Book Descriptions
for Blood for Blood by Ryan Graudin
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A sequel to last year’s Wolf by Wolf, an alternate history in which Germany and Japan were the victors of World War II, shifts among various perspectives but focuses primarily on Yael, Luka Lowe, and Felix Wolf in the aftermath of Yael’s failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. Yael, Luka, and Felix make a dramatic escape from the Germans and are moving across Eastern Europe. Theirs is an uneasy alliance, shadowed by potential treachery. Like the prior volume, this one moves back and forth in time, illuminating moments from the past in each of their lives that shaped their outlook and current motivation. For Felix, that motivation is doing whatever necessary to protect his family. For Luka, somewhat to his surprise, it’s doing whatever is necessary to prove his allegiance to this stranger, Yael, who has been posing as his former lover, Adele Wolf. And for Yael, haunted by her childhood in a Nazi concentration camp from which she escaped, it’s doing whatever is necessary to salvage her mission and save friends in the Resistance who are in danger because of its failure. Tense and terrifically plotted, fans of the first book will be more than satisfied by this conclusion. (Age 13 and older)
CCBC Choices 2017. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
The action-packed, thrilling sequel to Ryan Graudin's Wolf by Wolf.
There would be blood.
Blood for blood.
Blood to pay.
An entire world of it.
For the resistance in 1950s Germany, the war may be over, but the fight has just begun.
Death camp survivor Yael, who has the power to skinshift, is on the run: The world has just seen her shoot and kill Hitler. But the truth of what happened is far more complicated, and its consequences are deadly. Yael and her unlikely comrades dive into enemy territory to try to turn the tide against the New Order, and there is no alternative but to see their mission through to the end, whatever the cost.
But in the midst of the chaos, Yael's past and future collide when she comes face-to-face with a ghost from her past, and a spark with a fellow rider begins to grow into something more. Dark secrets reveal dark truths, and one question hangs over them all--how far can you go for the ones you love?
This gripping, thought-provoking conclusion to Wolf by Wolf will grab readers by the throat with its cinematic writing, fast-paced action, and relentless twists.
"Wild and gorgeous, vivid and consuming. I loved it! I can't wait for the sequel."--Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, on Wolf by Wolf
There would be blood.
Blood for blood.
Blood to pay.
An entire world of it.
For the resistance in 1950s Germany, the war may be over, but the fight has just begun.
Death camp survivor Yael, who has the power to skinshift, is on the run: The world has just seen her shoot and kill Hitler. But the truth of what happened is far more complicated, and its consequences are deadly. Yael and her unlikely comrades dive into enemy territory to try to turn the tide against the New Order, and there is no alternative but to see their mission through to the end, whatever the cost.
But in the midst of the chaos, Yael's past and future collide when she comes face-to-face with a ghost from her past, and a spark with a fellow rider begins to grow into something more. Dark secrets reveal dark truths, and one question hangs over them all--how far can you go for the ones you love?
This gripping, thought-provoking conclusion to Wolf by Wolf will grab readers by the throat with its cinematic writing, fast-paced action, and relentless twists.
"Wild and gorgeous, vivid and consuming. I loved it! I can't wait for the sequel."--Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, on Wolf by Wolf
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