Fell: Sequel to The Sight

Written by David Clement-Davies

Narrated by Steven Crossley

Best-selling author David Clement-Davies writes "intricately crafted" tales (The Boston Globe) that open new worlds of the imagination to readers everywhere. Fell continues the story begun in The Sight, a story of wolves, dark magic, and an epic struggle between age-old forces. The black wolf Fell now travels alone, padding through the foreboding woods of Transylvania. But then he receives a message from his old eagle friend Skart, and it seems that fate has set Fell's paws on a dangerous path and that grave challenges await him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 24, 2009
• ISBN: 9781436142649

Reviews for Fell

[ctmsjadi · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The Sight, by David Clement-Davies, is about a strong pack of wolves that go on an incredulous journey. The book starts off when you meet all of the members of the pack, who are Hutser, the leader, Palla, Hutser’s mate, Kipcha, Hutser’s sister, Khaz, the beta wolf, the weakest one, Bran, and Brassa, the packs story-teller. Hutser and Palla soon have a litter of cubs, but two of them die. The remaining are named Fell and Larka. Later on in the story you then find out that Larka possess a special gift known as the sight. This power lets the user look into other people’s minds, talk with every kind of animal, and to even take over someone’s body. She first encountered it on her first hunt with her family. When she first attacks a wild deer, she could feel the pain that was going through the deer’s body. She also could see through a bird’s eye that was flying overhead. Later, her whole family found that their home was being attacked by humans and had to make a break for the forest. When the forest was safe, they came out to regroup, but Palla’s evil stepsister Morgra confronted them. She had asked to be apart of their pack, but Hutser had refused and tried to shoo her off. On that note, Morgra put a curse on the pack to kill them off slowly one by one. Frightened by the threat, they turned to Brassa for help. Brassa then told all of them the secret of Morgra. That secret was how she was accidently thought a murderer when she tried to save a wolf cub. She had accidently bitten too hard and killed the cub. Brassa also told the family of the fortuneteller Tsinga, who could help Larka with the sight. As they began to travel to Tsinga, Brassa had died and so the curse began. Khaz, Kipcha, and Bran all died through the journey. Before they had gotten to the fortuneteller and the curse had happened, the pack had met Palla’s brother Skop and their new member Kar. They soon accepted Kar into the pack and made him Larka and Fell’s new brother. After they left the old fortuneteller, who was then killed by Morgra’s Night hunters, they searched for Tsarr and Skart, a wolf and an eagle. The pack was told by Tsinga that they would help Larka master the sight. Soon after they left, they got to a river full of ice. The family had crossed over, but Fell had disappeared throughout the ice. With that the two parents had a massive fight on the ice and Larka and Kar ran away. Larka and Kar had gotten to a large forest when a fire began. The fire separated them and Larka went to find her mentors. She then found them, but they were with a small human baby, which in a prophecy it was said to show the animals the greatest secret of all. She spent a long time with them until she found herself ready to face Morgra, but then she found out that her parents were captured by a pack of reel wolves and were being forced to kill each other. When Larka had gotten to them, the rebel group was in war with Morgra’s night hunters and spectral beings called searchers that were conjured by Morgra. When the fighting was over, the remaining rebels decided to help Larka and face Morgra. When they reached Morgra, Larka found that her brother Fell didn’t die on the ice, but was alive. Although he thought he was a Satan like creature called Wolfbane, Larka managed to wake him from his evil deception. When Larka had faced Morgra, she first looked into the little child’s mind and gave the ultimate vision. It showed that man was an animal also and that its actions could eventually end the world. Soon after that, Morgra pounced at Larka and quarreled with her on a rickety bridge. The bridge failed and crashed to the ground leaving Morgra and Larka dead. Fell and the others managed to escape and mourned for their lost family member. While I read this book, the only thought that came to my mind was wow. All the factors that David Clement-Davies touched about the reality of a human were fantastic. Throughout the story he wrote from another animal’s perspective of who we really are, what we actually do, and how brutal we can be. I also liked the whole religion standpoint in all of it. I say this because I was truly fascinated at the fact that he incorporated the Catholic and Christian religion into the story. For example, in the story all of the wolves believe in two wolf gods, Tor and Fenris, and the daughter of Tor, Sita. The wolves believed that Tor and Fenris created the world and all the wolves all over it, and that Sita was given to the wolves to show them love, but the wolves defiled her and killed her. She then rose again and went back to Tor and Fenris. This resembles the story of Christ and the creation story from the Catholic and Christian Bibles. This just struck me as clever work because there are endless places and twists that you could put in a story because of this, and thus ends my thoughts of this masterpiece.

[nizmart · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A wonderful read for fans of wolf stories, great characters and a great cover!

[booksandwine · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fell was an engrossing read. It is an anthropormorphic tale that is much simpler than Watership Down, yet a little more dark than Redwall. I thought it was an interesting examination of free will vs. destiny. Perhaps I read a bit too much into this book, but it was fantastic YA fiction.

[earthlistener · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A nice sequel to The Sight. While Fell lacks some of the "oomph" of Clement-Davies previous works like "Fire Bringer" and "The Sight" it still was a lovely story and read even though at times the book seemed to be dragging along, with no particular direction. Fell proves to be another thriving work by Clement-Davis. Fell does not stick to the same formula used in The Sight and Fire Bringer. Instead, it borrows some of the elements from these two novels, and introduces a new human element and how humans interact with nature.

[kimmicat · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I liked The Sight and Firebringer more than this book, but it was a good addition to my favorites.

[connor16 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The squel of the sight, it host many of the smae main charecters as the first book but also gives a human look at this world as well.

[midnighttwilight10_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This second book in The Sight series gives another look into the mind of wild wolves. But they're not just ordinary wolves, some have special powers. In this book a wolf --Fell-- has visions and he can see into the minds of animals. This power is exactly the thing that ostracized him from his kind. In Fell he has to use his gift to help a young girl --Alina-- trek through the dangerous forest to find her real home. But not only do the humans want to kill Fell, for "stealing" one of their own, and Alina for secrets unknown. But can they both make it to their homes without being killed in the process?I loved how both this book and The Sight were told through the point of view of wolves. It made the books so original and fascinating. But the wolves seemed very smart, and easy to relate to. The plot of this book keeps you guessing the entire time, and the point of view of the book Fell changes between Fell and Alina, which made the background easier to understand. This book, and The Sight were amazing books that I would recommend to anyone.