The Emperor's Wolves

The Wolves of Elantra, Book 1

De: Michelle Sagara

Narrado por: Khristine Hvam

“Enjoyable, entertaining, engaging fantasy.” (Tor.com)

At the Emperor's Command

Multiple races carefully navigate the City of Elantra under the Dragon Emperor’s wing. His Imperial Wolves are executioners, the smallest group to serve in the Halls of Law. The populace calls them assassins.

Every wolf candidate must consent to a full examination by the Tha’alani, one of the most feared and distrusted races in Elantra for their ability to read minds. Most candidates don’t finish their job interviews.

Severn Handred, the newest potential recruit, is determined to face and pass this final test — even if by doing so he’s exposing secrets he has never shared.

When an interrogation uncovers the connections to a two-decade-old series of murders of the Tha’alani, the Wolves are commanded to hunt. Severn’s first job will be joining the chase. From the High Halls to the Tha’alani quarter, from the Oracles to the Emperor, secrets are uncovered, tensions are raised and justice just might be done…if Severn can survive.

The Wolves of Elantra

Book 1: The Emperor’s Wolves

©2020 Michelle Sagara (P)2020 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

Good main characters inside creatively built world

I enjoyed listening to this book. The performance was well-done, with distinct voices for each characters.

My ONLY complaint is that it took a little while to distinguish between character names because they were all long and "different" from what I'm used to. But that's really a "me problem" not an author problem.

I'm looking forward to the next book in the series and would read more series from this author.

Excellent enrichment to the Chronicles of Elanta

Backstory on Severn and his time living in Elantra parallel to Kaylin. Intriguing hints into his history. Slow at times, and too much tease without answers creates some frustration for me. This author gets a bit bogged down in ephemera, as usual.

Severn & the Wolves

Thank you Michelle Sagara for this great addition to the same world as the Chronicles of Elantra. It starts with how Severn Handred became one of the Wolves, one of Elantra's three parts of law enforcement. The book also brings up several of Severn's peculiarities, base knowledge and mysteries surrounding him. Be prepared for several familiar characters to pop up throughout.

Khristine Hvam's narration adds to the story and brings the characters and situations off the page.

Review of the Emperor’s Wolves

Such an excellent book! It has a wealth of info, but I need more! Please give us more info on Severen’s back story! I highly recommend this book & look forward to future issues! TYTY!

Great development of a unique world

I thought this was a great story. While the build seemed so slow I think the world has been uniquely presented and I really appreciate that. Lots of detail and lots of puzzle pieces that don’t come together right away. Worth the wait. Looking forward to the next book.

A+++++++++++++

Yes this is great spinoff of the Elantra series love all the characters and story line was excellent. I love Severen and Kaylan. I was wordering about the wolf lord from original series and great to finally meet him.

severns story

loved this book. we get too see how severn became a wolf. cannot wait for the next in the series. great start.

frequent reader

Good stand alone book, but also fills in back ground from others in the series. enjoyed this book very much.

Interesting pre-log

The narrator was good. However I prefer full cast audios and don’t give five stars to anything but full cast audios. She did the best she could with what she had.A preview to the castin series. Which shows Handreds and how he started with the wolves. If you don’t like the way the writer goes on and on about little facts that seem to have no meaning this will not be a good book for you. if you can put up with the rest of the series it fills in a lot of holes and brings up some interesting topics. however it’s not been fully explained and how he got to where he was a book one of the castin series. This book has lots of walking and talking, some detection, and nearly no action. I wouldn’t suggest listening to this book before the main series.

Exactly what I have been waiting for!

I've always been more interested in Severn's story than anyone else's in this series and this book did not disappoint! It's probably my favorite book written in the Chronicles of Elantra world in years. It brings up even more questions about Severn's past which make him even more interesting. I've listened to it several times already and I can't wait for the next!!
The narration was excellent as always.