The Wolves of Midwinter

The Wolf Gift Chronicles, Book 2

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

In Anne Rice's surprising and compelling best-selling novel, the first of her strange and mythic imagining of the world of wolfen powers, readers and listeners were spellbound as Rice conjured up a daring new world set against the wild and beckoning California coast.

Now in her new novel, as lush and romantic in detail and atmosphere as it is sleek and steely in storytelling, Anne Rice takes us once again to the rugged coastline of Northern California, to the grand mansion at Nideck Point, and further explores the unearthly education of her transformed Man Wolf.

The novel opens on a cold, gray landscape. It is the beginning of December. Oak fires are burning in the stately flickering hearths of Nideck Point. It is Yuletide. For Reuben Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift and under the loving tutelage of the Morphenkinder, this promises to be a Christmas like no other...

The Yuletide season, sacred to much of the human race, has been equally sacred to the Man Wolves, and Reuben soon becomes aware that they, too, steeped in their own profound rituals, will celebrate the ancient Midwinter festival deep within the verdant richness of Nideck forest.

From out of the shadows of Nideck comes a ghost - tormented, imploring, unable to speak yet able to embrace and desire with desperate affection …. As Reuben finds himself caught up with - and drawn to - the passions and yearnings of this spectral presence.

Includes the Original Song "Exiles (The Wolves of Midwinter)", Performed by Mary Fahl.

"I devoured these pages . . . As solid and engaging as anything she has written since her early Vampire Chronicles fiction." (Alan Cheuse, The Boston Globe)

"A delectable cocktail of old-fashioned lost-race adventure, shape-shifting, and suspense." (Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post)

©2013 Anne Rice (P)2013 Random House Audio

My Favorite Christmas Book

I listen to this ever year at Christmas. It has become a tradition. I love it.

Great story!

really loved this book and the first. Just sad there was never the third as it was originally part of a trilogy. but still good and I loved the books so much I had to hear the audible versions a few years later :)

Decent werewolf story

Typical Ann Rice in the fact it's a bit wordy but overall a good story. the chapters are likeable and the ambiance is fitting.

Beautifully written 💕

I got hooked on Rice when she wrote the vampire series and several others , but for some reason I got so busy with” life” , I lost track of her writing. I saw The Wolf Gift and knew I had to revisit her work . Needless to say I was not disappointed- these two books were written just as beautifully as all that I’ve read . Keep them coming “Queen of the “unnatural “!!

Great story!!

I love and enjoy all of Anne Rice’s creations!! I’m a 4 decade reader of hers. This is the first time I’ve listened to one of her books on audio. I really loved the story and the characters and their continuation from the Wolf Gift. The only downside, I didn’t enjoy the narration as much. Too many voice fluctuations and it just didn’t flow well for me.

Better than the first

After setting up this new wolf world in the first book, this sequel does not disappoint. The Vampire and Mayfair series seemed to get weaker as the books continued, but this book is far stronger than the first. I am so disappointed that we did not get a third.

Not what I expect from Annie rice.

It's not bad but I expect alot better from her . It just got a little boring. It went on and on about stuff sometimes.

The narrator is a bit slow. I speed it up a bit

This book is better than the first. the narrator was hard at first but I put my settings at 1.30 and I was in a trance.

Narrator has only one voice really, disappointing.

The narrator, NOT terrible, but essentially all the male characters sounded the same. the female characters suffered the same but worse; they sounded like a man reading a woman. Good narrators make you forget that.

The story was slow but still enjoyable. They can't all be the first four in the VC. I'll always enjoy Anne Rich.

Movie???

Omgosh!!! I loved this series!!! She has done again! Of course!! 😏🥰. I would love to see this on Amazon or Netflix!!!! I thought McLarty did an amazing job as narrator! 🤩