The Wolves of London is a cracking read and I can see the potential for this to be a great start to a series. However, this book isn’t brilliant and sags a bit in the middle which is why I didn’t give it five stars. I understood the purpose of the obsidian heart a lot more thanks to this book and some knowledge gaps have been filled. He’s pretty flawed and struggles to do the decent thing. I really like Alex at first, a bit more than I did in The Wraiths of War. The Wolves of London is quite a dark book and made me flinch at times. Overall, this is a good read quite fast paced, lots of drama and action and reasonably well developed characters. A lot of the questions I had after reading the last book in the trilogy, The Wraiths Of War are answered and I understand the characters and what’s going on a bit more. I thought The Wolves of London was great. The inside of the car was rank with the smell of sweat, testosterone and baked leather. Which was ironic, because it was the height of summer, 32 degrees in the shade. So scared that I had to clench my teeth to stop them from chattering. I was nineteen years old and scared to death.

Soon he discovers the heart can enable him to travel through time, and while it bestows him with his own dark powers, it also corrupts. After he agrees to steal a mysterious Obsidian Heart, Locke is pursued by unearthly assassins known as the ‘Wolves of London’. Psychology professor Alex Locke is an ex-convict, forced back into the criminal underworld when his daughter is threatened. The publisher sent me a copy of this book after I reviewed Wraith of War and I voluntarily reviewed it. to “pull back from treating China as an adversary.” In the Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and Asian-American studies professor Janelle Wong argue: “When officials express fears over China or other Asian countries, Americans immediately turn to a timeworn racial script that questions the loyalty, allegiance and belonging of 20 million Asian Americans.” Journalist Peter Beinart warns that “if America’s leaders are serious about combating anti-Asian violence” at home, “they must stop exaggerating the danger that the Chinese government poses.The Wolves Of London (Obsidian Heart #1) by Mark Morris

But its factual basis is doubtful.Ĭolumbia University historian Mae Ngai wants the U.S. Images: KeystoneSTF//AFP/Getty Composite: Mark Kellyĭoes criticism of China imperil Asian-Americans? A rash of recent commentary in the wake of last month’s shootings in Atlanta that killed eight people, six of them Asian women, makes that claim. Main Street: A new generation is getting a hard lesson that Communists are real, as are the lies and violence necessary to keep them in power.

The Obsidian by Janelle Wong