn’t very useful – they always come together!I never write a character without a setting or a place without a person in it. It is also true that I like first century British history so when I started the story of an enslaved woman in a roundhouse I decided that it would take place in the first century. I didn’t know Morcant was going to be a werewolf for some time and I didn’t know about the wild weird for even longer.The woman wasn’t Trista either, but \u00a0someone quite different whose name I’ve forgotten – she was an older woman, a midwife and she escaped with a baby. I didn’t pursue her because I couldn’t easily imagine having adventures with a baby and, as a mother, \u00a0I knew worry about the baby would take over the story.I had almost given up on the idea completely, I had a place and a person but no real plot, when Morcant turned round unexpectedly at the fireside of my mind’s eye and when he flashed his yellow eyes I knew what he was and the story was saved.<\/em><\/p>\n

Readers often imagine writers sitting down and deciding, rather clinically what I will write next, and although I have to admit I have done that myself, sometimes it’s different, just the way Nicky describes it, sort of staring and thinking of nothing and just imagining….<\/p>\n

WOLF\u00a0BLOOD is published by Bloomsbury, \u00a36.99 ISBN 978-1408812556<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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