{"id":13939,"date":"2023-07-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13939"},"modified":"2023-07-10T06:31:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:31:50","slug":"oracles-prophecy-a-wolfish-connection-danger-by-christiane-m-andrews-mg-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13939","title":{"rendered":"Oracle&#8217;s prophecy, a WOLFISH connection &#8211; danger! by Christiane M. Andrews (MG book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14095\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=14095\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wolfish.webp?fit=705%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"705,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wolfish\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wolfish.webp?fit=705%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wolfish.webp?resize=353%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"book cover of Wolfish, by Christiane M. Andrews. Published by Little Brown | recommended on BooksYALove.com\" class=\"wp-image-14095\" width=\"353\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wolfish.webp?w=705&amp;ssl=1 705w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wolfish.webp?resize=201%2C292&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wolfish.webp?resize=103%2C150&amp;ssl=1 103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In their cave of mists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/humanities\/culture-magazines\/discovering-will-gods-oracles-and-divination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oracle and Apprentice tell the future<\/a>, but young Alba won&#8217;t repeat the waters&#8217; most dismal words to rob poor peasants of a little hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alas, Alba does speak truth to one boy, eleventh in the royal succession and suddenly the new king, about his joyless reign being cut short by his sibling and a beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later visions show her that the king&#8217;s mother soon after birthed twins who were swiftly taken from the palace, yet all are told that her child was stillborn \u2026 where were the king&#8217;s siblings taken?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the mountains, little Rae helps her adoptive parents watch their sheep, growing strong on their love and sunshine and Mop&#8217;s songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the forest, a wolf-child learns to hunt and revel in the scents around him, as furred and swift-running as his litter-mates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the cave entrance, a young priest guarding them at night reluctantly teaches Alba how to write, and she records her vision of the twins for the priests&#8217; library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One day, Rae sings the song she senses in hillside breezes and sees a wolf, whose attack is stopped &#8211; by another wolf! The defending wolf allows Rae to tend his wounds, and somehow they truly see one another\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alba&#8217;s writing is discovered, and she is banished. Now what? Now where?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To her first market day in the town, Rae and her parents go, not knowing that the king ordered all children of the twins&#8217; age &#8211; and hers &#8211; captured!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can Alba and Rae and the wolf escape the king&#8217;s anger and make their own futures come true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lyrical tale of the magic of songs and of being known, seen, loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you want to know your future?<br>**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Book info<\/strong>: Wolfish \/ Christiane M. Andrews. Little Brown, 2022. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmandrews.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">author site<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/christiane-m-andrews\/wolfish\/9780316496063\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their cave of mists, Oracle and Apprentice tell the future, but young Alba won&#8217;t repeat the waters&#8217; most dismal words to rob poor peasants of a little hope. Alas, Alba does speak truth to one boy, eleventh in the royal succession and suddenly the new king, about his joyless reign being cut short by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,50,30,41],"tags":[123,22,7,4,75,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,43,71,38,27,49,184,86,277,15,217,21,57,35,33,6,8,28,273,61],"class_list":["post-13939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-historical","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-adoption","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-magic","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-music","tag-myth","tag-relationships","tag-royalty","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains","tag-wolf","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14097,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions\/14097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}