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Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Tribe Novel #2
Silent Striders & Black Furies
At a Concolation called by Karin Jarlsdottir of the Get of Fenris and others, the Garou decided that it was time to learn more about a dangerous Wyrm beast in the heart of Serbia that seems to only be growing stronger. In the Silent Striders portion of this second book of the Tribe Novel series, this foe is sought within the Umbra. In Black Furies, the Garou attempt to gain information in the physical world, and that demands a journey through many blighted lands.
287 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 9, 2001
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84 books20 followersWhite Wolf Entertainment AB, formerly White Wolf Publishing, was an American roleplaying game and book publisher. The company was founded in 1991 as a merger between Lion Rampant and White Wolf Magazine (est. 1986 in Rocky Face, GA; it later became "White Wolf Inphobia"), and was initially led by Mark Rein-Hagen of the former and Steve Wieck and Stewart Wieck of the latter. White Wolf Publishing, Inc. merged with CCP Games in 2006. White Wolf Publishing operated as an imprint of CCP hf, but ceased in-house production of any material, instead licensing their properties to other publishers. It was announced in October 2015 that White Wolf had been acquired from CCP by Paradox Interactive. In November 2018, after most of its staff were dismissed for making controversial statements, it was announced that White Wolf would no longer function as an entity separate from Paradox Interactive.
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June 22, 2018
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The climactic fight at the end of the first part is a bit silly, but the rising action on the series as a whole is wonderfully told.
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The climactic fight at the end of the first part is a bit silly, but the rising action on the series as a whole is wonderfully told.
February 28, 2023
Honestly a very solid entry in the series, that shows the duplicitous nature of Garou.
In both of its stories, the main character is thinking primarily of themselves-- and this plays out in two different ways entirely.
Mephi Faster-Than-Death is sort of a little bitch though.
In both of its stories, the main character is thinking primarily of themselves-- and this plays out in two different ways entirely.
Mephi Faster-Than-Death is sort of a little bitch though.
May 2, 2012
I remember having been disappointed when I first read the Werewolf novels series. Re-reading the second tome, I was reminded why. Both novels fail in their stated or unstated objectives.
The stated objective is to give us the perspective of a representative member of one of the 12 tribes, here the Black Furies (with New Yorker and King Albrecht packmate Mari Cabrah) and the Silent Striders (with Mephi Faster-than-Death, who was a new signature character of the game).
I am sad to say that both characters don't feel real. Maybe it's the novels' format, too short for the writers to expand on their characters' psychology and motivations, but never I really felt any empathy for them. Their reasoning, their motives seem shallow.
The other, unstated, objective was to give the readers an impression of what is the life of a werewolf like. And in this regard the novels are a disappointment. The worst example concerns the Umbra, the spirit world the werewolves can see and enter. Travel in the Umbra is a metaphor, I understand, but the descriptions don't convey any sense of what it is like.
These novels benefit from two strengths, however: the plot has good hooks and it's really interesting that the action takes place in Eastern Europe (even if the characters don't feel like Eastern Europeans but more like Americans). The saddest thing is that in trying to develop a series of novels with one novel for each tribe even when it was not relevant to do so, the authors were too constrained and they couldn't use their otherwise considerable talent.
The stated objective is to give us the perspective of a representative member of one of the 12 tribes, here the Black Furies (with New Yorker and King Albrecht packmate Mari Cabrah) and the Silent Striders (with Mephi Faster-than-Death, who was a new signature character of the game).
I am sad to say that both characters don't feel real. Maybe it's the novels' format, too short for the writers to expand on their characters' psychology and motivations, but never I really felt any empathy for them. Their reasoning, their motives seem shallow.
The other, unstated, objective was to give the readers an impression of what is the life of a werewolf like. And in this regard the novels are a disappointment. The worst example concerns the Umbra, the spirit world the werewolves can see and enter. Travel in the Umbra is a metaphor, I understand, but the descriptions don't convey any sense of what it is like.
These novels benefit from two strengths, however: the plot has good hooks and it's really interesting that the action takes place in Eastern Europe (even if the characters don't feel like Eastern Europeans but more like Americans). The saddest thing is that in trying to develop a series of novels with one novel for each tribe even when it was not relevant to do so, the authors were too constrained and they couldn't use their otherwise considerable talent.
November 12, 2012
Solid. Nothing spectacular but if you love the game and setting, this is engaging.
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